It is getting easier and more accessible for minors to buy violent video games, causing increasing anger issues in more and more minors. Something needs to be done about violent video games. I'm not saying they should get rid of them but they should enforce the age restriction from the rating system more seriously. I've seen it first-person happen at a store. A minor around the age of 14 or 15 goes up to the counter with cash and buys an M-Rated game and the cashier just gives him the game. When I was a minor all of the stores were very strict about selling M-rated games to minors. I remember when I got an Xbox 360 when I was 13 and I wanted to get this video game that I wanted which was a T-rated game for teen which is 14 and older, Since I was not 14 they did not let me get the game without a parent. This would be a great step in the right direction to start enforcing that parents have to be there in order to get a violent video game so the parents at least know about it.
This graph represents the effects of minors playing violent video games and the family environment. You can see with both lines on the graph they increase. It gets worse with a low-family environment, it gets to almost 1.5x the amount from High-Family Environment. This increase is causing more acts of violence from violent video games. For example, there was a case in Louisiana where an 8-year-old had killed an 87-year-old woman because he was running around killing people on Grand Theft Auto IV, or some of these school shootings that are happening are also from these games like Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto. There have been more and more cases of this happening in the United States every year as technology gets more advanced and violent video games to get more enticing. At some point, something has to change and it starts by recognizing what is causing the problem.. https://www.msnbc.com/thomas-roberts/did-grand-theft-auto-turn-8-year-old-msna154301
There are lots of ways to fix this problem, but there are only a few that will be effective. Enforcing the rating system for these violent video games would be a great start. If stores that sold M-rated video games (18 or older games) get fined every time they get caught selling to someone that is under the age of 18. Another solution would be to remove all first-person shooting games and games that have any sort of violence in them which is a very unpopular solution because there are a lot of people that play these games that are older than 18 years old. The best solution would be to either have a parent buy the game so the parent knows about the game and can have a better understanding, as well as enforce something that fines a store for selling to minors that are under the age for the game rating.