The Relationship Between Video Game Violence And Societal Violence

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In recent years, media has had increasing number of frames which contain violence content to attract viewers. Violence, of course, is not a new concept, it has been around since the beginning of civilization. Since the 1920s, it has seemed a new phenomenon, scholars and politicians have blamed violence in movies and other media as an element to rising violence in society. “Recently the responses to mass shootings in Aurora, CO, and at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Connecticut, followed this theme as media consumption came into the equation” (No Link Found Between Movie, Video Game Violence and Societal Violence,2014 NOV 23 -Vertical News). Both events have garnered national and international attention, in turn prompting arguments in gun-rights