High-Jinks: Shoot-Out By Guy Martin

Violent Video Games In the hallway you see a kid who plays violent video games all the time beating up a kid just for fun. Some of his video game playing friends stand there laughing at him. The weak kid getting beat up is helpless and calling for help. The oppressor is making fun of him because he can’t do anything about it. Some people say that video games can be a good stress reliever, but so can many other non-violent games. Video games with simulated violence are a bad example, dangerous, and non-beneficial for teenagers and kids. Violent video games set a bad example for kids who are vulnerable and easily persuaded. Video games with guns and making the player shoot people teach them that it is honorable to go around discharging people with guns. In the article “High-Jinks: Shoot-out” Guy Martin explains about a high school’s end of the year game where teams plan attacks with water guns on other students to be the best team and kill off all the other teams. This demonstrates that no matter who it is it’s okay to shoot people and it is highly dangerous because those kids could switch out a water gun with a real gun. In the article it says, “At 10:30 P.M. on a Wednesday night 4 seniors armed with Walgreens-issue …show more content…
Nick Tews the author of The Disadvantages of Video Game Addiction says,“Video games can actually stunt the growth of the human brain.” This makes sense because all they are learning from this is how to shoot a gun and not using their brain and they aren’t using their brain other than to remember what to do. It is proven that if you don’t use a skill that you will lose the ability to do it satisfyingly. In addition to the serious brain damage video game players can undergo, they could have very severe health issues such as thinning bones. This happens because the kids aren’t very active and are playing video games instead of playing outside with their