I'm pretty sure if I started doing meth, I'd be worse off than were I smoking.
Sure. But doing meth (and stabbing) are both illegal, unlike smoking and violent video games.I would think Alcohol is probably more dangerous than smoking, and certainly more so than violent video games.
As an example, there's a shooter (forget the name, soon to be released) where the producer explained how you can shoot someone in the neck and they'll stumble about bleeding. Or you can blow off a limb.
If you for real shoot someone in the neck, they wouldn't be doing much stumbling about, and unless you had a tank gun, there's no way you could possibly apply enough pressure to a limb (like say an arm or a leg) to actually physically tear it off. While a close range shotgun blast is likely to cause severe trauma and tissue damage, it's it's not going to actually dismember someone. I think you could say "games don't kill people, people kill people".
Well you could, but that would sound too much like you're one of those NRA nuts, and I think most people would expect a more sophisticated response than that from a gamer. :o> God help us if we are ever invaded, adults of the future will instinctively pick a nice bunch of flowers and sing PC songs in an attempt to pacify the maurauding, bloodlusting horde.
Well it's a good thing that we are the marauding bloodthirsty horde then, isn't it? Of course it's probably not going to sit too well with the Jack Thompsons of the world but, General Sir Francis Richard Dannatt appraising the "Playstation Generation" for their partial prowess isn't exactly helping the situation.