Video Games: A Cause of Violence and Aggression

In this article, Grace Shin uses many examples of video game addiction to create a sense of urgency to come to a solution to the ongoing problem of video game violence. One such example is her explanation of the shooting on April 20, 1999 at Columbine high school. This shooting was said to be provoked by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold's addiction to the popular video game, Doom. Since the creation of Doom, video games have continued to become more and more violent and have continued to provoke people to act upon skills that they have aquired in the game. Since this shooting, many other shootings, deaths, and murders have occured due to accessive playing of violent video games. Such acts include the shooting at Virginia Tech, the murder of Daniel Petric's parents, the suicide of Shawn Woolley, and many others. This article was written at this time to create awareness of the damages that excessive video game playing can cause. It prepared us for the awful things that have occurred after it was written, and for the future acts that will occur.