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Video Games And Gun Violence Essay

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Video games have had an impact on the world worldwide with all types of games like Call of Duty, Fortnite, and Among us. Most of these games have things in common, these are all shooting and violent games and promote things like murder. These games are being introduced to young kids and becoming more normalized for younger kids to play. Kids love playing these games however murder games have an effect on many younger kids. Most video games have a connection to violence and can cause real life violence if in the wrong hands.

Study's have shown that shooting and murder games have effected mainly young adults and kids. Gun violence is a big reason people have tried to make theses connections to video games. Most gun violence cases that have been investigated has shown that the person that has committed the gun violence has had connections to video games. Starting with school shootings, In the 1999 columbine high school massacre one of the shooters had a history of playing shooting games causing people to make that connection. Toy guns also influence younger children, having them think playing with guns is okay. Many children have died from playing with real guns thinking they are toy guns. In addition to school shootings and toy guns, America has a big gun problem with people dying every day from gun …show more content…

When people think of this the first thing that comes up is aggression. Too much of playing shooting games or games with murder can lead to poor social skills, time away from family, and more aggressive thoughts and behaviors. Aggressive thoughts can lead to wanting to perform those thoughts which can lead to violence or nothing good at all. In addition to effects on human behavior are social skills. Most kids that play video games all day have zero to no social skills and they find it hard for them to connect with others causing

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