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Over the past couple years; violence in video games has been a fairly hot topic in the news. The question that most people want to know is does violence in video games really give people the urge to kill? In my opinion I don’t think it does. I believe that as humans we are born with the instinct to kill. For example when most people see a spider on the ground, what is the first thing they do? Kill it. By saying that I don’t believe that it’s the video games that kill people, I believe that it is the people that kill people. So now I will go over my reasoning for saying this and my oppositions reasoning as well, by talking about the Columbine shootings, being able to take legal action against video game companies, proving that violent video games are not a bad thing, and how video games can actually keep children out of trouble. After the Columbine shootings in 1999 the media instantly started looking for reasons why this tragic even had occurred. They thought of every imaginable thing they could, trying to come to the conclusion to why this happened. They thought it could have been because of hatred toward gay people, or maybe because of hatred towards Christians, but naturally they also added in video game violence too. But even one of the own murderers himself said that it was nobody’s fault but his own. "It's my fault!" he wrote just before the killings. "Not my parents, not my brothers, not my friends, not my favorite bands, not computer games, not the media, it's mine." (Rolston) Proving that the media did not have an effect on his decision to do what he did that day, it was something more than that.
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