Violent Video Games Teach Children to Enjoy Killing

Grossman, Dave. "Violent Video Games Teach Children to Enjoy Killing." Greenhaven Press, 2001. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Web. 18 Mar. 2010.

Dave Grossman, a retired army officer, and author of two books on media violence, testifies of the effects in children of violence in video games, to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Youth Culture and Violence. He presents a collection of 2,500 studies on media violence from the National Institute of Mental Health, showing that there is a clear link between media violence and violent behavior in children. He also shares data that 16 million children have access to guns in their household. He calculated that 6/10,000ths of a percent of these people will abuse that access to a gun. He contends that although 6/10,000ths of a percent is a extremely low percentage, that it still gives a child the possibility of committing an awful crime. He suggests that gun control should be more strictly enforced, and that children should be better informed of the negative effects that guns can have.