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Many people are quick to make accusations why the children of this age are doomed. Recently, with the high school shootings, people are pointing figures to determine what has caused the recent outbreak of "youth violence." It doesn't seem like that youth violence ....

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.... is that people feel that video games are responsible for violence in youths. I have grown up with video games my whole life. I annihilate over a million aliens, monsters, and green slimy things every year. Yet, I have never felt compelled to commit any act of violence that I see on the screen. What is on the screen stays on the screen. I have known that from the very beginning. My parents taught me at an early age that what is on the screen is for fun, and it is not to be done off the screen. Video games actually act as a release. If there is trouble in the home or problems in school, one has the opportunity to play a video game to displace a ....