Why Do Video Games Cause Violence

According to Christopher J. Ferguson in ¨Video Game Violence and Pseudoscience: Bad Science, Fear, and Politics¨ from Skeptical Inquirer, Video games are not the cause of violence in young children or teens. This article presents the fact that there is no proven evidence of video games causing violence in children or young teens. It goes through and discusses the theory of how video games cause violence and gives an example most people use when trying to prove it. When Reporting about all of the school shootings, Ferguson discusses how these kids play violent video games but there's not enough evidence, because officials don't know how much these kids play games. It is a hard topic between most people, but some feel very strongly about it. The article attempts to prove the fact that video games do not cause violence. In
¨Aggression in video gamers comes from failure,not violent content¨, similarly writes about how video games do not cause violence but cause aggression. ¨Researchers found that failure to master a game and its controls led to frustration and aggression¨ (Aggression in Video Gamers). When most people think of school shootings caused by young people, they want to immediately blame it on video games if they know that child or not. Just because video games are a big part in young people's lives. The author gives multiple examples of various experimental testing on nearly 600 college aged people to see how they would feel after doing all sorts of testing with video games. Concluding the study, all that it came down to was a short term aggression coming from frustrating video games. In this article it mainly wishes to point out that aggression can come from video games, but that aggression is not going to cause the person to want to kill people. The study is to show that yes, aggression can happen, but most likely it will just be throwing down a controller and being frustrated (Aggression in Video