Violent video games can cause physical aggression. This type of aggression is the behavior that is intended to harm another person physically. A brief exposure of violence from the video games can increase aggression immediately. Repeated exposure leads to general increases in aggressiveness over time. Minors learn new forms of aggressive behaviors by observing them, and will likely reenact them. Therefore the relationship between video game violence and aggressive behavior is causal. Stores shouldn't sell violent video games to minors because they cause minors to become aggressive, and they teach minors how to kill.
Due to the fact that violent video games can cause aggressive behavior, stores should not sell violent video games to minors. …show more content…
Paul Keegan the writer of ¨Video Games and Other Media Can Cause School Shootings” notes that, ¨Playing video games from the point of view of the killer is making some kids to start thinking and acting like assassins.” A video game called GTA (Grand Theft Auto), which is a very violent game, allows you to go out in public and shoot innocent people for no reason. This game is the number one video game that minors play. In contrast, children should have the ability to distinguish between shooting on video games, and shooting in real life. According to Dave Grossman, writer of Violent Video Games Encourage Violent Behavior, Michael Carneal, a teenager unfamiliar with real guns, fired eight shots and made eight hits on students at his high school, a feat expert marksmen could not reproduce. Grossman claims that Carneal mastered his skills playing first-person shooter video games. This goes to show that violent video games are turning minors into killers, therefore stores shouldn't sell these violent video games to …show more content…
In document “Violent Video Games Train School Shooters” Attorney Jack Thompson states that “On June 18, 2004, a 12 year old boy, dressed in camouflage, walked into his Bull Run Middle School in Prince Williams County VA armed. On him he had a rifle, a knife, a butane fuel and 100 rounds of ammunition. His intentions was to take hostages, take over the school, and settle scores, but luckily a passer-by heard the familiar sound of a gun being loaded as he walked by a bathroom, and a new “Columbine” was narrowly averted. The Prince William County Police got a search warrant and seized guns and computer equipment from the boy’s home, but they missed something. Being that Attorney Jack Thompson had represented the parents of the three girls shot and killed by 14 year old Michael Carneal in the Paducah Ky., school massacre, and predicted Columbine on the Today show eight days before it happened, called the Prince William County Police and suggested they needed another search warrant. This search warrant would be the one to look for violent video games. He suggested this type of warrant because the FBI and Secret Service found in the aftermath of Columbine that such violent entertainment plays such a role in school shootings. Dozens of such incidents since Columbine have confirmed this.” Attorney Jack Thompson also says that “In 2003, an 11 year old boy dressed in camouflage tried to take over
Due to the fact that violent video games can cause aggressive behavior, stores should not sell violent video games to minors. …show more content…
Paul Keegan the writer of ¨Video Games and Other Media Can Cause School Shootings” notes that, ¨Playing video games from the point of view of the killer is making some kids to start thinking and acting like assassins.” A video game called GTA (Grand Theft Auto), which is a very violent game, allows you to go out in public and shoot innocent people for no reason. This game is the number one video game that minors play. In contrast, children should have the ability to distinguish between shooting on video games, and shooting in real life. According to Dave Grossman, writer of Violent Video Games Encourage Violent Behavior, Michael Carneal, a teenager unfamiliar with real guns, fired eight shots and made eight hits on students at his high school, a feat expert marksmen could not reproduce. Grossman claims that Carneal mastered his skills playing first-person shooter video games. This goes to show that violent video games are turning minors into killers, therefore stores shouldn't sell these violent video games to …show more content…
In document “Violent Video Games Train School Shooters” Attorney Jack Thompson states that “On June 18, 2004, a 12 year old boy, dressed in camouflage, walked into his Bull Run Middle School in Prince Williams County VA armed. On him he had a rifle, a knife, a butane fuel and 100 rounds of ammunition. His intentions was to take hostages, take over the school, and settle scores, but luckily a passer-by heard the familiar sound of a gun being loaded as he walked by a bathroom, and a new “Columbine” was narrowly averted. The Prince William County Police got a search warrant and seized guns and computer equipment from the boy’s home, but they missed something. Being that Attorney Jack Thompson had represented the parents of the three girls shot and killed by 14 year old Michael Carneal in the Paducah Ky., school massacre, and predicted Columbine on the Today show eight days before it happened, called the Prince William County Police and suggested they needed another search warrant. This search warrant would be the one to look for violent video games. He suggested this type of warrant because the FBI and Secret Service found in the aftermath of Columbine that such violent entertainment plays such a role in school shootings. Dozens of such incidents since Columbine have confirmed this.” Attorney Jack Thompson also says that “In 2003, an 11 year old boy dressed in camouflage tried to take over