I believe that video games do not contribute to youth violence. Everyone who plays a video game knowns what they are playing is a game. I do not care what people say about video game violence relating to youth violence because for every kid who plays a video game and bully’s someone or commits a crime, there are 150 more kids right behind him who have not commited crimes or bullied others.
According to a 2000 FBI report playing violent video games is directly associated with school shootings (“Do violent”). By saying this the FBI is saying that anyone who plays a video game that contains violencemay just go and shoot up a school. This is entirely false, if someone is that insane to go shoot up a school they are going to have a better reason, or no reason at all which is the more likely case, than becasue they played a violent video game. Besides over 97% of 12-17 year olds played video games in 2008 (“Do violent”). So the FBI is saying that over 97% of the country could be associated with school shootings.
Not only do the majority of people who play video games now right from wrong and that they are playing a game, they are also the most active members in society. Almost every high school boy in throughout the United states has played a rated M (mature) video games before. This goes to show that even the straight A students are playing the violent games that are supposedly corrupting them. Another great example of why there is no corrilation between violent behavior and video games was a stat taken in 2005. This stat stated that there had been 2,279 murders committed by teenagers compared to 73 in Japan. The stat continued to read that per captia video game sales were $5.20 in the US compared to $47 in Japan (“Do violent”). Again showing that there is absolutly no corilation between video games and violent violent behavior.