Video games have become a modern activity in society, all ages can partake. There are many different types of games like action, adventure, Shooter, education, puzzle, racing and much more. Video games have also gone through changes aesthetically; we have gone through games such as Pong all the way to bloody gruesome games like Gears of War and Grand Theft Auto. The average ages of players are 9-17. Most of them would play video games for more than 20 hours a week. Playing video games excessively can cause mental problems in oneself. People who play violent video games tend to become aggressive. These problems can cause social isolation, all the way to murdering people. Many never think a person can do horrific things because of video games.
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A young man who is 20 years old is responsible for the Sandy Hook school shooting. New York Daily reports, Lanza has been bullied in throughout his years in high school, this made him antisocial, and out of contact with those around him. Lanza spends most of his time playing video games in his room; it is believed he spends all of his time by himself. Lanza mostly plays violent video games like Combat Arms, Call of Duty, and Kindergarten Killer (Daily News). The New York Daily News reports the NRA Blames games like Kindergarten Killer for the cause of the Sandy Hook slaughter. Lanza was obsessed with the military; he played many hours of Call of Duty to get ready to enlist. He would always wear head-to-toe military outfits and he also created an indoor shooting range he would use pellet guns to shoot paper targets (Daily Mail). According to Daily Mail “Nancy Lanza recalled to a friend, days before the attack that her son had become increasingly obsessed with the military since she told him he wasn 't cut out to be a Marine, and she described finding disturbing pictures of mutilated corpses and murdered children under his bed”. Lanza became fixated on mass killings since 2009. On April 1999, at Columbine, high school in Columbine Colorado, senior students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 students and injured 21 others. Harris and Klebold have been best friends since middle school. While in middle school they have been bullied, close friends have said "People surrounded them in the commons and squirted ketchup packets all over them, laughing at them, calling them faggots," Brown says. "That happened while teachers watched” (Westword). Many blame video games for influencing them. Both Harris and Kelbold were big fans of video games such as Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Half-life. Harris would often create worlds for
A young man who is 20 years old is responsible for the Sandy Hook school shooting. New York Daily reports, Lanza has been bullied in throughout his years in high school, this made him antisocial, and out of contact with those around him. Lanza spends most of his time playing video games in his room; it is believed he spends all of his time by himself. Lanza mostly plays violent video games like Combat Arms, Call of Duty, and Kindergarten Killer (Daily News). The New York Daily News reports the NRA Blames games like Kindergarten Killer for the cause of the Sandy Hook slaughter. Lanza was obsessed with the military; he played many hours of Call of Duty to get ready to enlist. He would always wear head-to-toe military outfits and he also created an indoor shooting range he would use pellet guns to shoot paper targets (Daily Mail). According to Daily Mail “Nancy Lanza recalled to a friend, days before the attack that her son had become increasingly obsessed with the military since she told him he wasn 't cut out to be a Marine, and she described finding disturbing pictures of mutilated corpses and murdered children under his bed”. Lanza became fixated on mass killings since 2009. On April 1999, at Columbine, high school in Columbine Colorado, senior students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 students and injured 21 others. Harris and Klebold have been best friends since middle school. While in middle school they have been bullied, close friends have said "People surrounded them in the commons and squirted ketchup packets all over them, laughing at them, calling them faggots," Brown says. "That happened while teachers watched” (Westword). Many blame video games for influencing them. Both Harris and Kelbold were big fans of video games such as Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Half-life. Harris would often create worlds for