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Noah Johnson
Mrs.Allison
Period 5
December 9
Do Violent Video Games Cause Real Violence

Do you think violent video games lead to real violence?In my opinion it does because it shows
increased activity in the amygdala.
Video games and killers have been connected in the media since the 1990s.People dont just
watch video games; they interact with them. In my opinion it does because it makes you more
aggressive.

In my opinion it does because it shows increased activity in the amygdala according to Do

violent video games lead to real violence, by Julia Layton. Researchers looked at the brains of
44 kids immediately after they played video games. 22 played non- violent, 22 played violent
video games, the 22 who played violent video games had increased activity. These increases
didnt show up on the scans of the nonviolent game group. Whatever the factors, the evidence
for some kind of connection is compelling. Todays school shooters certainly do seem to share
a love of violent video games. The analysis concluded that the studies clearly support the
hypothesis that exposure to violent video games poses a public- health threat to children and
youths.

Video games and killers have been connected in the media since the 1990s. In 1997, 16 year
old Evan Ramsey brought a shotgun to his Alaska high school and shot four people, killing two.
He had played a lot of the sci- fi horror game Doom and he was surprised because in Doom

you shoot people multiple times before they die. Entertainment media have always made good
scapegoats for negative behaviors among young people. For instance in the 1950s, lots of
people blamed comic books for kids acting badly. Also in the 1960s, rock n roll made kids do
drugs. In the 1980s heavy metal music was causing teens to commit suicide, and in 1999
Columbine massacre, with its unprecedented number of victims, might have ushered in the
official age of blame the video games. Also in 1997, a 14 year old killed multiple people at
his high school in Paducah and he had also played a lot of Doom and some Mortal Kombat.
Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people at a summer camp in Norway in 2011, said he trained for
his attack using the war game Call of Duty .

Works Cited
"Do Violent Video Games Lead to Real Violence? - HowStuffWorks." HowStuffWorks. Web. 04 Jan. 2015.
<http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/video-game-violence.htm>.
"Do Violent Video Games Lead to Real Violence? - HowStuffWorks." HowStuffWorks. Web. 04 Jan. 2015.
<http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/video-game-violence.htm>.