s of three slain girls in the Heath Schoolshootings are going after the manufacturers. They feel that violent video games are partiallyresponsible for their children's death. They claim that the video game taught the shooter how to bean excellent marksman. The boy had never used a gun, but was skilled enough to hit eight movingtargets in only eight shots (Prichard). Another fact that backs up the parent's belief is that ofmilitary training. Each year billions of dollars are spent to train police and the military how toshoot. Video simulation is the best way to help overcome the natural resistance that most peoplehave about shooting someone. Studies show that people are extraordinary susceptible toprogramming. One main difference between military training and video games is that militaryinstructions are constantly pausing the action and where the video game is in constant action(Blakemore). There is no direct relationship between the number of guns and the amount of crimein the United States. Between 1973 and 1992, the rate of gun ownership increased by forty-fivepercent while the homicide rate during that period fell by nearly ten percent. Even with theincreasing number of guns in society the homicide rate decreased, highlighting that guns are notthe root of the problem, people are. Guns do not kill people, people kill people. Guns do notwork as self-protection against criminals. Guns are just as valuable to civilians as they are topolice officers. As many as sixty-five lives are protected by guns for every life lost to a gun. Everyyear potential victims kill between two thousand and three thousand criminals, and wound anadditional nine thousand to seventeen thousand. Private citizens mistakenly kill innocent peopleonly thirty times a year, compared to about three hundred and ten mistaken killings by police.Criminals succeed in taking a gun away from an armed victim less than one percent of the time.Gun control laws are needed to preven...
