players. On the day of April 20, 1999, they were planning on using knives, guns, and bombs (Rosenberg 1). These two seniors walked into their high school with assault rifles and killed dozens of students and one teacher with another 21 injured. School shootings have happened before, and there have been dozens of copycats throughout the years. The shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, had spent a lot of time playing video games
“Gangsta rap made me do it.” Rapper and Los Angeles native, Ice Cube, stated it best in his 2008 hit. In the early 1990’s a subculture emerged that transformed rap music entirely and went on to affect an incredible amount of young people. Amidst rioting in Los Angeles and the election of President George Bush after Ronald Regan, this culture began to form as an outlet for young African American men to vent their frustration growing up in impoverished, neglected, and drug-ridden areas. These young
relationship between video games and violence and no evidences were given that video games do cause violence. “I don’t know that a psychological study can ever answer that question definitively” “we are left to glean what we can from the data and research on video game use that we have.” Michael R. Ward. Researches were conducted to show the relation between video games and violence, they were classified into three categories: short-term experiments, long-term studies and correlation studies. The