Do video games make you violent?

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Do video games make you violent?

This half-term (3rd November-19th December) we have been working towards a discursive essay about violent video games. We have researched several cases and added our own account / opinion of the effects on ourselves. In a few cases there have been kids that play a certain violent video game and have gone on massacres and rampages. Firstly I will talk about many kids with bad cases, and then I will give cases of good effects and finally my own opinion.

In West Paducah, Kentucky, United States of America about 11 years ago, Monday December 1st 1997 a boy, aged 14, named Michael Carneal, opened fire at a group of praying students killing 3 girls and wounding 5 others. This took place at Heath High School in Kentucky in America; the first victim was a freshman aged 14 named Nicole Hadley she lived for 12 hours and 45 minutes after several shots from the boy. The next was a seventeen year-old student named Jessica James she died in surgery that Monday afternoon. The last to die was one Kayce Steger aged 15; she died 45 minutes after the shooting, after her death her