[nc17]

A link is not enough, you'd have to show causation. If not, you might as well be banning the sale of umbrellas because they are linked to rain.

That's the main weakness in the study, btw. It could well be that kids who are prone to violence are more attracted to violent games.

[civilian]

That hypothesis, that violent kids are drawn to violent video games, was the hypothesis that the study was testing against! Read the abstract.