My point is, if parents don't know what their children are doing, it's their fault. A 13 year old, holed up in his room playing GTA for hours on end, is basically parental negligence. Parents use TV, video games, and to a large extent, school, as child care. This is wrong. Parents should be spending more time with their children, watching what they do. No parent is going to be able to keep their kids from doing bad stuff on the sly, but just allowing them to play games nonstop without some supervision or control is just asking for problems. Not just "potential" violent behavior, but scholatic performance and social growth can also suffer.

As a society, we need to realize that parenting is work. We can't just use new technology to keep kids occupied so that parents can go off and do things they are interested in. Active role, that sort of thing. And nothing the government regulates in the market is going to change this mindset, the society must do that for themselves. The best the gov can do is make parents financially and criminally responsible for the misdeeds of their children.