Killer Or Assassin?

While some argue that violent role playing games are a positive game to play, I feel that they have a negative impact on teens. In the article “High-Jinks: Shoot-out” by Guy Martin they did an experiment where students played a shooting game in school. Some teams were getting 13 kills in 4 days. This is so bitter that a high school students goal is to “kill” people. By teens doing this, it is teaching them that it is ok to kill someone. Pretending or not this may lead teens to be more capable of killing someone in real life.

Violence is everywhere in our world, and when teens and children play violent role-playing games, it says “violence is acceptable”. In the article “High-Jinks: Shoot-Out” by Guy Martin a high school student says “I’m looking for some good massacres early” in reference to their high school's annual end of year game, “Killer”. In this game, the students team up and take on the role of assassins, out to kill all others. These are only high school students, 14-19 years old and Killer is only a game, but they are using violent terms like massacre like any other word. They use it like mass killings are acceptable, and that attitude is what is hurting the world. In the same article, Martin said, “Since the start of the game, the twelfth graders had been sleeping on futons in vans borrowed from their parents, the better to pull off a stoop-side ambush and avoid being ambushed themselves.” They are not even adults, yet they are treating a game so seriously, sleeping in a car, talking about waiting to ambush. Yes, they are using tactical thinking, but there are plenty of non-violent opportunities to use that skill, like in chess. Teens need to stop because violence is never acceptable.

While he is successful in some respects, his attempts mostly fall flat due to a lack of evidence to back the claims and connections he is making. John Leo discusses two mass shootings which were still fresh in his audience’s mind: the Columbine High School massacre, and the Heath High School shooting in Paducah Kentucky in 1997. When discussing both shootings, Leo connects the actions of the shooters to video games. In the Columbine High School shooting, the shooters finished their spree in a way Leo suggests was inspired by the video game Postal which had come out a year and a half earlier. The Heath High School shooter hit five of his victims in the neck or head. As Leo mentions, “Head shots pay a bonus in many video games.” However, when describing both of these events and their supposed connections with video games, Leo fails to support his claims. He never tells his audience whether the shooters in Littleton ever actually played Postal, although there is evidence showing the two did play the videogame Doom, and he never mentions whether the shooter in Paducah played any violent video games. At one point, however, Leo successfully appeals to logos as he describes how the Army wanted to desensitize its recruits and make them more violent. “During World War II,” Leo writes, “only 15 to 20 percent of all American soldiers fired their weapon in battle.” The Army wanted this number to increase and found that shooting games can make them more violent. This realization is why the Marine Corps is “adapting a version of Doom, [a] hyperviolent game, [...] for its own training purposes.” Leo presents this as proof that video games makes people

Children play. The manner in which children have played has frequently changed throughout the years. There was a time where sticks or index fingers were used to symbolize guns or bows in order for children to play “cowboys and Indians.” Later, the same mechanisms were used as children would play “cops and robbers.” Children mimic what they see in reality when it is time to play. However, children are not known to mimic what they play when functioning in real life. For example, children who played “cowboys and Indians” were not known to actually go out and try to harm others in the belief that they actually were cowboys or Indians. These examples are relevant in today’s society as critics of violent video games often attribute violence in reality to the violence in video games. However, videos games are a form of play and, as the previous examples have shown, what a child plays is not reflected in what that child actually does in their real life.

The assassination role play game teaches teens important lessons about life that will be useful later in their life. One lesson the game teaches teens is to function and problem solve without

To start with, videogames can help kids improve their problem solving skills. In the game “killer” the students are allowed to shoot their enemy whenever they want, except at school safe zone. One of the students, Jake Protell chased his prey to the Newark airport. After recent events at airports guns are not allowed to be brought into the airport. instead. In the article “High-Jinks: Shoot-Out”, by Guy Martin, Martin states “Protell took a car to Newark Airport, found the victims before they passed through security, and dispatched them using two bathtub ‘squirt fish.’” By using “squirt fish” Protell was able to go near his target without being seen and shoot him with water. Since Protell was quick at thinking, he was able to shoot them before they passed through security where he would have needed a passport to pass through. He also followed the rule of not bringing firearms into the airport. If he did he might have been arrested for being thought of having a firearm. Violent role playing games also help with problem solving because they help kids make decisions under pressure. In the game Grand Theft Auto people can choose how they want their game to be played (sandbox). In the article “Do Games Like 'Grand Theft Auto V' Cause Real-World Violence?” by Erik Kain, he states, “We can drive through stop lights, mow over civilians, crash and die and start over, get in ridiculous gunfights and still

