Video Game Violence: Why Its a Problem

Introduction:

Since the early 90's and 2000's the topics of video game violence and its effects on on the current youth has been debated for many years. There is a large gathering of people who believe that violent video games are the causes for a rise in youth violence, and events like school shootings. Many articles and reports have investigated and reported that this claim is actually true.

Examples:

Do violent video games lead to real violence?

Little By Little, Violent Video Games Make Us More Aggressive

CBS: News Report:

   

What does it mean?

The argument being made in articles like these is  that over periods of time the children who play     videos games are more likely to develop less patience, this along with a general desensitization to violence that they claim games can produce leave many to believe that the children playing these games will be more likely to use violence in real life to resolve any issues they may have as that is the way they do it in games, and due to how realistic games look nowadays they believe that the line between the game and reality are blurred to the point where all children will inevitably believe that this is acceptable:

image courtesy of: gamespot.com

Many who are proponents of this claim that the industry as a whole is at fault for producing contents that ends up in the hands of children, and the industry as a whole should internally correct itself to address these issues of violence.