Do Violent Video Games Cause People?

The article “Do Video Games Kill” written by Karen Sternheimer responds to one of the most sought-after question; are video games the cause for “young killers”? (220) Sternheimer believes the influence of video games on today’s youth maybe spiraling out of control. She focuses most of the blame on the media, politicians and the Juvenile Justice System. Sternheimer suggests that there are other factors to blame for violent behavior: poverty, the neighborhood, unemployment, family violence, divorced parents and mental illness (218). While juvenile crimes have declined, and personal backgrounds effect actions, it cannot be proven that video game violence has no to little effect on America’s youth.

Why Violent Video Game Cause Bad Behavior Have you ever wondered what violent video game do to our little bitty brains? Violent video gamess cause many mass shootings also violent video games encourage more violence. Lastly it desensitizes people to real life violence. Games like grand theft auto and call of duty. In this essay You will see my Claims on why video games are violent.

People, especially children, reenact the media’s material, causing bullying, absent mindedness, and even school shootings. Violence on the internet, video games, movies, and TV has led to more aggression in people. The viewing of violent video games causes kids to become bullies. The viewing of violent video games causes kids to get used to playing them, and act more violently in real life. “The

In October 1975, Gacy’s new wife, Carole, asked for a divorce. Not long after his divorce was finalized in March 1976, Gacy kidnapped and killed 18 year old Darrell Sampson. Just five weeks later, 15 year old, Randall Reffett was reported missing. Then, just a few hours after Randall went missing, 14 year old Samuel Stapleton also went missing. Both Randall and Samuel were found buried in Gacy’s crawl space.

The more kids play violent video games, the less time they spend doing more productive things. One in every five adolescents could be classified as pathologically dependent on video games. Dr.Anderson conducted a study that involved 225 college students aged 18 to 25. His study had students with a history of game-playing and students with little to no history in game-playing. The study showed that the students that had the history of game playing scored lower marks in school and

Also, kids who play violent games are being “exposed” to what war may be really like. Although video games may be a bit more dramatic than real-life war, teens will discover strategies to fight, and hide. Video games are a highly beneficial activity for youths everywhere, and they should be kept. According to the article, (Mohammadi 2014) “How online gamers are solving science’s biggest problems”, in 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years, yet the gamers had solved it in three weeks.

At the time this was the deadliest highschool massacre. It sparked huge debates over the safety of schools, gun violence, as well as blaming violent video games. On April 16th, 2007  Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people at Virginia Tech. The aftermath of the shooting consisted of huge settlements, lawsuits, and fines paid by virginia tech until 2014. On December 14th, 2012 Adam Lanza shot his way into Sandy Hook Grade school.

Bad Effects of Violent Video Games: Most of the bad effects of video games because of their violence they contain. Thus children who play more violent and dangerous video games are more likely to have increased of aggressive thoughts, behavior, feelings and decreased in prosocial helping. The effect of violence video games in children is worsened by the games’ interactive nature. For the repeated cases of violence in video games, the child is in control of the violence and experiences in his own eye by killing, kicking, stabbing and shooting in games. Too much playing of violent video game will make the kid socially isolated.

Violent video games have been blamed for everything from bullying to school shootings. Critics of these video games believe they cause people to commit violent acts in real life. These critics, mainly comprised of parents and other responsible adults, don’t agree with what the video games portray. Others say the video games cause less violence and are an outlet for anger and stress. Although violent video games have violent actions in them, teenagers should be able to play violent video games because there isn’t enough evidence to prove they make teens more aggressive, it could prevent violence, and violent video games are a fun and relaxing way to relieve stress and anger.

How the police departments, and SWAT teams handle, and proceed things, and also more help, and education with contacts for people who feel threatened by being bullied. They now also have restrictions on video games for age limits for being eligible to buy games involving shooting other people, like Call Of Duty, GTA, and many others. Some video gaming creators have even been sued for having a character in the game, shooting a gun, that was under eighteen. I think this is a good idea, because so many kids get their ideas and aggression from video games, or movies they