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The Violent Video Game Plague

For many years, people of all ages have been attracted to violent video games. As the rate of children playing them has gone up so has the crime rate in juveniles. The attention has finally turned on the video game industry as to who is inspiring children to commit crimes. Studies show that violent video games are in-fact a main reason for increase in crime.
One occurrence of these crimes is the Columbine shootings; officials were able to link these killings to violent video games. Participating in these "shoot-and-splatter" video game fantasies for many hours may make this kind of actions palatable in real life (levy 2). One game that was directly cited to the columbine shooters was "Doom", as well as "Wolfenstein 3-D" and many other first person shooters. Normally these games are used as a way of stress relief, however after a long time in this type of virtual killing might resulted in a tainted mind, thinking more violently and treating......

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