Violent Video Games Cause People To Act Out Of The Ordinary

It has been said that violent video games doesn’t cause mass shootings and mental health issues. But, video games cause the exact opposite of what people say. Video games cause people to act out of the ordinary. To elaborate, when the role player plays the violent video games for a long period of time, the player becomes numb to sympathy and emotions towards other human beings. This means that if the role player were to shoot up a real school, library, etc.
They wouldn’t feel any remorse for the lives they just took in an instant.
The “role player” would enjoy every single minute of taking the lives, innocent people.
The evidence that confirms that violent video games cause people to act out of the ordinary because the Columbine shooters, “dark

According to Maya Salam, video games play a very important in the mass shootings that are going on.
“A week after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where, authorities say, a former student, Nikolas Cruz, killed 17 people with a semiautomatic rifle. A neighbor of Mr. Cruz’s told The Miami Herald that he played video games, often violent ones, for up to 15 hours a day.” (Salam and Stack, 2018) (New York Times)
Furthermore, violent video games can cause very serious health issues that could ruin your life.
This makes the player’s life very hard to live if they are very focused and hardworking

“According to FBI statistics, while there was a slight uptick in violent crime 2012 over 2011(0.7 percent), still managed to have 12.9 percent fewer violent crimes than 2008.”
(Dashevsky, 2013) (TechHive)
Clearly, these video games are sometimes perceived horribly. In some ways, video games could be used as a coping mechanism to certain eating disorders, stress, anxiety, etc.
This means that not all video games are terrible. They could be used for good. For instance, some games can be used for fun, not a dark digital gore fantasy of killing people.

However, it is all up to you. How are you going to steer your life and actions towards success and happiness or anxiety and locked up in an iron cell for the rest of your life?
On a final note, this is why people act out of the ordinary while they are playing violent video games. This is also why video games can be used as a coping mechanism for stress, eating disorders, etc. Furthermore, this proves how and why violent video games cause real-life mass shootings and mental health issues.

Works Cited https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/us/politics/trump-video-games-shootings.html (1st