Videogames and Violence The blame game
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Videogames & Violence The Blame Game
We are living in an age of technology. Videogames have emerged as a thriving industry. Just within the last five years, videogames have grown to be a billion dollar industry in the United States (NPD Group). They are a legitimate form of entertainment and are giving competition to television, movies, and radio, etc.
With the explosion of videogames in the last decade came a rise in controversy surrounding videogames and violence. On June 25, 2003, two stepbrothers, 16-year-old William and 14-year-old Joshua Buckner, took shotguns down to Interstate 40 near their hometown of Newport Tennessee and open fire on vehicles that were passing by. The boys injured 19-year-old Kimberly Bede, who was shot in the pelvis, and killed 45-year-old Aaron Hamel, a register nurse from Knoxville who was traveling in a separate car. The boys told police that the reason they were firing at cars was because they were emulating a videogame called Grand Theft Auto. The boys plead guilty, and the family of Aaron Hamel has filed a lawsuit against TAKE2interactive, the videogame maker of Grand Theft Auto. (ABCNews...