Should Teenagers Be Allowed To Buy Violent Video Games

Violence and Video Games Adele Haddow
Should teenagers be allowed to buy violent video games? Some people believe that violent video games cause violence in the world, however, conversely other people disagree by saying that films, books, YouTube videos and television shows are more likely to cause violence to happen than violent video games are. I believe that, although video games that are violent may cause some violent acts in younger children, teenagers are more mature and are less likely to do violent acts.

One of my main reasons for saying this is that television programs, films, books and YouTube videos are just as likely, if not more likely to cause violence to happen than violent video games are. They all show much more violent acts than video games do, plus violent video games …show more content…
I believe that teenagers should be able to buy violent video games as I personally think that they are not the sole cause of violence to occur in the world as the games are mostly made and played just for fun and are sometimes even a usual way to relieve some stress that teenagers have in their everyday lives. Even though there are games such as Grand Theft Auto where players can kill other humans, take part in shootings and the majority of the deaths are all shown in gruesome and gory detail, I believe that teens should be able to buy games like this because it is most likely that teenagers will not say, do, or repeat anything from this game or any others. It keeps their minds busy and keeps them from doing other stupid things, like real life violence. Just because teenagers are fine with shooting someone in a game does not mean that they would be fine with doing the same in a real life