Recently, in this modern world, there are more and more cases related to violent video games which effect children of all ages. Studies have provided a statistical comparisons between large groups of children who do and don't play violent video games. And it turned out to be the groups of children participate in violent video games have a higher violent thoughts, emotions and behaviors.
I know that nobody really actually know what was up with Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold and the reasons why did they cause the Columbine massacre. I know that it is not right to blame a single thing. But the two of the things that I think that affect and cause such violent thoughts and behaviors of them are violent video games and the US Gun Law. I think the society and the authority should do something to prevent such painful death and lost. I think the gun law in US as well as every where in the world should be stricter and tighter.Also, I think parents should really care about what games their children play. Is it violent? Is it appropriate?
There was several articles about kids kill people after playing Grand Theft Auto (GTA). Basically, Grand Theft Auto is a video game encouraging violence and awards points to players for killing people. It allows the player to make a crime, to go crazy and to simply shoot up anything in vicinity, to steal a car you like, to stomp a person you don't like, to blow away a cop in your way.
In 2005, an eight-teen year-old boy Devin Moore lived in Alabama was convicted for the 2003 shooting at a police station. He had played Grand Theft Auto day and night for months. It had been told by a police man, Devin Moore shoot two police officers and a dispatcher as he was being detained for allegedly stealing a car. He grabbed one officer's .45 pistol and killed all three before fleeing the station in a police cruiser he stole from the station. After arrested, Moore is reported to have told the police: "Life is like a video game. Everybody's got to die sometime." The game industrial gave him a menu that pop up in his head, which offer him the decision to kill the officers, shoot them in the head and then flee in a police car, just as the game trained him to do.
Recently, in another similar case, where an eight year-old boy intentionally shot and killed his grandmother after playing video game with a gun. The police believed that he had been playing Grand Theft Auto IV just minutes before the homicide occurred. This shows children does affect by violent video games. But another aspect of this ... where did the gun purchased? Why did they even have it? How did he get it? Where was it placed? In the US, any eighteen and above can purchase and freely use guns. Such as in the state of Florida, you don't even need to register to purchase a gun or even a license. I am agree that during the time of war, the gun law wasn't that strict and it was stated in the American constitution that every man had a right to defend themselves. But looking at a situation, where an eighteen year-old girl could just walk in a gun show and purchase a weapon with no questions asked. Isn't it about time that the gun law in American be revised?
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