[chainsoar]

All of the above posters have pretty much captured the jist of what I would've otherwise posted here (saves me a lot of typing :P), but I would add one thing - the kids who are sheltered excessively from violence in movies/video games/TV are in fact more likely to turn out weird than kids who aren't. It stands to reason - a kid who is sheltered from gory movies, violent video games and so on, grows up, and gets his first taste of fake violence - he'll either be so shocked and disturbed by it that he could even become mentally unbalanced, or he'll absolutely love it, having been shielded from it in the past, leaving the door open for him to become a total gore munching maniac, on a quest to seek out the violence he missed out on. The way to deal with violence in movies, Tv and video games is not to shelter children from it, but to allow them access to it, BUT - and this is a big but (tee hee) - you have to make them understand it's not real. Then you will have raised a truly balanced child.