Violent Media Is Good

Brie Velasquez

English Comp 102

Professor Santamore

3-1-2017

        Violence plays a vital role in everyone’s day to day lives. However, many parents today try their best efforts to keep violent media out of the children lives. The author of this article Gerard Jones feels violent media is important aspect in children’s lives. Jones claims that violent media helped branch out of social awkwardness as tween. Reading superhero comics made Jones more open to life and inspire him to make friends with the same interest.  Jones shows through his own personal experience and research that violent media and entertainment are both important for children to explore their inescapable feelings.

        I agree with the author that children should have violence in their adolescent years. Violence is aspect that no one can’t escape in life. Parents can try their best to protect the children from the world around with homeschooling and controlling what their children watch or play. However, that child is going to move out one day and see that the world is violent and cruel. I grew up reading comic books and playing some hardcore violent video games, in a way I believe that those video games and comics shaped me into the person I am today. The comics and games taught me at a young age that the life is hard, unfair, and brutal. Therefore, when I hit my teenage years I wasn’t shocked on how rough high school could to me because I was already prepared for it. Most news stories today talk about how violent games are bad for children, the media blames the creators of the games for making children violent. I always thought that blaming the creators of the games were wrong. It’s all about self-control and if child has it or not. I played violent games or read violent comics and I never hurt anyone in my life. Children should have violent media in their live, but it should be regulated if some children has no self-control over themselves.