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A car is hijacked and its driver is shot in the head. Outrage is voiced. Accusations are lashed. Debates are launched. Presidencies are questioned. Why? The answer is Call of Duty, GTA, World of Warcraft, and many others; violent video games. Everyone knows that theyre harmful. What exactly do violent video games cause? Lowered school performance is one of the worlds most pressing issues nowadays. Has the international community contemplated its reasons? If one reviews the studies conducted, one realizes that 90% of its causes is the effect of another major concern. Violent video games lead to attention deficits. That alone can disrupt a students GPA drastically. Hyperactivity, additionally, may result in acts of delinquency and aggression perceived by its performers as innocuous and amusing. Therefore it is safe to say that violent video games may be the root cause of lowered school grades. One wont believe those types of games can do to a teenager psyche. Extended periods of playing time doubles the amount of dopamine released in the brain. It has the same effect of Ritalin or amphetamines shot straight into the blood stream. Its believed to be related to pleasure hence it is chemically addictive. Furthermore, these games are prone to develop suicidal tendencies in their players. Insensitivity to violence is another one of their dangerous side effects. The fore mentioned effects combined may easily lead to the demise of a society. People may be concerned most with the physical effect of such games because its the most tangible. Vision problems, myopia e.g., are triggered by prolonged staring at a screen. In addition to that, wrist, finger, and hand injuries may occur after long hours of playing. When the player is constantly being subjected to severe violence, s/he perceives all threats within the game as actual one, meaning s/he is in continuous fear. Thus violent video games may cause cardiac arrhythmia. Where studies are concerned, the jury is still out on whether violent video games effect players negatively or not, but there is no doubt that this generation needs protection from the poison that is being injected straight into their brains. They can protest, debate, and rebel all they want, however, they cannot save the children of this century without taking effect measures. The public may wonder can a simple video game do all that?. The answer is yes it can.