You could say the same things about movies

Aside from the interactivity, there is no difference here between video games and movies:

It's my firm belief that after a while the same physiological responses occur that occur in the ingestion of some drugs. And I believe that an addiction to these games can do the same thing. The dopamine surge, the stimulation  of the nucleus accumbens - the same as an addiction. Such that when you stop, your brain won't stand for it.

The other dangerous thing about these games, in my opinion, is that when these changes occur, they occur in an environment that is delusional. Because you can shoot these aliens, and they're there again the next day. You have to shoot them again. And I firmly believe that Daniel Petric had no idea, at the time he hatched this plot, that if he killed his parents, they would be dead forever.

This judge and PajamasMedia contributor Laura Goldman (Ms. John Walker Lindh was a confused 20 year old child in the wrong place, at the wrong time) should get together and write a parenting book. He may have been delusional, or actually rather psychotic, but her certainly had deliberate malice of forethought sufficient to allow him to go get the key to his dad's lockbox, take out the game and his dad's gun, load the gun, find his parents and commit a serious violent crime against them.