Some may live and some may die but a lot of the victims in my neighborhood are children who don’t have anything to do with what is going on just in the wrong place at the wrong time. My question to that is where is the right place to be for a child when gangs are shooting everywhere in parks, stores, malls, and schools, and who get caught up in the cross fire young children. We are losing our future! Second, we lose our sense of security. I know that I could let my 10 year old daughter walk to school by herself, but with shooting all the time I walk her to school.
The critics of video games demanded that stricter controls such as American gun control the media then swept up the story and labelled video games “murder simulators”. But time has shown us that the individuals in this massacre, and in other incidents of shooting sprees, the purpatrators were wither victims of abuse at the hands of adults, were mentally disturbed or were the victims of extensive alienation and abuse at the hands of their peers. I believe that these events could have been avoided with intervention from the school or the family who should have seen the degeneration in the persons attitudes. Critics claim that violence breeds violence. So why is it only video games that take the blame.
Vulgar language is just one of many issues that are vulgar about violent video games. They teach children it’s accepted to swear at people when they get angry, or if they are just trying to help. Dr. Phil McCraw says "But they do use more aggressive language, they do use more aggressive images, they have less ability to control their anger and they externalize things in these violent ways. It's absolutely not good,” Instead of getting yelled at in the game kids from all over world are getting rewarded with trophies in the game for killing another person. “Exposure to violent video games increases the likelihood of aggressive behavior in both short-term and long-term contexts” says Daniel Willens.
My sister started driving at 15 with no license, but I my parents made it very clear they didn’t trust me with the car like they trusted my sister. When I turned 15, I begged my parent’s to let me to go take my learner’s permit test with no such luck. Frustrated I did something I did not even know I was capable of doing. I took the car without permission, not to mention it was like my first time driving. I picked all my friends up trying to showing off.
Musical lyrics have the extreme possibility to play a role in negative teen behavior as shown in court cases, the impressionability of teens, and the correlation between bad behavior in teens and their actions. In certain court cases it has been shown that a teen listening to a band like The Insane Clown Posse is more likely to commit a major felon than someone like someone listening to The Backstreet Boys. In a previous case, a girl and her boyfriend, Ethan and Tara, murdered their unfortunate classmate, Sarah. Ethan and Tara were the misfits, the “bad kids”. Many students were afraid to upset or anger them.
Cyberbullying is also a hot issue due to the epidemic of suicides of young people across the world in first world countries. Since it is easy to be anonymous online, kids who are bullied online often have no idea who their bullies are. It could be their “best friend” or someone who they barely know. They have no real way of confronting their bullies or preventing further bullying. The abuse online often translates to the real world.
Many people wonder how this type of exposure to violence as an adolescent effects social behavior. The rise in violent shootings by teenagers, many of whom apparently play violent video games, is helping the argument that video game violence translates into real-world situations. But other people aren't convinced and insist that video games are a scapegoat for a shocking social trend that has people scared and looking to place blame. In modern popular game Golden Eye 007 bad guys no longer disappear in a cloud of smoke when killed. Instead they perform an elaborate maneuver when killed.
Violent video games have been blamed for school shootings, increases in bullying, and violence towards women. Critics argue that these games desensitize players to violence, reward players for simulating violence, and teach children that violence is an acceptable way to resolve conflicts. Video game advocates contend that a majority of the research on the topic is deeply flawed and that no causal relationship has been found between video games and social violence. They argue that violent video games may reduce violence by serving as a substitute for unrestrained play, and by providing a safe outlet for aggressive and angry feelings. I believe that the latter is true.
Cyber bully The movie Cyberbully by Charles Biname shows how cyberbullying is a problem in our society. Cyberbullying is a big problem in our society because it is the reason that kids and teenagers committing suicide. The movie does a good job of showing how teenagers and kids feel when they are being cyberbullied. With the explosion of modern technology, old-school bullying is out and a new type of bullying is taking the stage. But while stuffing someone in a locker is a pretty obvious sign of harassment, with no bruises or bloody noses as evidence of abuse, cyber-bullying often doesn't raise alarms until it's too late.
If, however, their parents were punished, or threatened with punishment if they didn't start disciplining their little treasures, then I think the parents would be much more likely in future to keep a closer eye on their children's actions and punish them themselves for any wrongdoing. I was reading an article in the news today about a gang of yobs, some thought to be as young as 6, who had vandalised an ambulance while a paramedic was in a house treating an ill 2 year old, and then threatened the paramedic with ball bearings guns so that the police had to be called before the toddler could be taken to hospital. If those kids are caught they won't be punished by the police, and as their parents probably won't be either the kids will get worse and worse. If the parents were fined, or made to attend parenting classes or something, I bet they wouldn't be so quick to let their kids wander around the