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Devon Huntley 5-31-13 College Bound 903

__Violent Video Games__

Why does playing violent make some people violent in real life, actually violent video games make people violent in many ways. One way is a 19-year-old high school student named Polwat Chino, told police he had been playing Grand Theft Auto IV in a Bangkok shop before running out of money. He saw a taxi driver and thought that he would be an easy target to rob. Another way is in 2005 a teenager named Devin Moore stole a car and killed two police officers all because he seen these actions took place on a video game he played.

In The Article [|“Murder Reignites Grand Theft Auto,” Denis Cummings] states that the cases against Grand Theft Auto revolve around the theory that playing the game makes users more likely to act violently in real life whether it’s because they’re imitating the game because they have become less likely to feel shock or distress at scenes of cruelty and violence. Grand Theft Auto IV is the third GTA game since the release of Grand Theft Auto III in 2001. Since then, it has been the target of criticism for its violent and sexually-explicit content. Attorney Jack Thompson has led the tried to put a stop to GTA, filing several lawsuits accusing the game of influencing its players to murder others.

A new ohio state university shows that playing violent video games can make people more aggressive over time. Some scientists say that violent video games is impossible to line video games to behaviors like the sandy hook incident. Video games could be expected to have a larger effect than media violence. The player is participating. They’re being reinforced,” says Rowell Huesmann, a psychologist at the University of Michigan. “The important thing is repetition. I think any child can play Grand Theft Auto or a first-person shooter a few times, and it’s not going to have much effect. But if they play day in and day out, over a period of years, any psychologist who understands the power of observational learning is going to find it hard to believe that it’s not going to have a major effect on increasing risk.”

Teenage Boys who play violent video games for hours on end may become desensitized to the brutality, a small new study finds. The researchers monitored the boys' reactions after playing a violent game called Manhunt and a nonviolent cartoon game called Animaniacs. They played each game for two hours on different evenings. Differences between the boys' reactions emerged later in the night after gaming. During sleep, the boys in the low-exposure group who played the violent game had faster heart rates and poorer quality of sleep than those in the high-exposure group. The boys in the low-exposure group also reported increased feelings of sadness after playing the violent game.  Violent video games make people violent in real life in many ways. One way is Polwat Chino, a 19-year-old high school student, told police he had been playing Grand Theft Auto IV in a Bangkok shop before running out of money. He saw a taxi driver and thought that he would be an easy target to rob. Another way is lab experiments confirms what any gamer knows, is that playing video games like Call Of Duty, Killzone 3, or Battlefield 3 get’s their adrenaline pumping and makes them want to be aggressive. A third way is About 90 percent of U.S. kids ages 8 to 16 play video games, and they spend about 13 hours a week doing so (more if you're a boy). Now a new study suggests virtual violence in these games may make kids want to act violent in real life. This is important in real life because more and more people in this world who play violent video games are becoming violent by the minute.