My apologies to everyone. If you go back and read my posts, you will see this was not meant to be some political agenda on my part. I had a knee jerk reaction to something, and at the time I felt in support of the petition. Some of the comments made here have broadened my understanding of the issue, but have also set off some petty responses of their own. I am not against video games or violent content. I already said that. I do not point to violence on tv and in video games, etc., as the root cause for people going out and killing other people. So, please do not put words in my mouth. In fact, you will find that I support almost every comment made here. My reaction to the game was not based on any of the reasons others have cited in defense of the industry. What shocked me was the "thrill kill" aspect. I find this offensive. I know many of you do not. But some folks do not have a problem with child pornography either, yet collectively most of us do and we do not allow or encourage such things. I question the wisdom in allowing certain antisocial patterns of behavior to become mainstream concepts. The random killing of people with no provocation other than "its fun" is one such ideas that I found a bit disturbing. That is what lead to my post. Again, I apologize if this offended people here who feel violence of any kind in these games was being attacked. To me there is a difference between playing a game where you engaging in fantasy violence as competiton and pit your skill against another, or the computer, and a game in which you get your kicks by random slaughter of people like deer caught in your headlights.