srsly plz someone kill Dr. Phil

[A Black Falcon]

And that's where parents come in. Pretty easy, huh? You'd think so anyway, but history pretty much proves the opposite.

CNN (or CNNHN?) had this guy on who shot people in school at age 16. Didn't catch his name. He said that he was angry at people in school and had been bullied and stuff and thought that shooting people would solve all his problems and was confusing videogames and reality and didn't realize that people died after just getting shot a few times unlike a videogame where you have to hit them again and again... of course, he was in jail convicted of whatever it was he did, so who knows how true that actually is, but it's what he said.

Anyway, yes, for people who already have problems, videogames can't help. But do they create problems all on their own? No. People (parents, schools, etc) just need to be more vigilant for warning signs and need to get help for people who need it.

How do they even know if Cho the shooter in virginia owned a console or played a PC FTS?

They don't. At that point, they knew nothing at all about the guy; no proof of any kind was needed for the 'it was videogames' thing to start up... we still don't know if he played any games, actually, just that he had problems, wrote disturbing stories (he was an English major), etc.