Navy Yard Shooting Essay

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In the article regarding a navy yard shooting where a man shoots and killed 12 people in a Washington Navy Yard has caused the government to reawaken a debate on violent video games and the implications of how violent video games and shootings are related. The man in question shot and killed 12 people and sources say that he would play around 16 hours of violent video games and thus brings the government to debate about whether there is a correlation between playing violent games and shootings. In the article they mentioned that the Navy contractor, friends and family who knew the person involved in the shootings say that he was a very active gamer who was very open about his love of games and many of his friends and family would say that playing …show more content…

The article also mentioned about many other shootings such as the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings and how the shooter involved also played lots of violent games and that could have sparked his violent nature and that led to him shooting. The article also mentioned the mass shooting at the Connecticut movie theater and how the person involved also played violent games and there are lots of speculation and lots of people correlating playing violent video games and real life violence. Personally I don’t believe that playing violent video games has a correlation between the shootings. From my experience I too have played lots of games and some that would be considered violent but I don’t feel an urge to be violent, or have tendencies to act aggressive because of a game that's considered violent . I also read about how most of the people involved in the mass shootings had some type of emotional stress and psychological problems prior to the actions that followed afterwards. I known lots of people who play violent games as well they aren't inclined to go on killing sprees, I feel that it depends more so on the mental state of the person and if they are having some sort of issues already,

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