Video games have been talked about a lot in the last week or two of class and that's what I'd like to hit on here. Before learning about some of the research for video gaming and children, my immediate thoughts were that it doesn't do anything. I grew up a kid playing violent video games, and I consider myself a very reserved person, keeping my emotions away from things, and hardly ever becoming physical. But once we started looking into the research of video games, it made me question just how much was this because of the actual video games themselves, or was it because my parents let me play video games in a manner which still allowed me to grow into a non-violent human being. After watching the video's of Barney and the Power Rangers, I was swung to believe that although some kids like myself aren't as violent, some violence is inevitable when playing these video games, especially at a younger age. The mom of the little girl who was sitting in the corner while the rest of the kids were acting like power rangers, stated that her daughter would never do that, yet sure enough, after some time...it happened. This goes to show that there are factors in which one will become violent, and video games and media are not the only factor. Parental supervision and peers acting a certain way can change one's behavior. Overall, it is a very hard subject to prove, but also very entertaining to hear different points on. 
Video Games and their impact
I'm right there with you on the position of violent video games. Much like you and a lot of kids, I grew up playing video games like Halo and Call of Duty and still do occasionally. But I have never been an aggressive person, except maybe for with my twin brother. I think the behavior of peers has the biggest influence on young children, not violent video games.
I think people are blowing the violent video games dispute out of control. Not as many children are violent as they think. Besides, if the kids do act upon it, they can't expect kids to be perfect angels all the time. Everyone has some sense of violence within them I think, many just don't show it.
I believe that it is your peers influence on you whether or not you will take on these violent characteristics as well. Also in a lot of the studies that they showed to us in class the kids would watch others behaving violently before they would then begin those aggressive actions. Like you said it is hard to know for sure where the aggressive behavior may be stemming from but I don't believe video games are really going to change a mild tempered child into an aggressive/violent child.
The way video games effects kids has so many variables to check like parental supervision, the environment the child is how influential they are and more. I think that for the power rangers and barney it was a lot of group pressure to go into those motions and yes there will be a child who starts it all but that might create a snowball effect to drag everyone else into it too.
I agree that video games have an affect on behavior, but I believe that our behavior can only be affected so easily up until a certain age. While we were watching the power ranger clip in discussion I came to realize that my little brothers up until they were around the ages of 6 and 7 were always imitating cartoons that had fighting in it. In movies were familiar compassion is shown (Barney) children seem to be less intrigues by it because it's something that they've seen before. New is always more exciting! which would explain the outbreak in the classroom. I'm not saying that the calm and familiar is bad, I'm just pointing out that the more unusual behavior is much more noticeable than the unexpected.
I agree with the comments stated above. Maybe violent video games have somewhat of an impact on children being violent, but there is no way to prove that. I also believe that we should look at the other factors as well, like who children are interacting with.
I have heard a lot on video games effecting how one acts especially when they are violent. Much like our discussions Power Ranger video we as humans imitate what we see. Although with age usually comes reservation some violent acts are inevitable because we have seen violent things. Or perhaps violence is in our nature. if one has never viewed a violent thing will they ever themselves be violent?
Although I haven't played violent video games as a child, I became more exposed to them in high school and college. I still view myself as a more reserved person and don't believe playing violent video games has increased my outward aggression. However, I do believe that playing video games did desensitize me to violence of that nature. Prior to playing violent video games, I used to be a little put off by the sounds of shooting guns and blood spatter, but slowly became accustomed to it as i began to play more.
Video games and violence seem to be seen in the media a lot. I think there is an error of correlation vs causation. I played violent video games as a child, and I haven't turned out to be a violent person. I think that when someone performs a violent act, people blame the violent video games instead of the person. The amount of people that play violent video games is enormous, so it's bound to have some violent people in the player-base.
I feel like studies done of how violent video games/shows effect children are completely useless. There are so many confounding variables its unbelievable. I feel as if some of these studies are only trying to find the results they want to find. I almost seem video games and violent shows are used as scapegoats for parents to use. Parents like to find anything they can to place blame on for their child's misbehavior.
I think the impact on people is differernt considering many differernt factors, such as age, knowledge, background. It is ture that children will tend to be influence more. Although there are people believe that play it in a good way won't have a negative impact, I don't agree it considering my own experience. I know there is some movie that are forbidden to see. Dose it prove that video game has big impact on people, doesn't it?
I completely agree with your position on violence and videogames. I grew up playing games of all sorts with friends, even Grand Theft Auto, and not once did I find myself inclined towards being violent. I also believe that video games are almost helpful when it comes to violence; if it weren't for some sort of exposure to it, children would be very sheltered and would not know what other people were capable of until experiencing it themselves. Also, a lot of violent scenarios in games are extremely dramatized and unrealistic.