Desensitization Informative Speech

How many of you play video games? Alright, now keeping your hands up, how many of you have a family member or a friend that plays video games? So, if we look around, the majority if not everyone in this classroom has some sort of connection involved with video games. Now, especially with recent tragedies that have occurred, violent video games have come under fire by many people as the cause for desensitizing and resulting in aggressive actions and crimes. However, this is a false notion that does not really hold any value in the real world. Today, I will be discussing three reasons why violent video games do not desensitize the average person in our society.

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I. We shall first discuss what desensitization is and why lab-based experiments

If we first dive into the cases where Grand Theft Auto 5 was a major cause of a crime in the United States since its release in 2013, we can really come up with only two cases.

1. According to an article called Zachary Burgess Allegedly Stole Truck, Kidnapped Woman, As Part Of ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Reenactment published by HuffPost on September 25, 2013 a 20-year-old man named Zachary Burgess was arrested for kidnapping a woman, stealing a truck, and ramming several parked cars. He committed these crimes to experience "real life Grand Theft Auto" after playing Grand Theft Auto 5.

2. According to an article published by International Business Times called GTA 5: 14-year-old Boy Kills Father and Brother 'Inspired' by Violent Character Trevor, a fourteen-year-old named Samuel got into a fight with his father after his father allegedly opened fired outside the home while coming in. Samuel then became enraged, as the character Trevor in GTA V performs at times, and shot and killed his father. In his rage, he also killed his 13-year old brother.

B. The reason behind me providing these reports is to show how little violent video games affect people in real-life scenarios.

1. The lack of actual reporting that is provided is disturbing due to the amount if violent video games do indeed desensitize

If we assume that from 2013 to 2017 one hundred thousand violent crimes were committed in the United States, we can divide that by the number of copies sold and we will see that we will get a very small percentage of crimes per copy sold.

C. According to the article, Violent Video Games and Real-World Violence: Rhetoric Versus Data, published on 2014 by the American Psychology Association, when there are releases of a popular violent video game, the amount of homicides and assaults committed during the next three months either decreases or stays the same.

1. If we look at these sets of graphs, we can see that this claim is true with June-July being the months that have the most homicides and aggravated assaults being committed while video game sales are on the low side. If we fast forward later in the year, we can see that assaults and homicides occur less during November-January while video game sales are at their best-selling point.

2. The study rightful claims that it cannot determine that violent video games decrease crime, however it does state that it shows that violent video games do not increase crime.

III. Now, we shall finally dive into some of the reasons that people who think violent video games cause desensitization and even though on the surface they seem logical, a deeper inspection shows that this is not the