You can't go into a teenagers house these days without hearing gunshots, explosions and the sounds of people dying. Of course these are not real, there from a video game. Most likley Halo or Gears of War. With so many kids playing violent video games, are our streets soon going to be filled with 30 year old men, with real guns shooting people because they saw it in video game?
It's true that violence has been around forever, and it will continue to be. But the question that we need to ask is if the presence of violence in the video game world, has increased the presence of violence in the real world. In my opinion it can affect some but it does not affect most people. I think it is good that these games are generally restricted to older consumers because when you are younger you are more impressionable. By the time that most people are in high school they are either going to be violent or not. But how does one person become violent while another one is peaceful. I think a lot of it has to do with the environment that you grow up in. If you grow up in a rough neighborhood with violence all around, and parents who support this violence you are most likley going to be a violent person. However, if you grow up in a household that does not support violence and restricts the amount of violence that a children sees, that person is less likley to be violent. Games like Grand theft auto, and Twenty to Life I think are very damaging to the people that play it. Just recently there was a case when a teenager acted out his fantasies from grand theft auto and attacked women. I think that games that have you kill police officers should be banned.
To read about the Grand theft Auto attacker, click here.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1083649/Judge-blames-ultra-violent-video-game-Grand-Theft-Auto-teenage-thugs-sex-assaults.html
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I agree 100% that "it is good that these games are generally restricted to older consumers because when you are younger you are more impressionable." I think that the media does have the most influence on younger children who still find it hard to differentiate between right and wrong. Even now at 17 i still think my judgment is off sometimes and i can be extremely impulsive. Bad judgment and watching violence probably isnt the best mix but still i think that as a high schooler i do know killing,shooting, stabbing, throwing cocktail bombs, and stealing cars is wrong and for the most part wouldnt or would do it based on what i was thinking and not on what video game i played last night. I also agree that violence is most infuential depending on how you were brought up and whether you were raised with violence. I've seen first hand that children who grew up in violent homes are much more aggressive then those who grew up in non-violent homes.
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