Are violent video games really to blame for all the real world violence. Recently there has been a lot of violence going on around the world and it has caused people to call for censorship of violent video games. Violent video games are not the cause of all the violence going on around the world. The crime rate in the U.S. is actually not that high. The rate of violent crimes in the U.S. has actually gone down. In Do Games like Grand Theft Auto IV Erik Kain states. “As violent video games have become more popular, violent crime has fallen”. If violent video games were really the cause of real world violence the crime rate would have gone up. Violent video games actually help us have less crime. In Violent Video " there has been a precipitous …show more content…
Untreated mental illness is one of the biggest causes. Kain stated “these shootings should point us to the elephant in the room, the other big common theme across all these mass murderers: untreated mental illness". Mass murderers also have a mental illnesses playing games is not the issue. Many gamers don’t commit violent crimes. Kain stated“ Each of the shooters Fox and friends use to bulwark their case for censorship of video game played video games, but so do millions upon millions of people everyday”. If violent video games were really the cause of mass shootings nearly half of people on this planet would be mass shooters. Sane people who play games like this knows not to do these things in real life. Some people would argue most people who are mass shooters loved to play violent video games. But any sane person can distinguish between what they can do in game and what they should do in real life. Kain argued "Most people can see this for what it is: escapism". A sane person knows that doing this stuff in real life is not …show more content…
When new games are released. Dashevsky stated "The researchers concluded that the release of major video games, particularly violent video games, led to a slight downtick in violence." If violent video games really caused crime there would be an increase in crime every time a violent video game came out. It also keeps criminals busy. Dashevsky theorized "those who are most likely to commit violent acts—are kept busy in front of their TVs and computers for hours on end, they will be too busy to go out into the streets and do real violent things." Since violent people like to play these games it keeps them too busy to commit crimes. Crime rates in other countries are high. Most other countries censor their games that's why their crime rates are lower. But contrary to popular belief, these games are sold almost everywhere around the world. The ESA stated “ Many games with violent content sold in the U.S. – and some with far more violence – are also sold in foreign markets. However, the level of violent crime in these foreign markets is considerably lower than that in the U.S”. If it was actually video games causing the violence the other countries they are sold in would have a high crime rate