Saying that children cannot tell the difference between video game violence to real life violence is an insult to human intelligence as a whole. There is no evidence that becoming Desensitized to video game violence causes violent tendencies in real life.
No evidence? What about the "coincidence" that most of the recent mass shooters spent most of their time playing violent video games?
Children are much more impressionable than adults, and they can't always tell the difference between games and real life. Besides, we are talking about young adults with mental problems, who obviously translate their video games into real life.
Correlation does not mean causation. I bet most of these people also watched movies, read, watched the news, exercised, and ate. Would you also argue that these things cause violence? I agree, these people had a mental disorder. But don't blame the video games for making them violent. They would have probably been violent without video games. You cannot use these mass murders as real scientific evidence. Real scientific evidence can only be obtained through a series of controlled experiments that are repeated to such a degree that it is overwhelmingly clear that the evidence is true, and from that we can use basic logic and reasoning to put together evidence to form eventually form a theory. Even then the evidence could still be proven false, which is why its called a theory. Do you not understand how the scientific method even works?
Furthermore, the original poster
was talking about children. Not young adults. Just because other people started to talk about the recent mass murders doesn't automatically mean that's what this thread is about.