Video Games Are NOT Responsible!

If you have been paying attention to some of the media lately, you will find that people are discussing how video games are responsible for all the school shootings and other gun-related violence. Furthermore, there have been talks of possibly banning video games. I will go ahead and tell you this; Video games are NOT responsible. You heard correctly. When you actually stop and think about it, we (the human race) are violent. We have been violent since the caveman days (or since Cain killed Abel, if you want to go biblical). And to add more to it, there was PLENTY of gun violence before video games even came to existence and I'm not just talking about wars, either. If you studied history or paid attention back when you were in school, you can see that for yourself. Let's dig into the Great Depression Era, starting with George "Baby Face" Nelson. If you remember correctly, George was a hot-headed, trigger-happy, cop-killing criminal. Yeah, he may have robbed banks but think of how many cops he killed and wounded. Even John Dillinger despised working with him, in fact, he hated George. When they (Nelson and Dillinger) robbed the Security National Bank at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Nelson gunned down a policeman, severely wounding him.Also, Nelson has murdered people that aren't even cops, one of them being a stockbroker name Edwin R. Thompson. We all know what became of Nelson in the end. Look up the Battle of Barrington. Now, let's look at another known criminal, or shall I say "criminals?"The criminals I am referring to is the infamous couple, Bonnie and Clyde. The couple has robbed people, banks, and other places while going into gunfights and killing people. Long story short, they died by suicide by cop. Enough said.

Now moving on to the earlier past. If you look at the wild west, not just Texas but other states as well, there were plenty of shootouts and trigger-happy outlaws. Take Billy the Kid for example. Billy was known to have killed a range from 4-21 people (don't know how many exactly as different stories tends to tell how many he killed). He was killed at the age of 21 at Fort Sumner.I can go on with more gun-related violence that occurred in the past that precedes video games and I can go one with violence that doesn't involve guns. Video games, like mental illness, are being used as scapegoats.

Using myself, I have played violent video games since I was a kid (the first blood game was Killer Instinct and the first FPS shooter I played was 007: Goldeneye but the first FPS blood n' gore game I played was Halo) and despite all the bloodshed I have caused in the video games, I have not done so in reality and I am diagnosed with ADHD and have been like that since birth. I bring up the ADHD part because so many people diagnosed with that have been thought of as ones to not only become violent but psychotic as well when we play violent video games.People have been providing "evidence" to not only back their accusations but to persuade others into banning video games. Fortunately, scientists, behaviorists, and psychologists have debunked the evidence by providing their own, showing the exact opposite of what the accusers have shown. In addition, video games have proven to help relieve stress and anger. Hopefully, people will come to their senses and realize that blaming technology for violent behavior that humanity has had since it came to existence is ridiculous.