Video Games Speech

* What allows you to huddle around a TV, get immersed in the screen, and get an adrenaline pump? I’ll tell you what it is, it’s playing video games that many claim to be “too violent” * Within the span of a couple of decades, video games have evolved from simple pixels moving across a screen to virtually lifelike images and simulation * Video games have quickly become one of the most influential and profitable sources of entertainment worldwide. * If you look at many children and young adults today, you can see that almost all their leisure time falls within time spent playing video games or watching television. * However, some controversy also follows this technology as many people claim it harms society more than it benefits it. * Video games accomplish a lot of things such as providing leisure, promoting certain products, or even as an aid for education. The question at hand is whether violent video games lead to violence in the lives of people today, to which our answer is no. We believe video games do not lead to violence, as much as watching Superman does not make people think they can fly. * It has been argued that in many cases people who play violent video games commit violent acts which get them in trouble with the law. However, this can be disproved because the amount of juvenile crime is the lowest it has ever been in the past thirty years. * This is true despite the fact that the violence in video games in recent years are much more life-like than it was in the past. * There have been some school shootings in the past involving adolescents and younger adults which some people say violent video games were deemed to be the cause. Although this seems reasonable since these kids did play violent video games, it is not true because the majority of the younger population today are avid video game players. * According to the US department of justice the amount of violence in the United States