Teenage violence

The violence among teen in last couple of years has increased at alarming rates. Some people beleieve that this due to the fact the video games of today are so violent, but you have others that say we just live in a violent world. The Game association say they don't force anyone to play their games and they don't force people to do anything they wouldn't do normally they beleive it is the choice of the people to play their games , and it is their choose on if they repeat what goes on in the game or if they just preform a act of violence. Their are also a few people that beleieve that the fact that we are at war give kids the mind set that violence in general is ok. We have ti realize that everything in the world affect everyone maybe all these thing contributed to all of this but then maybe again none of them may have contributed to this at all. People are not forced to do any thing they have their own mind and they can make their own choices. How do you feel about this why do you think the teen violence rate is going up.