Is Media Making all of us Killers?

      While reading the article about video games influencing kids to become killers, or at least making it a path way to a more aggressive behavior. I felt like video games where being attacked harshly, I thought, well back in the day before video games, books also made people kill other for example Mark David Chapman, he was influenced by The Catcher and The Rye. I also thought well, there are millions of kids who do play video games each and every day but do not kill others. For example, all of my friends and I, maybe most people in my Communication, Media, and Information Technology class (or at least I hope). After cooling off a bit I noticed I was experiencing the hostile media effect, I was under the impression that the article was saying that the reason why Adam Lanza killed all those students and staff was because he was a call of duty player. I do however acknowledge that people are greatly influenced by what is around them but frankly I believe that people can easily distinguish real life from TV, movie or video games. There is a video where they give a fps player (10-year-old kid) a real gun to shoot, because the hypothesis is that since he is good in shooting games he can handle a real life gun. It was a controlled experiment and the kid's parents were there. When they gave the kid the gun he didn’t look frightened but once he shot it for the first time it scared him and he started crying. After that initial shot he didn’t want to touch the firearm again and hid behind his mother while crying. This is why I believe that even though we are constantly killing bad guys or even civilians (call of duty 2 airport mission), we are able to clearly identify the difference between video games and real life.