Argument Introductions

          As someone who has been playing video games for almost my entire life, I’ve realized that so as long as video games exist, there will always exist a belief that video games influence violence in real life. From my perspective, I’ve used video games as entertainment along with coping with anger and depression. And I can’t be the only one. Many people view violent video games as huge influences to real life violence and crimes, but they have no correlation. Before video games were even invented, violence has always existed. As I mentioned, video games are nothing but a positive influence to people of all ages. Not only do they provide never ending entertainment, but also the opportunity to make friends online, build self-confidence, setting goals, learning to be competitive, and most importantly; having fun. With all of these positive outcomes from video games, violence in video games should never be compared to violence in real life.

 

          Violent video games has always been the most popular game type amongst people of all ages. To say that these video games are a huge influence to real life violence is complete craziness. If that were true, with millions of players of these violent games every day, there would be nonstop violence all around the world. People are so quick to blame video games considering many shootings involve teenagers who probably played video games. But if you compared the amount of people who play violent video games every day to the people who with mental instabilities, it’s clear to see what the real reason to real life violence is. Although these video games depict violence through shooting each other with guns, they don’t hold any influence to real life crime and shootings.