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In the article John Leo talks on the Colorado massacre at Columbine high school in nineteen ninety-nine were Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris used pistol-grip shotguns “As in some video-games. The pools of blood, screams of agony, and pleas for mercy must have been familiar”(John Leo). The massacre was a tragic event having “two teens cackled and shouting”(John Leo) as if it were just a morbid killing video-game after killing innocent people. Then to end the massacre by ending their own lives by “shooting themselves in the head, the final act in the game Postal”(John Leo). This event awakened people to the seriousness on violent video games and the effect that it could have on anyone to influence them to do tragic things. John Leo believes that the “outlandish weapons, the cheering and laughing while hunting down victims one by one. All seems to reflect the style and feel of the video killing games they play so often.”(John Leo) the similarity of the killing games and actions taken in real life is too similar making people think that killing video games are the reasons for the shootings and massacres. John Leo also believes that violent video games can almost be as a dress rehearsal for some of the unstable kids that play these games obsessively and that don’t know the difference

Video Game Violence has been a big controversial topic for many years, going back to the most simple classic video games like Ms. Pac-Man, Centipede and Space Invaders,which eventually turned into more modern games like Destiny and Grand theft Auto. This research expands and analyzes the idea of how video game violence is always accused and put to blame for aggressive events and how the research of this is faulty . The way most people look at video games and how people try to connect them to violence could needs to be corrected. Within this research we will be looking very closely at how these studies and tests were done on violent video

The event of mass murder as known today, postal workers going postal and school massacres, has been emerging as a more regular occurrence throughout the last century (Lester, Stack, Schmidtke, Schuller & Muller, 2005). Starting with the Vietnam War era, there have been an increasing number of mass murders, which share a causal link to the increased militarization of American Society. The introduction of semiautomatic weapons in mainstream society gives the opportunity for explosive and gratuitously violent events such as have been seen in recent years (Hamamoto, 2002). The increase in graphically violent war movies and first person video games, full of violent images and massive destruction, lend a hand in the building of a society that is hyperaware of war level violence.

In my most recent essay I wrote of the violence attributed to video games in light of various shootings and other tragedies that occurred in the past year or so. In this essay I argued that despite their violent content, video games are not completely to blame for acts of violence committed by children. Throughout this essay I tried to convince the reader by, first, establishing my own credibility with video games, then sharing my own experiences with violent games, and providing both empirical data and valuable insight from trusted sources.

Call of Duty, Mortal Kombat, Grand Theft Auto, and Doom. Many know these games for their violent nature, stemming from their graphic scenes or gameplay involving shooting or beating up opponents, and these factors have caused these games to stir up quite a bit of controversy. For the last few decades, people have debated the effects of these games on the people who play them. Many believe those who play the games become more aggressive as a result of their violent nature, while others argue that playing the games has no effect on one’s behavior. Society should realize that violent video games have, at most, minimal effect on players’ behavior.

As a hook in his article “When Life Imitates Video,” John Leo describes the Columbine High School massacre which took place near the city of Littleton, Colorado in 1999. Leo claims the actions taken by the teen shooters are due to the violent video games that* many young people play. The rest of his essay builds from this idea, arguing that violent video games desensitize players and encourages dangerous and delinquent behaviors in young children and teens. To effectively convince his target audience, those who have not yet had exposure to the idea of a connection between video games and behavior, of this idea, Leo utilizes an appeal to pathos and logos.

Video games are prevalent among impressionable children and teenagers. There has been a great deal of controversy surrounding the violent themes used in video games. Teenage shootings in schools have led society to question the relationship between video violence and criminal activity. After considerable research, expert opinions, and research findings, the American Psychological Association found that there is no link between gaming and criminal behavior (Casey). With this, the pursuit of video violent games continues to grow in our society. With games that show execution style murders, blood oozing from gunshot wounds, and victims moaning from wounds, it certainly is gratifying for the indulgent player. The ongoing concern about aggression and violence has once again been proven to be non-existent (Alert). My thoughts are that this cartoon like violence is appeals to the need for violence in an artificially designed environment. In this manner, violence is contained within the boundaries of fantasy. This is unlike “The Crucible” which occurs in with real people, events, and situations. Thus, directing violence in the realm of societal dysfunction that has endured with

As video games and graphics have progressed, so have the style, the images, and gameplay of these games. First person shooting games has become a growing cause for concern, because of the explicit and violent nature of which these games possess. Combine that with the detailed graphics and the gorging ethics of gameplay, while looking at the rise of violent behavior within teenagers in society, and you can see what this has become a growing concern among parents and teachers alike. Violent behavior has become a subject of growing concern among the youth, and experts point to the deliberate and overuse of the game console. Despite the fact that it has been nearly impossible to attribute

Can violent video games truly be a cause of real violence in our adolescents? Can they really lead to such terrible tragedies and massacres like the one at Columbine high school? That is exactly what writer John Leo is suggesting in his essay, “When Life Imitates Video.” He starts us off here by pointing out the similarities between the actions taken during the Littleton massacre and the events of video games like the two shooters often played; and he criticizes the plethora of shooting games available today and how realistic they are. These games that are played by so many today, Leo warns, could “blur the boundary between fantasy and reality.”

Games themselves are not the product of violence, but rather, the people influenced by the games and the interaction of the game. Just as guns do not kill, but the people and their cruel intentions, violent video games are a source that lead to effective mur-der homicides, suicides and tragedies. This is an evident problem. Yet, the problem lies in the heart of man. Until this is solved, every seemingly positive aspect in the world is merely the de-velopment of entropy awaiting

Bradley starts off his report with asking the reader to imagine a game that would let them “decapitate police officers, kill them with a sniper rifle, massacre them with a chainsaw, and set them on fire” (Bradley). This use of extremely graphic

In the article “Why We Need Violent Video Games” by Ethan Gilsdorf, we are introduced to an all-time controversial topic regarding the influence of violent video games on impactful national shootings in America. In the article, Gilsdorf goes on to support how violent video games help decrease such destructive behaviors and are not primary responsible for such shootings but instead leave such violent tasks as part of our imagination. Although, Gilsdorf holds his own opinion throughout the article, he does not fail to mention the beliefs of certain political leaders about the violent video game industry and the national gun control. Leaders such as Vice President Biden and President Obama were known to try and pass a specific program, proposals

If the game is a first person shooter, players have the same visual perspective as the killer. After exorbitantly savage occasions, first person shooter games frequently go under examination. In many countries, a few first-individual shooter amusements vanished from the business sector for some time after the killings. Does extraordinary battling on a level screen show additionally bring about forceful conduct, in actuality? Analysts from the University of Bonn discovered mind movement designs in overwhelming gamers that varied from those of non-gamers. The study's outcomes have quite recently been distributed in the investigative diary Biological Psychology.

After the elementary school shooting of Sandy Hook in 2012 this issue of violent video games became a hot issue calling for a connection of violence to video games. However, the final investigative report suggested that he was more a fan of nonviolent games (Ferguson, 2015). Video game violence is an issue that continues to be studied due to the inability to come to a general conclusion on whether or not the games provoke violence in connection to mass shootings. With shootings occurring and receiving mass coverage the media and public often seek a person/item to place the blame on. After the tragic events that left people dead or injured one of the topics that emerged was that of video games affects/effects on the person.

In the article “10 Critical Questions about Fictional Representations of Violence.” By Henry Gunshot he disgusts the violence of playing video games. Gunshot uses the term “first person shooters”-it means that the gamers have to perform violence. Most of the players are