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Greg Toppo Video Games
Sherry Nguyen
February 16, 2016
NHV A07
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Greg Toppo: Do Video Games Inspire Violent Behavior? The idea that there is a connection between violent media and the behavior of those that are exposed to it has been going on for centuries and continues to this day. Experiments have been done to try to prove that violent actions portrayed in media do correlate with violent behaviors in children who have observed it. After many violent acts such as the Columbine High School shooting and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, both where the perpetrators were avid video game players, more people began to believe that violent video games are what led to the violent acts of the perpetrators. Greg Toppo, author of, “Do Video Games
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