playing sports is way better than sitting at home and playing video games

Now your first argument states that video games change a person, well that is not true the percentage of violence is the same in both game playing and non-game playing individuals. What does 13 hours of gaming a week have to do with anything it is simply 111.428571 minutes a day which amounts to 1.85714285 hours a day who cares. Your 65% chance that it is a violent video game is irrelevant beacuse of what I said about the percentages of violence being the same, and if violence is their isn't the simple fact that we show violence on T. V. , in history textbooks, and insistently in the News just as bad, I am quite certain that you do not see it that way so your facts still remain pointless. Fights in school tend to have no basis upon the games they play it has mostly to do with how they are being raised, and other situations but video games do not play any true part within the origins of the bully behavior. Finally what does the movie Saw have to do with anything (or the game they made from it) it does not show you how to build those contraptions of death, it does not show you how to do anything of that nature and the fact still remains it does not show your child how to commit those heinous actions and it is more likely to give people nightmares than to make hem go around in a pigs mask and put them in a room with a tape cassette and tell them "You have one hour to cut off your leg if you want to live". . http://www.associatedcontent.com... . http://www.switched.com... . http://arstechnica.com... . http://www.thebluebanner.net... . http://www.geeknewscentral.com... . http://southeastpsych.blogspot.com... . http://childbehaviourtips.com... . http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com... . http://www.xbox360achievements.org... . http://www.salon.com... For your second argument I would like to inform you that I already know not all parents are caring, but my points from the previous paragraph still remain that the amount of violence remains the same for both parties. The parents also can go right up to the register and ask for about what the ratings mean, read the back label of the game that will elaborate the meaning of the rating as well as give a description of the game contents, and they can simply go to the ESRB website for rating information. Only a minority of parents are not actively involved in their children's lives. The point remains that parents still retain the ultimate control over the games they play. . http://www.unmarried.org... . http://atomsfamily.net... . http://www.mhea.com... . http://www.esrb.org... . http://www.freedomfromfear.org... . http://www.aboutourkids.org... Your 3rd argument coincided with what I had said that you do not need to pay sports to get physically fit. I never said they had to go to gyms at school they can go to any gym available, and I also said that they did not need a gym they can simply jog around. Also remember the fact that many ids have parents which will not let their kids go outside and play sports, and that some kids have so much work to do that they cannot take time out of their schedules to play sports. What is this I hear about you saying they are too young to be interested in their careers it is never too early for one to be interested in their career which will effect how they will live for the rest of your life. Remember that the majority of people who spends time playing video games do not spend all of their time eating, and if one wants to be physically fit they will attempt to do so it makes no sense to force them and if the parents want them to be fit then they will make them exercise. Also now more than ever I would like to point out a series of reasons children no longer go outside as much: they can live in a bad neighborhood in which it is safer to stay inside than outside, too much work at school, horrible weather conditions, too many extracurricular activities, parents are too strict, they have many household chores that need completion, etc . . . etc . . . . http://www.quintcareers.com... . http://career-advice.monster.com... . http://www.nsls.info... . http://www.aicpa.org... . http://focusonyourfuture.org... . http://www.collegenet.com... . http://sweet_stuffva.tripod.com... . http://www.cmt.com... . http://www.parenting.com... . http://www.ehow.com... . http://today.msnbc.msn.com... . http://www.experienceproject.com... . http://www.whitehutchinson.com... . http://boingboing.net... . http://articles.latimes.com... . http://www.nwf.org... For your IV argument I want to know a 17% increase since when, you make no elaboration upon the argument hence I say that it bears no weight. Another thing is that video games do not show you how to jack a car the simply show people doing it but never in enough detail to teach you to hijack the car, if a kid truly wanted to learn to jack a car all they have to do is read a basic car design book or look it up on the internet as well as take a basic automotive course at school so don't even bother blaming the game in this regard. Research shows that people who pay video games are no more aggressive than those that don't so that argument also remains futile. You also show no direct link to that child who stole a car and the presence of video games so how does it bear any weight in the regards of your argument, the quick answer is that it doesn't. Last I need to point out that simply beacuse violence in schools are on the rise that does not mean that video games are the culprit there is more of a link between parent,monetary, and social situations and crime in schools than video games in this subject. So in the end your arguments are simply subjective generalization and scapegoating on video games. . http://www.bitmob.com... . http://www.pbs.org... . http://boards.ign.com... . http://www.megaessays.com... . http://www2.uwstout.edu... . http://www.vancouversun.com...= I would like to point out one more thing , I never said that "Crime rate since video games have ben out" nor have I ever implied that all I had stated is that violence has been around since the dawn of civilization and that video games have nothing to do with it.