Growing children are easily influenced by the examples laid out before them. A young boy who plays hockey and follows the sport closely is probably more likely to resort to violence to solve a conflict than a boy whose role model is a pacifist folk-singer simply because violence and fighting is a prominent overtone of the sport. The same goes for a child who is very interested in one or more of the numerous video games available that focus on killing as their main theme. A child who plays violent video games will resort to violence more easily when faced with a p

Therefore, violence in video games for any medium is a dangerous thing to children who are at an age where they are easily influenced by the subjects around them. Video games promote an interest in guns, present a distorted reality, and may actually train people to be marksmen. Incidents like the Columbine school shooting, the worst school shooting in the history of the United States, are proof of the influence of heavy violence in today's games.

Violent video games can teach a person how to aim and use a handgun. In an article of the July issue of Shift magazine, the editors addressed the issue by giving a young man who had played violent arcade games all his life a real handgun at a shooting range where he could test his shooting ability for the first time. Even the young man himself was perplexed when he missed an incredibly low percentage of the shots fired. He was shooting with deadly accuracy and he had never even held a real gun before in his life. Similarly, a man in the United States walked into a church with a Glock .18 16-shot pistol and killed twelve people with it and injured another two. Twelve of the sixteen shots he had available to him were so accurate, he was able to kill a fleeing person in a single hit—shooting accuracy that many trained law enforcement officers cannot equal. The unsettling part of the story is that the man had never shot a handgun before, not even before h

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