I think everyone is is entitled to their opinion, however there have been massive amounts of "legitimate" studies which show that video games do not promote violence, and if anything actually lower it. Everyone has thier advocacy groups who come up with stats however there was a multi year study done at Harvard, yes the Harvard, which actually put to rest a lot of the complaints. Actually going as far with providing the statistics that as video game sales have risen since 1993, the amount of violence amongst youths is actually declining. In all actuality anyone who uses video games as an excuse is doing just that, coming up with an excuse. I am always of the mindset that parenting is the core of instilling the right values into your childrens mind, and using video games or what is shown in movies is just a cop out.
As an example...as a child I had, water guns, cap guns, BB guns, played laser tag, played video games with guns, even went hunting with my dad. 20 years later I don't own a gun, I don't want one in my house, or have a remote thought of violence in my mind. I am sure there are tons of people out there with similar backgrounds and similar results, so all those theories are just excuses and nothing more.
I am sure many feel differently than I do, but I just get fed up with how people are so quick in society to blame things today rather than taking responsibility. (Note: comments are not directed to anyone here, just my rant on the softening of society)
Personally I feel that aside from marraige and drivers licenses there should be parenting licenses put in place as well.
This all reminds me of something funny Chris Rock once said....we don't need gun control, we need Ammo Control. It isn't the gun that is the problem. If it cost someone $10000 for one bullet, they would sure make sure who they were going to shoot was worth it.
Ok off my soapbox for now.....at the end of the day I don't even think these things look like Storm Troopers but rather direct rip offs of Master Chief, the main character in the popular XBOX series Halo. That was the first thing I noticed and said, "ahh another item pulled right from another popular game, here we go again!"
Lastly as these topics come up on the forum....just a love for how they can be debated rationally and maturely....Go NoBS!