Argument for the Idea That Violent Video Games Should Be Banned!

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Argument For The Idea That Violent Video Games Should Be Banned! Picture this: A 12 year old boy worked to the best of his ability at school but at Christmas he received a Play Station 3 with a game called Call Of Duty. Within a week of owning the game he had spent around 120 hours on the game out of a possible168. His parents thought this was an excessive amount of time to be playing on a video game. They decided it would be best to take the game away from him. That was a big mistake. The boy was furious but not in his right mind. Late one night he crept into the garage and he saw one of his dad’s tools lying on the bench. He thought the tool looked like one of the weapons from his video game. He took the tool and went back into the house and went upside into his sister’s bedroom and hit his sister with the tool thinking he was still playing the game and she was just a character. He did the same with his mother but his father woke up in time to stop his son from doing the same to him. His dad locked him in their utility room and called an ambulance but by the time the ambulance arrived at the hospital the boy’s mother was seriously injured and his sister was already dead. This is just one example of what too much gaming can do. As soon as you start using video games it costs money to use the electricity and possibly the internet, all this can put you in debt if you are spending your time on a video game rather than at work earning money. Another point is that these video games can affect your education. If you have become addicted to the games you could miss out on vital days for your education at school, college or university and may be kicked out, therefore you would not have earned the right degrees to get the job you wanted from going to school and university. On the other hand video games can provide an improvement in hand eye

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