Causes and Consequences of Gun Violence by Teens

We all can agree that gun violence is one of the most talked about topics nowadays. We also discuss the many methods to stop gun violence, but yet we have not found the solution, and every year the number of death within gun violence keeps increasing. We decide the future of the kids and teenagers, we either start a solution now or keep gun violence growing day by day. There are many methods that we could use, but we also have the resolution by showing and teaching our kids a better way of living. Here are a couple of ways that we could

Violent games

Not everybody will agree that violent video games are one of the reasons we have so much violence and deaths. I can assure you that anything that children see they will take that into action one great example of that is Albert Bandura's Bobo Doll Experiment where 72 children are separated into 3 different groups. The groups are divided into 12 boys, and 12 girls, and in one group they are shown being aggressive to the Bobo Doll even beating the doll with a hammer the other group is shown where the Bobo Doll is being ignored, and kids are playing with other toys. After the kids have seen the female or male done the action they are then put into the same room, and they act as to what they have seen, that's when they realized that kids will imitate what the person showed them. Here's a video showing the Albert Experiment. Unfortunately, violent games are the same way, kids will later put what they saw into action, but that not always the case. Not every child will become violent or act violently with a gun, but there many cases that teenagers reach a depression stage, and eventually the end up doing violent acts. Video games with violence should NOT be shown to kids. Especially if they are suffering at home or if they are suffering from any kind of mental problem.

Bullying

Often kids who are being bullied begin to grow hate against, their classmates causing them to do things such as shootings in schools. As of today kids and, teenagers can load a gun easily and even be able to have a gun. Jenny Park said that students who are cyberbullied through social media or email who three times more likely to access a loaded gun without adult permission, also fifteen percent of those who experienced both types of bullying reported access to a gun.

Overall violence is not something somebody is born with, its either build-up or something that is learned. With our actions, we bring out the good or bad out of somebody. We need to be checking on how our teens are feeling, what are their thoughts because we can never know what is their next step. Even if is for a new change or the death of somebody else or even themselves we should always be able to communicate with them.

Resources:

1. McLeod, Saul. 'Bobo Doll Experiment' SimplyPsychology 2014 https://www.simplypsychology.org/bobo-doll.html
2. Park, Jenny. 'Increased gun violence risk among bullied students' The Nation's Health September 2017 http://thenationshealth.aphapublications.org/content/47/7/E32