How Do Violent Video Games Cause Violent Behavior

Violent video games are not causing kids to be violent people If there was an experiment created where a person was placed in front of a television screen, given a controller and allowed to play a violent first person shooter for an hour, would one feel the urge to shoot a school up? The question is do violent video games lead to violent behaviors? The research shows that violent video games cause heightened aggression, but not a more violent behavior. What trying to argue is that violent video games do not lead to violent behaviors. But on the other hand people think that just because one plays a violent video game, must make them a bad person. Violent video games do not connect to violent behavior because there is no single factor that leads a person to be violent or aggressive, just because
Dr. Strasburger from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine says that there were normally four factors that applied to school shooters. One, they had been abused or bullied. Two, they had a mental illness. Three, they were socially isolated. And four, that they had been playing violent video games. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza played video games, but unlike violent video game he was playing a Japan favorite Dance Dance revolution at local a movie theatre. A manager at the movie theatre say’s that he would get so into the game that he would whip himself into a frenzy and the manager would need to unplug the machine just to get him to leave. In the 1999 Columbine High school shooting, the shooter's mothers blamed violent video games as the source of their violence but later to learn that home videos made by the shooter’s show that they were bullied and abused by the jocks at school and wanted to put it to a stop. Whether there is a mass shooting in the United States, it doesn’t take long before pundits suggests violent video games might be to