Violent Video Games: Why Do Children Hold A Gun?

A ponderous medium of media is video games in co-relation to violence. Video games encourage violent behavior in children as they are at a crucial stage of adaptation.

The effects of both violent and non-violent video game playing can be determined by the amount of time playing the video game and by the content of the games being played. The content of the games being played could definitely have a factor in how a child performs in school, and how aggressive they are towards peers and teachers. Obviously if a child is playing hours upon hours of violent video games, this can lead to them acting out violence and having no consequences for it. If a child took the time that they played video games a week and used that time to be engaged in reading, homework or even a creative activity we’d have less issues with our children’s school performances. Parents should really be monitoring how long their child is playing video games, but this doesn’t always happen. A child who plays video games for long periods of time could also build up a social wall, become a loner. It is important for children to interact with other children in order to help develop their social skills, which without will make it very difficult to make it in this world. At the age children start playing video games, it is hard for them to distinguish what is reality and what is not. So in some cases the violent acts in video games could make the child believe the world is a scary place.

Violence and Video Games A lot of teenager’s love the game’s Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto 5; well at least I know I love them. These games are played on the daily by many teenagers. But some Adults and people who work in the government, thinks game’s as such as those cause some teenagers and adults to do violent things but why? Just because, some teenagers and adults play violent video games doesn’t meant that’s making them do the things they do.

Many people say violent video games are the cause of mass shootings without looking at the evidence that would prove them wrong. Violent video games have always had the label, that they cause violent behavior in teens and young adults, but is that label correct. The reasons are violent video games and video games in general lead to less crime and gun violence, the sales of video games has increased and juvenile crime has decreased, and violent video games allow players to release stress and anger. Video games lead to less crime and gun violence because people are spending more time playing video games. The increase in video game sales and the decrease in juvenile violence. Violent video games allow players to release stress and anger in video games.

With various numbers, despite everything it is not demonstrated that violent video games can negatively affect kids. In any case, it's reasonable that violent video games can add to youth violence. Mirror neurons are cerebrum cells that demonstration of individuals' sympathy for other in violent games, individuals have an opportunity to slaughter individuals or animals inside of feeling compassion for the individuals who are executed. Children regularly lose their feeling of reality and fiction and violent video games have been demonstrated that it can urge children to act savagely. A Clinician have affirmed playing violent video games is connected to forceful and insensitive conduct. Children are not influenced by pursuing a violent book the same way they are from a violent game. Kids may not completely comprehend that they individuals they people have genuine lives and genuine families. Subsequent to doing violent video games are to say rebuked for some things and youth roughness is one, alongside school shootings, forceful conduct, viciousness toward ladies and other criminal conduct. Since there is no official examination done to demonstrate savage computer games add to youth roughness there is not a lot anybody can do. Parents should limit on how long their children are allowed to play the game per day. 75% parents believe that the parental controls available in new

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.

As technology advances, the more parents are worrying about their children. The internet has become essential to everyday life, but does it have an effect? Video games have become a source of entertainment for young people all around the world. Videos have been blamed for any violence in young people. Recent games are now becoming bloodier and more realistic. I believe that video games do not negatively influenced young people to be more violent in real life. Instead they develop mentally, socially and emotionally.

“Did ‘Grand Theft Auto’ cause one teenager to kill?” (Leung, 2005) “Monkey See, Monkey Shoot?” (Keim, 2013) The almost countless controversies and fingers pointed at companies such as Rockstar Games, Infinity Ward, and Midway Games blaming them for “Violent Video Games Turning Kids Into Killers” (Johnson, 2011). With all the articles and news outlets that have scolded violent video games and their creators, many have forgot the good. Video games do have the ability to teach and stimulate the brain by engaging users in high social activities, critical thinking skills, relieving stress, and individualized

Second effect is the development of violent behavior and this take place when the total time of the child from his time of waking up till sleeping time, video games have taken hold of him, in such a way that this starts to develop a violent behavior if the child and that game are separated, this drastic change has been observed in not just a few of the children but also teenagers that have had zero tendency of violence and have flipped 180 degrees completely. This change in behavior not just affects them directly but also the immediate family and social circle of the child.

Good Morning, everyone, i'm going to start off with a poll of who all plays video games in this class. A lot of you/ maybe not too many in this class play video games and/but, as of 2015, 42% of Americans played video games at least 3 hours a week, which is roughly 135 million of the total population. This proves that video games play a large role in our society. Today I’m going to be speaking about the psychological effects that video games have on youth, but in order to do that, I need to inform you of the evolution of violent video games, the effects of violent video games, and the positive effects of video games.

Excessive video game playing has been a problem with today’s youth they have had more influences over the youth than ever before. That brings to my attention a question, how do video games affect the youth of our society? Excessive video game playing, especially violent video games, can lead to youth violence, a decrease in academic success and many other negative things. I realize that some parents believe that they can be good for children, I agree but I also disagree in some cases. Some parents allow their children to play video games to keep a social life and to learn how to use strategies. This is true in some cases but not in all cases. For instance, other children that play video games alone and are in their rooms constantly can

It is being demonstrated by research that violent television and media have a cause and effect on children and youth that watch them. Because video games use the same repetitiveness mechanism as television and media it is expected by social science professionals that video games cause an even greater impact.

“Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end” (“Video Game Quotes” 1). Over time researchers, psychiatrists, and parents have often wondered how damaging violent video games can be to the youth in society. This is an important matter to people with children in their personal lives or work environment. These games have become a large risk factor for aggressive behavior in children. Researchers have been saying that video games do affect adults as well; however, they have even more effect on younger brains in early development. Video games have negative effects on childrens’ behavior. Some effects that video games have are reduced academic performance, aggression, obesity, and emotional disorder.

Poor school performance is another negative side effect of violent video games on children. As Hughes, Emily states in her article, Developmental Psychology at Vanderbilt, “In America, 81% of youths play at least once a month, 8.5% of them are addicted and “the average 8- to 12 year-old now plays 13 hours of video games per week, while the average 13- to 18 year old plays 14 hours of video games per week.” This study confirms that because children are so busy with video games they have no time and interest to focus on school activities and finally they fail the class. The consequence is not only failing the class the consequence will be long term. After failing the class children can lose the interest of continuing their education and they can be depressed and lonely. Also, the more young people focus and spend their time on trending violent video games, the culture of reading books, participating in outdoor activities, and exploring new things will become old fashion. In today’s young generation reading books or participating in book clubs are not that important and trending. Most of the time kids who always carry books or who loves to talk about books and other club activities does not consider as one of the cool kids. To begin with, in today's technology and information world there are several things which can distract children from important things they supposed to do for their bright future, and violent video games take the first place. Children who are obsessed

Now video games are getting more and more popular, and teenagers like to play them. However, many parents are worry about that some types of game are not suitable for teenagers, like violent video games, they believe it will bring some negative effect to teenagers. Although parents believe that violent video games are harmful, it cannot be banned. Therefore, the parents should supervise their children play the violent video games. In many people’s view, violent video game possible bring negative effect to teenagers in three ways, psychological, morality and aggressive behavior.