Violent Video Games In Guy Martin's High Jinks: Shoot Out

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.

Thousands of teens in the United States play violent video games everyday, for hours on end. Teens and children playing violent games are now accepted as a part of life. They sit in front of a screen and watch blood and gore, with no emotions and without cringing. The games become increasingly more violent, as the age that children begin to play these games drops, from twelve to ten to eight. Now, we have six or seven-year-old children playing games rated M, for 17 and older. Teens should not be allowed to play violent role-playing games because it teaches them that violence is acceptable, that it is fun to be violent, as well as desensitizing them to violence.

The main argument of this article is that video games have a direct link to short term and long term aggression. The author presents this argument by providing studies from peer reviewed articles that all conclude that video games do cause an increase of aggression. The main point of this article is to answer the question, “Do violent video games lead to aggression.” The article is about the effects of violent video games leading to aggression. The author uses recent examples, like the Sandy Hook and Washington Navy Yard shooting. In both of these examples, the author cites that both shooters had a history with playing violent video games. The author uses a study which selected individuals to play violent video games for a certain period of time. The study would then compare the results to a group who played non-violent video games. The study concluded that violent video games cause a direct link in aggression due to humans reenacting the actions the characters within the video games perform.

If you were to go up to any parent and ask them, "Do you believe video games cause violence in teens?" Most would say yes.

Did you know that according to Dr. Bret Conrad, the majority of gamers believe that video game violence has few, if any harmful effects on them personally? Well, many people today play games with simulated violence ranging from games like “Killer” to games like Grand Theft Auto. One example, “Killer”, takes place in multiple New York City high schools at the end of the year. It consists of two teams, each student is assigned a person to shoot and they have to shoot them before they are shot. The students have to use water pistols to shoot their person. Once they are killed, their game is over. While some agree that games with simulated violence are perilous for teens, games with simulated violence are beneficial for teens because they help kids with problem solving skills, keep them busy and helps them help others.

In conclusion, studies have shown the issues brought up by playing video games could lead to terrible tragedies in the United States as we’re the highest ranking of mass shootings.Violent video games are one of the reasons why there’s horrible shootings is there are issues, violence, and behavior problems that come along with that. Games such as GTA 5, call of duty and many more cause motivation to shooters to do this. This is why teens shouldn’t be allowed to play violent video games because it changes them and later in life they can do crimes costing people's

“Although the game appears to be a fun and exciting activity for teens, there have been incidents recently that add a very dangerous element.” Principal, Kathy Charlton of Hempfield Area High school remarked. These incidents included students running around near school buses and ambushing each other in and around restaurants and local malls. It is my belief that violent role playing games should not be executed. Furthermore, it initiates transgressive habits and it also teaches students how to kill and set up for violence.

This is a game that has role-playing violence but yet there are still many positive messages that can be taken out of it. Some of these include, the school is a safe ground, teamwork, and problem-solving. A game like this can end up deflecting potential violent behaviors instead of promoting them. Overall, this is a game that could be considered a “violent role-playing game” that actually can develop useful skills that can be used in life.

Every teen has their own likes and dislikes. They are definite to what will benefit them and what will be a detriment to them. For example, violent games can be debated on both sides. Some people believe that it is detrimental for teens, and others believe they are exciting for them. Even though others may be convinced that they are harmful, violent games can be beneficial. Role-playing games with simulated violence ask for teens to act out in killing others in order to win. In fact, teens should be allowed to play these matches as they are diverting for a couple of reasons. One reason is that violent games involve strategy and teamwork. Strategy requires you brainstorm. Therefore, you can encounter your problem. Teamwork will ask you to get

Are violent video games directly correlated to teen violence? This is the burning question many researchers are dedicated to answering. The common form of the question is “Is the increase in violence in games creating killer kids?” The simple answer is no. Instead the opposite has occurred, as games became more violent, the players became calmer. The games create a “safe” outlet for any anger or angst that young people possess. Crime rates in the teen population have lowered and violent teens admit to having little to no interest in violent video games. The games that most people fear are destroying the youth may actually be one of the things helping them grow and become “normal” members in society.

For many teenagers in America, simulated games with violence are all they do and all they think about. You can argue that violent games teach kids to strategize quickly, but what about all of the negative effects? Kids are proven to be more aggressive playing these violent role playing games. Psychologists who study human behavior won’t even let their own kids play these barbaric games. Also violent games can cause kids to lose sympathy and be immune to traumatic experiences. Kids should be limited on playing these violent games so they aren’t a risk to themselves or others.

It is agreeable that there are some correlation between teenagers playing video games and how it affects the youth mentally. Heavy consumption of violence video games does indeed stimulate a change reaction in the brain waves, but there is no hard evidence stating that those changes causes teenagers to act aggressively and violently. On the contrary, it is a popular beliefs that violence video games does indeed causes teenagers to displayed unpleasant behaviors and actions because that is what they learned and observed from the games. Therefore, parents should limit and regulate the amount of time their teenagers are playing violence video games so that they can protect their children from negative behaviors.

Did you know that seventy-one percent of American teens play video games? Violent video games have a negative effect because they teach children and teens that violence is the way to solve real life problems. The following paragraphs will go into details on how they are bad, how they are good, their bad effects and their good effects.

With the popularity and production of video games constantly rising since the mid 90s, you would also imagine that the violent and illegal acts in teens would have also risen, but that is not the case. In fact, violent acts in youth have steadily decreased during the past 20 years, and are projected to continue to fall. While there could be many reasons for this drop in violence, the most likely one is that the inclusion of violence in video games actually provides an outlet for frustrated and angry teens to safely discharge their anger in the digital world, and not upon anyone in the real world. Video games offer an area in which your mind can explore and wander with no fear of consequences, so in

Video games are frowned upon by parents as time-wasters, and worse, some education experts think that these games corrupt the brain. Violent video games are easily blamed by the media and some experts as the reason why some young people become violent or commit extreme anti-social behavior. But many scientists and psychologists find that video games can actually have many benefits – the main one is making kids smart. Video games may actually teach kids high-level thinking skills that they will need in the future.