So basically this is about are violence in video games making kids or even just people violent. Now, I have done no research, this is based off my two cents as a gamer who tries to make an understanding of all these anal people saying video games are like the devil. Now in a argument you can’t say one side is from a bunch of anal people grabbing straws, you have to actually look at both aspects. But before I begin, why are video games violent? Well video games are a form of media, and as they grow they slowly become a experience that is art. And art like movies and books have conflict. Usually the conflict is taken on with violence weather it’s noble or not. But when people see a movie or a book, they are viewing, and a person isn’t controlling the violence. But in the end not all games can be a simple dance game or things like that, in the end violence is inevitable in games, and there’s no way around that. But when people see violence in movies and books it’s justifiable because around a movie you see the story and point behind it. When people see Batman movies they don’t just think violence, they generally think superheroes. With games people who don’t play games generally just see meaningless violence, and that’s not really their fault. But if the violence is inevitable, is it actually making people violent in real life? A lot of kids are in school shootings, and a lot of kids are just sources of violence. From what I’ve heard more people in these shootings play video games. Now, video games are obviously increasing in how many people play--today it’s a large form of media. Not to mention simple population increase, so I’m not surprised by those studies one bit. That’s as simple as more people who eat food and breath air play video games. Also let’s not bullshit, more socially awkward kids play video games than the kids who have a bunch of friends, and those kids generally are more prone to school shootings. It’s not really the video games giving them the idea as much as they happen to be gamers. Or maybe it’s the video games, I don’t really know, but that’s not the point of this discussion. Anyway, games like COD or any game really do have a lot of violence. And to be honest I see a lot of COD players, and they’re usually more aggressive like. But then when I think back on that, millions of people are COD players, but only when I see the aggressive ones do I think COD player. So that’s as much my fault as anyone else, and we need to get past the stereotype that games like COD and other first person shooters are making people violent, because even though I don’t really like the games, I can’t point a finger like I do whenever I see a COD player acting at all violent. Also I think games like Call Of Duty and most online gaming is more likely raising people being competitive. Your in a huge competitive environment where your if you don’t win your getting told in the face with statistic you fucking lost. I think competitive gaming rages people getting aggressive, not violent. They get raging episodes and make little fits, but I don’t think that has anything to do with school shootings. I’ve had moments when I’m stuck on a boss and I’m pissed off for about five minutes, but I really doubt that’ll make me start fights, or shoot someone. I think people outside of the gaming community take a big leap from a kid playing Call Of Duty to that kid wanting to actually shoot someone. And I hate to use this card, but these games aren’t for kids. Game’s like Grand Theft Auto or Assassin’s Creed obviously aren’t for kids, the titles have crimes and killers. But most of these kids parents are just blind to what they do because they are so alien to it. They’ll conduct a study before actually go hands with a game, and that’s not their fault, but whenever your alien to a subject and are trying to study it, actually get hands on with it. And sorry parents ultimately there’s something wrong with buying your child a sixty dollar game with murder used in the title, and the cover is a man with a sword, a big rated M for mature slapped under that and then taking the game away once they hear a study about it. So this really is a victimless argument except maybe the kids who get a game taken away even though they shouldn’t. So eventually as games hit older generations people will stop carrying about this, and ultimately parents I think will become gamers, and the stereotype only teenagers and kids play games will end. But in the end violence is human nature, but maybe there's something wrong with a parent when they let their rich six year old play a rated M game like Call of Duty on their gigantic T.V.
