@danielwd @Tuckpoint Eh, my sons been playing CoD for a few years actually. The parts of it I do not like him to play are the single player campaigns actually. There are some violent things there I don't think are appropriate. I believe it was Black Ops 1 that had the scene where you strangle the life out of the main bad guy. Luckily he's mostly interested in multiplayer and zombies. Also, if you missed it, I played violent video games as a pre-ESRB teenager. Including all Mortal Kombat games and other gore laden violent games.

Had to sign up to comment on this. So sick of seeing the comments section filled with teenagers and young twenties calling parents stupid for buying their child the newest CoD. As a 35 year old, father of three and life-long video game enthusiast, I feel I have a good source of reference on what constitutes a violent video game. My son does not play MY mature games with my permission. Even though that rule exists I have still had talks with him about the difference between fiction and reality.

My son does however play CoD, and while I don't find the franchise entertaining (outside of playing the occasional zombie map with a buddy), my household owns each and every edition of the game. I find it a much less violent game than the ones I played as a young teenager. Other older gamers can confirm, DOOM1 & 2, UTs and the like are where gamers started using words like GIBBED. CoD doesn't even have any blood. While it is far more graphical than those old games, I still find it acceptable for my 14 yr old son.

In my opinion this very small sample used for this study is in no way scientific. I find it more likely the person choosing the adults to poll for this study hand picked people that would give them the answers they desired (I can picture them questioning the elderly coming out of a church what they thought about it). The ESRB is easily understood by anyone that plays videos games. The video games cause real life violence has been studied in the past, multiple times. Just about every talk show host has done a show on it, even Penn & Teller did a bit on their Showtime series, 'Bullshit'. If you would like to do more redundant research to find out that mentally unstable people shouldn't be given weapons or fantasies that include weapons, DO IT WITH YOUR MONEY. Stop wasting tax payer dollars on what should be common sense.