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Education. The American Medical Association has stated "Media violence is America's number one health care emergency." The AMA, the APA, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Attorney General, the Surgeon General, and the United Nations (in a major UNESCO study) have all linked violent visual media with violent behavior. In the United States, per capita aggravated assault has gone up almost sevenfold since 1957. (You must use assault to gauge the problem since medical technology saves ever more lives every year.) In Canada the assault rate has gone up fivefold since 1964. In the 15 years between 1977 and 1993, the per capita "serious assault" rate went up approximately fivefold in Norway and Greece, fourfold in Australia and New Zealand, tripled in Sweden, and doubled in seven other European nations including England. Media violence is the only common factor in all these nations and every major national and international medical and scientific body that has studied this issue has identified the effect of media violence on kids as a key factor in this virus of violence. Parents must be educated about the risks posed to their children by media violence. Psychologically speaking, violence is the single most toxic substance any person can take in, and parents must be educated about the desperate need to protect their kids from this toxic substance.
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High-larious - misusing the context of 'media'!
Again, until you can show me some empirical data to support any sort of 'conditioning' theory; until you can draw direct conclusions between violent video games and violent behavior; until you can discount the influences of things like TV news, 'copycat' pscyhological behavior, or other generalized societal/social influences; and until you can prove that the connections he's drawing aren't causation/correlation fallacies, this guy's diatribes are a joke.
As you read this mishmash of garbage, you're simply crushed over the face with logical fallacies, whether they be correlation fallacies, false analogies, or irrational leaps from unlike elements to known examples. "Specious" doesn't even begin to describe it.