“Two Alberta teenagers who killed a family’s cat in a microwave - a crime that drew outrage from animal lovers around the world - have been banned by a judge from owning animals for at least two years. They’re additionally barred from owning or playing violent video games for the next year. According to court-ordered psychological assessments, video games were not found to have directly encouraged the boys’ actions. But barring their access to such games was nonetheless a recommendation put forward in the assessments.”

- Canwest News Service

So let me get that straight…a psychologist decided that video games were not involved in that horrible crime, but the teens are still banned from violent video games? I mean, whether they aren’t old decent to play what they were playing, that is just fine. I am just not certain what video games really have to do with that story, or why a ban was needed.

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