Article: Influence Studied in New Year's Arson

This article talks about the "believed" and "assumed" influence put on by movies and video games. Around the time of the upcoming New Year, there had been a burglary that gutted the city's water and sewer department. Investigators came up with an insane theory that this incident had to do with relevant games. They mainly pin-pointed out the game Tony Hawk's Underground 2 because the mission is to complete a destruction tour. The two boys that did this are in being held in a regional Youth Detention Center in Rome, GA and both are 15. Chief Freeman thinks the arsonists may also have been influenced by the movie and video game "Fight Club" which is based on a book that relates to graphic violence. A 2005 study shows that violent video games can increase aggressive behavior in children and adolescents. The cost of this incident is more than a million dollars and the contents of the building were worth additional hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I think it is interesting how they say that "theres no evidence that mock violence makes people violent" and that "there's some evidence that make them more peaceful". What i think is more logical is that there's no evidence that can make a person turn either way. Though this was just an oppinion in the article, i do believe and agree that "parents should be aware of media influence, in other words watching what their kids watch and being involved with what they do on the internet." It also makes sense to me for people to think that video games and violent movies mold a human and their actions, BUT that is to an extent because either way a person is going to do waht they want to do in the end.