In the eyes of some people, reenacting moves of cool characters in video games will make them cool too. This leads people to start something violent like in the video games in life.  The people who play video games don’t see the dangers. They think that just because the people in video games don’t actually die when they get severely injured, they won’t either.

There are many video games that have consequences if you imitate the actions they do in real life. For example, if you imitate something from Grand Theft Auto, you can really get hurt and hurt others really badly that you might even kill someone. You are doing violent physical actions toward other people or their property, it is against the law and you can be arrested. But the video games make harmful actions look so cool and fun that players want to do the actions in real life.

A lot of teens have parents and families that don’t watch what they do in their spare time. For instance, parents just buy a game without knowing what the game is about or what the rating is. They don’t know that the game they have just purchased for their child may cost the child’s life, because of the violent simulations. Is the loss of a life worth entertainment?

It’s not that hard to check out what type of games they are buying. There are reasons for the ratings on games; some kids just aren’t mature enough to play the games that are rated mature. In Grand Theft Auto, it involves lots of killing, a shooting spree, and even murdering the police. Players also run away from the law in it as well. Parents think that their children are mature enough for it, but getting older does not mean that you will actually become more mature.

There are crimes committed by young people because of what they saw in video games. A game called Man Hunt was banned in London, England, because it inspired a teenager to kill his friend. In the game, the more violent your killings are, the more points you score. The teenager was so addicted to playing Man Hunt that he copied what he saw in the game on a friend of his.

Even if some people know better than to do crazy things, others don’t. I’ve seen people who would always play video games and just go crazy if you turned it off on them. If you knew someone who likes to imitate things that they see, wouldn’t you want them to be safe? Just keep in mind the many dangers that lurk inside video games.