Video Games = Society's Scapegoat

Here is an interesting article, talking about how video games are taking too much blame for the "downfall" of society lately. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10005871-17.html I agree with the author, video games are taking way to much blame for things. We are going after video games like GTA IV because a couple of kids have re-enacted the game. Most recently a kid in Thailand killed a taxi cab driver because he saw it in GTA IV and emulated it in real life. Now dont get me wrong I am not advocating games like GTA IV in any way but we put a bit to much blame on video game producers for these games. The game is rated M for Mature. That means that it is intended for people 17 and up. That means that if it is getting into the hands of anyone other than 17 year olds and up the PARENTS are buying the game for their kids. Parents are the ones that need to step up in this country. Parents nowadays seem to try and push the responsibility to everyone but themselves. The schools are supposed to teach our kids, the government is supposed to regulate the movies and video games, the schools are supposed to watch what our kids eat, the list goes on. The video game violence while it may be more "realistic" today than it has been ever before, it still falls short in comparison to most movies. The violence in Saving Private Ryan which came out in 1998 thats 10 years ago far outways the realism of the violence in GTA IV or any other of the "violent" video games of today. I think that video games get a bad rap because a few people out of the MILLIONS that play video games dont have enough sense to realize, or havent been taught by their parents, that video games arent real they are make believe and what you can do in a video game you cant and shouldnt be doing in real life. In real life if you get shot you cant just keep right on going and heal yourself with a health pack just down the road. So Thailand's response to the killing of the taxi cab driver was to stop the sales of GTA IV, wouldnt the better response be to put a call out to parents to actually do some, i dont know, PARENTING?