Maybe the world would be no poorer without violent video games, but I can guarantee it would be no better. I'll tell you what would make for a better world--no more lazy, interfering pundits and policy makers, who's lack of imagination makes them sieze the nearest available scapegoat instead of actually tackling real problems.

Oh, and I'd like to add to aqualifier to my last comment. It would be a poorer world without such games, because any ill-considered and reactionary censorship impoverishes us all.

This sort of over-reaction from people is normal in cases like this and will only fuel the demand for games/movies of the violent nature if a ban is put in place. Unless Germany totally also bans the access of youths to gamesites on the web, the knowledge and demand for games will still be there. And if theres a will theres a way.

The way to go is education and at the end of the its hugely down to parents and supervision. Also some people are just not built with all parts intact, guess thats something we need to come to accept.

To put all this into perspective: i got some aggresive feelings by listening to Chris Cornells new single. Could that be singled out as a reason if i went on a rampage. Hope not.

But only because I don't live there :). I think it'd be an interesting experiment to see what happens. To see if people actually care enough to get it overturned, or if they'll just sit there and do nothing.

I reckon they’ll sit there and do nothing, as that’s what gamers do these days according to certain posters. No need to worry as we will all die an early death before our voice’s get herd anyway! :)

If your banning games then please also ban films, books, tv, magazines, history lessons, etc. Germany already has stricter controls than a lot of the rest of the world and this occurance still happened. My best assumption from that signifcant fact is that games are not the problem. The police are using a scapegoat otherwise the state has to face the facts that there are still people out there who are mentally unstable and thats far too much effort!

Just a thought, but if the Germans banned guns instead of games then no-one would have the (legal) right to own that murder weapon... Course that won't stop the small number of illegal firearms as people still get shot in the UK, but if they can't open Dad's gun cabinet to go on the rampage it might lessen the chances of it occuring again...

ive heard all this before, same old knee jerk reaction of the mob with the torches and pitch forks "ban the computer games, they're Evil!" i wanted to research on marketing violent computer games, but you cant because Google just throws up a million and one pages like this!

I don't know much on this - only that Germany is particually draconian when it comes to game; but surely its against the constitution - or freedom of speech - to completely ban these games? What do the German...or for that matter European courts have to say on the matter?

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