Some people think kids shouldn’t play violent role playing games because they think it gets kids to stalk other kids, but i think it’s good because it promotes teamwork, strategy, and espionage, all three of which will help the student in the future. At St. Ann's high school a game lasts two and a half weeks and has built up a seventeen-point rule book, a map of the safe zones around the school, a judge, and an entry fee, all for a harmless water pistol game. In the end this was all just about Killer, a last-man-standing game of water-pistol ambush, just because people considered it a violent role playing game even though it teaches the kids a lot and is just a water pistol game and if you still disagree with me go out out and try it for yourselves

There has been a lot of disagreements on teenagers play violent role playing games. Some people say it’s distracting for teenagers to play violent role playing games and some say it helps them. The assassin is a popular game that was developed in 2003 by Warren Gerstacker. It is now a popular game that is also played in Brooklyn Private School. If you ask me, I say it is good. Nicholas Kilstein stated “Students either became creative or was already creative because of assassin.” First of all, violent role playing games helps students in the future for jobs and colleges. Second of all, violent role playing games motivate and encourage students to work together. Lastly, violent role playing games help students learn smarts that aren’t taught in school. Teenagers should be able to play violent role playing games because it builds creativity.

These violent role-playing games are influencing bad behavior in adolescents. “High-Jinks: Shoot Out,” by Guy Martin reveals the dangers of these games. “All other players are anonymous, so that in the days leading up to the game the school becomes a souk of intelligence-gathering and disinformation.”(Martin) This quote is stating the fact that as the game gets nearer kids start to lie to each other. Lying is something that kids have been taught not to do since they were little. But when they play this game lying becomes okay.

If a child who has no interest or knowledge in guns and weaponry begins to play a "shoot-em-up" video game where the sole purpose is to kill other people that child could become interested in guns and move on to something more realistic such as pellet and paint ball weaponry. From there the child could move into actual guns when he/she is able to acquire such weapons and this could lead to an act of violence against another human being. Violent video games can foster an interest in guns and violence in children, which can lead them to more realistic violence.

In “High Jinks: Shoot Out”, by Guy Martin, teenagers at Saint Annes high school, signed up to play a strategic game called Killer. They use teamwork and

The first reason that the game, “KIller”, is perilous for teens is that participants go through the personal information of their classmates. Guy Martin in his article “Shootout” (2009) notes that, “In 2007, Jake Protell, a freshman, distinguished himself by ferreting out the itinerary of a field trip that two targets were taking to Tel Aviv.” Based on this excerpt, it seems as though some irresponsible students are willing to sort through field trip forms that do not concern them, just to “kill” someone in the game. In a similar situation of invading personal information, a group of [adjective] seniors “Posing as Cohen’s teammate Dominic, using Dominic’s caller I.D. The call had been engineered from a remote computer by a squad member with prodigious hacking skills.” This quote from the article shows that students in the game went as far as to use someone else’s phone number to call the landline of a victim’s house, where they most certainly don’t

“I like video games, but they’re really violent. I’d like to play a videogame where you help the people who were shot in all other games. It’d be called Really Busy Hospital.”-Demitri Martin. Role playing games have been a source of fun and entertainment for children and adults. There are more safe and calm games such as Just Dance, and there are more Perilous games such as Call of Duty. Role playing games such as killer are perilous for school age children putting them in danger, teaching violence, and teaching reckless behavior.

“Head shot! That guy was destroyed!” These are just some examples of the dialogue spoken between children who play video games like “Call of Duty” or “Halo.” Children brag about the number of people they have killed in these games. Playing violent video games may cause children to act violently. First, violent video games train players to act aggressively by repeatedly killing an enemy over and over. Second, children mimic what they see, whether it’s in real life or on a video screen. Third, being exposed to the violent behaviors of the game, dead bodies, and blood, make the players insensitive to violence. Because the violence from video games affects the behavior of children, violent video games should not be available for purchase by anyone under age eighteen.

Violent video game in which humans are being harassed, physically harmed, killed, sexually assaulted, or contain elements of drugs should be banned for children under the age of 18, because they may increase violent behavior and have a negative impact on their moral development. Also it impact on their education. Also school environment.