How Do Violent Video Games Cause Violent Behavior

If it were true that violent video games cause violent behavior, then the question would be, how are young children getting ahold of these M-Rated games? The blame would therefor be on either the children’s parents for buying them these games or stores, for failing to enforce the rules of minors not being allowed to buy M games without being eighteen years or older. A lot of kids or teenagers tend to get caught up in the games they are playing. They start to believe that they can portray the video game actions in real life. Some kids feel some sort of connection between real life and the video games. In a book called “Signs of Life in the USA”, the author of the reading named Zach Waggoner uses a quote by Jannet Murray that says, “We may not want to acknowledge a connection between ourselves and the mechanical world, but to be alive in our time is to be faced with this reflection, like it or not” (487) . This quote suggest that there is a connection between the real world and the mechanical world. On an article found on the Giant Bomb website, an assistant manager …show more content…
He shot them because his dad took away his game called “Halo 3”. When his parents had found out he had bought the game without their permission they took the game away from him and locked it away in their gun cabinet. When the boy found out his parents took the game away, he broke into the gun cabinet, grabbed his father’s gun and shot both of his parents in the living room. His father lived but his mother did not. The father blamed Halo 3 for his sons actions. The father explained how his son was injured and fell into a depression, he did not sleep or eat well, all he wanted to do was play that game. The sixteen year old boy was convicted of murder and attempted murder. He was sentenced to twenty three years without the possibility of