It is staggering the lengths people will go to lay blame elsewhere.

I knew he was playing the video games but we didn't really know what went on in them, how brutal and graphic they were.

Indifference to your child's activities cannot be blamed on an entertainment medium.

he donned a long dark wig, sunglasses and jacket from the ‘killing kit' he had spent 10 months amassing on eBay. He then headed out with a large hunting knife.

and

police discovered that, before the murder, Harling spent days on the internet talking to paedophiles and researching serial killers

So the internet supplied the research and the materials, where is the outrage against the internet?

"Stuart never gave us any reason to think he was violent at all. He was a very normal boy—quiet and reserved.

Except that he was playing violent games and the using the internet to research serial killers and purchasing the equipment necessary to mimic them

People often cannot accept the blame when it is to be found on their doorstep. Used to be comic books, then it was science fiction, then it was music, and now its Harry Potter. Ignorant people just like to have something to point their finger at (besides themselves).