Issues In the USA Today!
Do Violent Video Games Contribute To Youth Violence?
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About 97% of US kids and teens 12-17 years of age bought $11.7 billion of violence related video games in 2008. 10 of the top 20 best selling video games were violence related in the US also in 2008. School shootings, increase in bullying, and violence towards woman were blamed on violent video games. As more and more violent video games are developed so may the increase in related violence.
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An outcry arose after the release of two violent video games, Mortal Kombat and Night Trap, prepared congress to hold a meeting on the regulations of games being sold.General Dan lungren a California Attorney stated that violent video games have "a desensitizing on young, impressionable minds." Intimadated with a creation of a federal regulatory commission, the video game industry volentaily created the entertainment software rating bored (ESRB) on september. 1, 1994 as a rating system. One of the following ratings was given by the ESRB based on the video game's content: "Early Childhood," "Everyone 10+," "Teen," "Mature," or "Adults only."
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violence crime decrease as violent video game sales increase.
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pros and cons of violent video games.
Pros
Pros
- Violent video games are the blame for school shootings,increase in bulling, and violence towards women.
- Violent games enchorage children that violence is the solution to all problem.
- Violent video games cause players to associate happiness and pleasure with the ability to cause pain in others.
Cons
Cons
- A casual link between violent video games and violent behavior has not been proven.
- A 2004 us secret service review of previous school based attacks found that one-eighth of attackers exhibited an interest in violent video games, less than the rate of interest showed in violent movies, books, and violence in their own writing.
- The small correlations that have been found between video games and violence may be explained by violent youth being drawn to violent video games.
Summary
The ninth amendments support my position in that even though bullying and violence is not part of the constitution, it is this the peoples right not to have to be mistreated for whatever reason. The Ninth Amendment states that the list of rights described in the Constitution is not exhaustive, and that the people still have all the rights that are not listed.