Unit 1 summary

I am mainly going to focus on the reason why most violent acts happen. My main argument is that it has almost everything to do with mental illness. Two articles are going to make the arguments as to why they think it has mostly to do with violent video games. Some questions that I will bring up would be: 1) Why do you think the media is being associated with the violent shootings that have been recently taking place? And 2) Studies show that almost all, or even every one of the shooters have been diagnosed with mental illnesses, depression, or family problems. Do you still think that violent videos games and violent movies play a role in violent occurrences? In reaction to the first question, my “featured guests” will argue that everyone has access to technology now and movies have become more influential than ever. Which I would respond to by asking, “even if movies are becoming extremely influential, do you that justifies someone killing multiple innocent people just because they saw it on the big screen?” In response to question two, my guests would argue that movies and society influence each other. Furthermore, they would make a point that they don’t think that this caused people to go out and kill innocent people, but that the movies definitely influenced people, even if all it did was put the idea into their heads. At some point, I will make the argument that video games and movies are being blamed for the cause of violent shootings when really the problem is much deeper- mental illness.