I would love to get into a lengthy discussion on this, but instead I'll just say the cold hard truth on the matter:

Whether you want to look at it scientifically or spiritually, there are good people and there are bad people.

There are mentally disturbed people and there are mentally healthy people.

If you are a normal, decent human then you would never burn anyone next to you with gasoline claiming to turn them into a fire mage.

I'm sorry, but even when I was five years old I was watching violent material on television, movies and games... the worst thing I might have ever done was hit my older sister with a stick claiming to have been wielding a light saber. I still knew the difference between right and wrong, on the larger scale that any cognoscente human should. I was never stupid or mentally disturbed enough to light someone on fire or do something that could potentially kill them.

It IS the influence of video games that drives these sick, disturbed people to kill, but it is also TV and movies that drive this fascination as well. Why? because sick, self indulgent people feed the feelings that already exist inside of them. They dwell on these things and want to make them a reality, almost like a fetish. Let's face it, no matter how much anyone wants to deny or hide it, we all have twisted thoughts. We all have an inherit "need" to consume and "take" everything around us. It is the good people that shut out these thoughts. That being said, however, anyone who takes pleasure in the idea of taking something as precious as a good human life should seek mental help.

It isn't entertainment that should be chastised. We shouldn't try to blame these things or the people that create them. There will always be bad people and bad people will always take these forms of entertainment too far. We shouldn't have to censor our human creativity just because there are strange, sick people in the world that would take the ideas too far.