Do Video Games Make People More Violent Video Game Violence?

Decent Essays
From the Sci-fi war game, halo to the popular Call of duty franchise, first person shooter videogames continue to grow to be the most popular video game genre on the market. These games seem to get a bad rep in being the blame for violent behavior in children and even grown adults. So do video games really make people more violent, or is that simply just the thought of over protective parents. In 2012 A 20 year old man shot and killed 20 first graders and teachers. Later evidence shows that the shooter was a big fan of the first person shooter Call of Duty, which puts you in life like war situations with amazing graphics. Studies do show that violent people do seem to have a habit of playing violent videogames. But even though the evidence is clear …show more content…
From experience My mother introduced me and my little sister to a violent video game franchise when I was just 8 and my sister was around 7, and to this day I have never shown any violent outbursts as shown in scientific studies. Which is why I believe that violent video game are not directly linked to the behavior of players, never to say that some people are not affected but. I believe that the affect is majorly psychological. I believe that a person is originally psychologically violent and enjoys playing games. It’s like the current argument with gun laws. To restrict guns because they are weapon that killed is wrong since guns don’t kill people, people kill people. It initially takes the mindset, the thought, to kill in order to go through with the action. I believe that violent video games are too much for children’s this days cause it make I our kids violent in this world. They are killing each other over crazy mess that’s not even important because of violent video games that people come out with make our kids do things that not good for

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    It all depends on the type of person they are. If they are already aggressive or they have a disorder that makes them more violent then they will be more violent when they play video games that have violence in them. It also depends on their age, for example when an eight year old plays a violent video game and has a very imaginative mind, the eight year old will see the world as if it were in the video game and get violent, and the parents don’t like that and think that every video game…

    • 443 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There just not a `enough evidence to prove that videogames cause violence. To reach any conclusions about weather playing a first person shooter will increase the likelihood that someone will shoot people in real life, there needs to be more research. If video games are the reason why people cause violence, and then the government or whoever starts to take them away, it would be like taking away a rubik's cube or a walkman in the…

    • 946 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    There are many researches that state video games do not create violent people. A small study offers a mixed view on whether video games may make kids more aggressive. Those children who spend more time playing games might be slightly likelier to be hyperactive and to get into fights but violent video games seem to have no effect on behavior according to british research.…

    • 465 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    In Call of Duty Black Ops during the mission “Payback,” a teen will find themselves in a Vietnamese torture-interrogation scenario where they are forced to play Russian Roulette until they give up information. The objective is to break out of the interrogation room and get revenge on their captors. They do so by blowing up, shooting, and stabbing every enemy soldier they come in contact with. This mission is similar to many other missions in popular violent video games. The majority of the time, the player of this game will turn off their Xbox or PlayStation and either go to sleep or go out to the living room and has an in-depth conversation with their family about the days’ events.…

    • 1350 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Violent video games lead to aggressive behavior in those who play the games. Video games can alter the mentality and actions of a player. This does lead people to engage in more serious levels of criminal behavior or activities. Levels of violence within videogames causes players to become desensitized against violent real life situations. As video game play increases, players do not see the effect that the game has on their response to violent situations around them.…

    • 1320 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Does Video Game Violence Contribute To Real World Shootings? In the article "Don’t Blame Video Games for Real-World Violence," Christopher J. Ferguson claims his belief in the disassociation video games have with real violence. This piece uses evidence from recent shootings and the lack of scientific evidence to prove his assertion. The technique of bringing to light the flaws in the conspiracy that video games do invoke violent behavior in users to raise awareness on this fallacy.…

    • 589 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Violent video games are more of an alternative to rough and tumble play where they could be physically aggressive. People often think that video games make people less detached from the world such as the 9/11 crisis, children wanted to draw pictures of the burning buildings and play games where you crash airplanes, of course, this worried parents, but what they don 't realize that 's just kids being kids, they’ll play with something to make it safe. For the thousandth time video games have no negative effects on the brain, all long term effects have been positive. Media control what the mass population believes about video games.…

