I am sure everyone remembers what happened in Littleton, Colorado on April 20, 1999. Did the Columbine High school, school shooting in Colorado that day have anything to do with violence in the media? The question of, does violence in the media have any effect on the way society does things today, has been pondered over a lot since the Colorado school shooting. I believe that violence among young people today may have something to do with what they see on T. V and on video games, but I think it has much more to do with how parents are raising there children today. How did the parents of Dylan Kle bold and Eric Harris, the Columbine shooters not know what there son’s were up to, were they paying any attention to there kids? If parents are gone all the time and kids are left home alone, they are going to look to the media for the guidance that there parents should be giving them. I agree with the article Life Imitates Video, by John Leo, in saying that video game playing is “a harmless activity among children who know the difference between fantasy and reality.
But the games are often played by unstable youngsters unsure about the difference.” I think if video game producers did not make the killing games as realistic, it may cut down the problem at hand. The article states that “More realistic touches in video games help blur the boundary between fantasy and reality – guns carefully modeled on real ones, accurate looking wounds, screams, and sound effects, even the recoil of a heavy rifle. Some newer games seem intent on erasing children’s empathy, and concern for others.” I agree with that statement, when children see people get shot, and get to shoot people themselves, on these games it makes them numb to real life scenarios. I think it is wrong for game producers to make it sound like it is ok to kill people. The article says “One ad for sony game says: Get in touch with your gun-toting, testosterone pumping, cold blooded murdering side.” For a popular game producer to say something like that is what is wrong with society today.
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