The Relationship Between American Gun and Gaming Culture which may Result to Mental Issues

The Intersection Between the American Gun Culture and Gaming
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The Intersection Between the American Gun Culture and Gaming
The United States has had to deal with the challenge of gun violence over the years. This essay tries to answer whether there is any relationship between gun violence and the gaming culture, which is sometimes exacerbated by mental health problems. Several games, including Doom, Call of Duty, and Grand Theft Auto, will answer this question. The United States is the leading country in the developed world, with many people killed each year due to gun violence. However, despite the large numbers of people killed, there is still opposition from some community sectors to have strict regulations on gun ownership. People opposed to the regulation claim that the problem in the United States is not the availability of guns but rather the gaming culture and mental health issues. Some theories that will be used to analyze gun violence and how gaming culture affects people include responsibilization theory, magic Bullet theory, and cultivation theory.
Does the interaction between the American Gun and Gaming culture contribute to gun violence exacerbated by mental health problems?
The Intersection Between the American Gun Culture and Gaming
 The availability of guns is not the reason why there are many mass shootings in the country. The number of people who purchased guns during the COVID pandemic has been high compared to other years (Sola, 2021). According to Sola (2021), society needs to try and understand why people desire to have guns. Several factors motivate an individual to own a firearm (Romer & Jamieson, 2014). Video games are of the factors that have been linked to the desire for people to have guns. The gun culture has become embedded in US society because the weapons have been normalized in the virtual world. The gun culture and gaming culture are symbiotic because the games increase the desire for a person to own a gun.
During the COVID pandemic, most people stayed at home either watching movies or playing video games. As more people became accustomed to seeing guns and using them in video games, they felt the need to buy the weapons (Sola, 2021). The main issue that society should be concerned about is why people desire guns and the interventions that have to be put in place to limit the desire to own a firearm. The more people have fun with virtual guns, the more they desire to buy the weapons (Romer & Jamieson, 2014). The guns should not be blamed for the mass shooting because this is not the root cause of the problem. Some people bought the guns, but they used the weapons to commit mass shootings because they had mental health issues.
 At the early stages of playing video games, a teenager may be sheltered from the need to buy a real gun (Turel, 2020). A video game will offer an alternative to purchasing and using a gun because they have virtual weapons. However, there are times when aggressive behaviors overpower the positive displacement force, which may make a person buy and use a gun for mass shootings (Turel, 2020). The increase in the use of firearms in...