    • 1368 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    According to a professor of psychology, Christopher J. Ferguson, conducted a study about the connection of violent video games to changes in kids mental state. “Results indicated that exposure to ‘violent’ video games at age 9 was not predictive of aggression or reduced prosocial behaviors one year later. Overall gaming, likewise, was unrelated to most mental health issues, including attention problems or reduced social functioning, or total mental health difficulties”. Research has been done about the connection between violent fictional stories/violent video games to real-life violence. The majority of the studies have proven that real-life violence was influenced from violent video games or reading violent fictional stories.…

    • 1369 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Reductionist Reporting

    • 2229 Words
    • 9 Pages

    And found that there was no significant reduction in pro-social behaviour after exposure to the video games. Dudley- Nicholson (2013) interpretation is that violent video games don’t cause anti-social behaviour. What’s more, Dudley-Nicholson (2013) backs up the misleading with a quote from the CEO of a major gaming association, who rationalises that increased play of violent video games over the past decade has not resulted in an increase in violent behaviour. Review of studies focusing on anti-social behaviour and aggression in relation to violent video game play show contrasting trends. Many studies…

    • 2229 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Erik Kain explains how video games could possibly be influencing violence in kids. Video games are addictive to some kids and the more they play them the more they get shut out from reality, and then they start to be influenced by them. “Some studies have shown that video games increases aggression.” This shows that violent video games aren’t harmless they can do harm and effect some kids behaviors. There have also been dangerous shooters who were addicted to video games, “Dylan Klebold… the Arizona shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, the Norway shooter… Anders Behring shot 77 people.…

    • 752 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Violence In Video Games

    • 469 Words
    • 2 Pages

    “An APA study claims to prove a definitive link between violent video games and aggressive behavior, but its limited implications mean the debate is far from settled. ”(Caspari). There are games such as GTA, Bully, Max Payne that promote violence. For example in the game Max Payne it shows scenes in slow motion in which shots go completely through target’s back in a very gruesome way. These genre of games have a very bad influencing picture on violence.…

    • 469 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Although it is a common belief that violent games cause violent thoughts and thus cause people (mostly young men, per a recent study) to commit homicides or massacres, the truth is that multiple studies have been conducted and more of the results have been in favor of homicides being carried out by people who already harbored violence within and did not play many violent video games. People who play violent video games are less likely to attempt murders. "This…digital blood o*** must have some kind of effect on [life.]" says staff writer for TechHive Evan Dashevsky. "There is data suggesting it does, however…it…may directly contribute directly to making society less violent… According to [economist Steve]…

    • 1152 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Although there may be a little violent and gory video games, they shouldn’t be the blame for violence in our country. Video games do not cause violent crimes because gun violence is less prevalent in countries with high video game use, video games have a positive act of kindness and prosocial behaviors, and gamers know the difference between virtual violence in the context of a game and appropriate behavior in the real world. In countries with high video game use, there are far less violent crimes. Video games can make a person feel somewhat guilty and want to try to do something positive to help others. By age…

    • 689 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    While playing the game, kids have the time of their life enjoying all the graphic content the game provides. Although violent videogames do expose adolescents to graphic content, that does not mean the viewer will become violent themselves. Videogames should not be the scapegoat for when teen violence occurs. The problem that people are facing is that they are making quick assumptions that since teens are exposed to videogames then they are going to be shooters. In the article, “Violent Video Games Do Not Cause Aggression”, David Kushner explains, “If no one has said there’s a causal link between games and real-life violence, why does it keep making headlines, and why do these get cited so much?”…

    • 1340 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    and they do not gain violent behaviors even with the long term effects of video games, there is insufficient research linking video games with violence only aggressive behaviors, and the fact that video games are only a contributing factor of violence. Video games cannot cause a person to commit acts of violence because the person would have no time to carry out such actions. People who tend to play violent video games…

    • 1737 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays