Video Games are Sources of Violence Entertaining!

For the past few years, there have been several school shootings, the worst at Columbine High School, and since then people have been looking for the source to which this rage and violence is coming from. The American Psychological Associati

So, what exactly is the problem? Most of the kids that shot up a school had some kind of physiological problems coming from other sources, not video games. The video games were said to be the linked to the Littleton shooting, everyone reported that the two kids were always picked on by the “jocks” and other students at the high school. And it does not matter if you played video games or not, people do crack, and their rage will come out at some point. Some argue that people are reading to into these situations and there is really no problem with video games. Robert Lemos of ZDNN said the senators have been “accusing the [video gaming] industry of foul play, tobacco-style”(Lemos). John C. Dvorak wrote an article entitled “The Doom Factor.” In it he says, “One observer on TV [during the Littleton incident] called Doom and other games ‘murder simulators, pointing out that the military even practices on Doom.’”(528) It is true, the military does use Doom to practice moves, but they also use chess and flight simulators to practice and improve strategy. Dvorak continues to say, “My eldest son learned to drive a car on a computer, and he’s the best driver in the family.” Doom does have real life combat and does simulate murder, but is it safe for kids? Dvorak says, “I play Doom, too. I let my kids play Doom and Quake and Duke Nukem. I even let them play Grand Theft Auto… I know Grand Theft Auto is a simulator for carjackers. My thinking is that the boys find it fun and will move on to something else eventually”(528). The Doom Factor is something many people really believe in, even though a true gangster would be more likely to cause trouble then anyone of the millions of kids who play these games. Yet people are targeting computer gamers so another Littleton incident does not happen again, but really, they should be targeting the parents, they need more personal attention. “Nobody shoots up small private schools where the kids get lots of attention”(Dvorak, 528). I liked Senator Jack Wagner’s proposal to make it an offense to sell, rent, or provide violent video games to people under age 17, unless accompanied by a parent. Thi

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