Through such games, youths will assume that they will be respected if they have guns when in fact, cannot distinguish the difference between the fear that people have for them at the point of a gun and respect for them as a person without a gun.
2.1.3 Abuse of the Internet.
Recent developments in information technology allows children to access computer networks which actively demonstrates methods of violence such as bomb construction and offers them vivid models of sexual violence as well. Since there have been more than a thousand papers published on the effects of violent media on behaviour, there has been a general conclusion that there is a consistent relationship between violent computer games and aggressive behaviour (Healey, 1997).
2.2 Easy Access to Firearms.
The many incidents of gun carnage often invokes the question of how guns are obtained by youths in the first place.
In a survey conducted by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, it was found that half of the respondents reported that obtaining a handgun would be "little" or "no" trouble if they wanted one. Among those who claimed they had carried a hand gun outside their home in the past 12 months, nearly half (48%) reported that they had been given or lent the gun by a family member or friend and 6% revealed that they had stolen or traded something for the gun. Another 35% said that they had bought the gun, most commonly from a family member or friend(Ferro, 2001). For example, within days of the Columbine tragedy, authorities had learned that three guns used in the massacre were purchased a year before by Delon Klebold's girlfriend shortly after her 18th birthday. On May 3rd, felony charges were filed against Mark E. Manes, 22, for admittedly selling Eric Harris. The TEC-DC9 semiautomatic handgun used in the shooting (Gibbs, 1999).
Many firearms move rapidly from first retail sales at federally licensed gun dealers to a black market that supplies juveniles with guns that supplies juveniles with guns (Ferro, 2001).
