American society has long associated violent crimes committed by young people, such as school shootings, with violence in entertainment, such as video games and movies. Many news stations today that run these stories link violent video games as the No. 1 reason young criminals did what they did, and a surprising number of Americans believe it: About 55 percent of American adults believe it. In contrast, there is no irrefutable evidence linking violent crimes to violence in entertainment; in reality, analyzes say that while the amount of violent video games and films has increased, violent crime among young people has decreased. Beyond that, all the “evidence” supporting the connection to juvenile crime and video game sales is all circumstantial. Violent media does not match violence among America's youth; parental locks are present in today's electronics and statistics say that the relationship between video game sales and juvenile crime is absent; the problem is not minors: the problem is the media. After the Supreme Court's decision on whether or not to pass a California law that...