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Similarities Between Video Games And School Shootings

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The video game industry has rapidly been increasing since the first video game was released. Video games have become a popular pass time between children, especially boys, ranging from 5-18 years of age. A national study found that the amount of screen time children receive per week is about fourteen hours. Additionally, the bestselling video games are the ones which include extreme violence with guns, bombs, etc.; therefore, parents are reluctant at times to allow their child to play such intense games thinking it might cause the kids to believe that the parents are allowing for such a behavior present in the games. Word has spread that school shootings might be a result of playing such games; people such as Craig Anderson and Brad Bushman believe this relationship is reliable. In an article, they wrote about studies and …show more content…

Others, such as Christopher Ferguson consider this information to be naïve and invalid. With such dangers lurking around people are simply trying to find a reason as to why someone might commit such a horrible act and once one person says that video games are the cause of such horrors people agree; however, others consider different reasons to be true. Since the series of the multiple school violence’s had began, people, mainly worrisome parents, made a possible connection between video games and school shootings. In Christopher J. Ferguson’s journal, The School Shooting/Violent Video Game Link: Casual Relationship or Moral Panic, studies of links between violent video games and their effect on a shooters behavior were claimed to be false.

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