The Debate Behind Video Game Violence

7:58 it is debatable in the gaming community that this is a pure crime

The people who disliked this are boomers. I GUARENTEE YOU.

Yeah spoiler alert: If you don't explain to a kid how to behave around a gun then let them go in there after seeing guns in ANYTHING game or otherwise…they're more apt to get curious and pick it up. BET the same thing will happen with a monkey. 200IQ geniuses these researchers. If anything playing Doom when I was little made me more cautious around guns, of course my father taught me to fear and respect the power of a firearm at a young age. I understood that was NOT a toy and was very dangerous at a very young age. Little kid me was very aware that violence in movies was very different from the real thing. Some parents are just terrible, don't want to deal with their kids and don't teach them basic common sense things. Some of those same kids end up demented or have psychological issues. No one wants to look at the real problem, they want the simple solution. Trash research. Those kids that were more likely to mess with the guns would have done so if they had seen a movie with a lot of gun play, looked at PICTURES showing the operation of the guns to great detail and even if they simply witnessed someone previously picking one up and pointing it around the room. What a lot of these don't show is if a gun is fired around a kid that young they often get scared or freak out a little bit. Penn & Teller did a good one about this. I advise everyone to look into it. Poor kid was so intimidated by a real gun that it made him cry because he made the connection that the out of touch halfwits in politics and media were targeting him as someone likely to hurt someone just because he played COD and when a real rifle was fired around him it terrified him. Teach people to understand guns and we won't have as many problems. Here's a scenario: 100 unarmed people in a store getting shot at by a maniac or 100 trained armed legal gun carrying citizens in that same store…maybe that maniac gets one or two rounds off before 1 of the customers drops him like a bad habit. A few generations later, people might be a bit less inclined to go on shooting sprees when EVERYONE they're shooting at can shoot back. We can not be this stupid. I refuse to believe this level of ignorance exists. Especially in our elected officials. Incompetence to say the least. Make these people become avid gamers first. Have them go through the story driven and violent games they condemn so much first. Tell them they need to understand something thoroughly before they start making snap judgements and then see what they say.

If video games really do cause violence then why does Japan, Singapore, south Korea has so low crime rates huh? Gaming is a part of their culture. Politicians are just making excuses.

Another factor to consider is the parents who buy the video games for their kids. Just like with movies, video games have age ratings based on the more subjective content in the games. But most parents aren’t taking that into consideration for some reason. Because of this, if a kid is too young to handle what happens in the game, but also really wants to buy and play it, the parents usually don’t care and buy the game. There aren’t usually any complaints until the parent sees the possible effect on their kid it could have had, and when the parents complain, it is usually targeted at video games, when the parent should have known what their kid was seeing and experiencing in the game, because it is their job to take care of their kid(s).

I’m playing GTA5 watching this I’m doing the jewels store heist

The ESRB

According to boomers if I start playing Pac-Man I’m going to eat children

popularizing mass shootings through the media is what causes more people to cross that line. In 2018, it became a 'trend' in the news, in 2019 it became something almost to be expected. in 2020 now that the corona virus outbreak occurred there is absolutely 0 news about mass shootings or school shootings, and that might be because the schools are closed so kids dont have anyone to shoot at now, or it could be that those mass shooters were influenced by the media.

“Violent game” shows minecraft

Hillary Clinton hates videogames too Democrat’s and republicans hate Video games

do people still believe this? i thought this ended in like mid 2019

AGGRESSIVE ACTS THAT ARE TEMPORARILY PLS GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT AND STOP PAYING PEOPLE TO SAY VIOLENT GAMES ARE BAD

red dead redemption 2, your rewarded for being honorable and only killing bad people. You are rewarded for being an honorable person

Walmart will remove violent video game ads, but keep actual guns

Chris Fergason = #1 Shrill

It really comes down to the state of the mind. Video games inspire violence no more than violent books or tv shows do. And even a font does inspire violence, it’s a very VERY small proportion of gamers that actually act out on it.

I'm pretty sure if you gave the kid, who was about to shoot up a school, an awesome video game to play, he'd rather stay at home and play said game

The ESRB and PEGI ratings are long overdue for an update (and not because of violence like the media says)