I know many kids who game and I myself am a gamer I play my favorite game Gta 5 all the time but this doesn't influence me to danger. I never thought of even using this kind of danger to someone I know or anyone in general . These games actually influence some kids to actually not do crime because they see how horrid it is to do such a thing to someone . In new york a high school plays a water gun fight for two weeks and takes this very seriously . I read an article by Guy Martin called ”High-Jinks:Shoot Out” , this is how I figured out about the game. I think that the water gun fight was a good idea because if someone were to go in the army they know of what to expect and tactics to hide and protect themselves. I know this water gun fight is nowhere near what to expect in the army but at least it’s some tactics.

Maybe also kids who do this also might be encouraged to want to join the army because they think they want to shoot guns and protect their country , this is actually a good thing because it can inspire more soldiers. In the article it says how the kids also called taxi drivers to participate in this. This shows that the kids put a lot of time and effort into this therefore they are getting good adulthood skills because this teaches them you have to work hard to succeed and you have to really put effort to something, this teaches them to work hard. I think this is also good because in the event they raised 360.00$ so that means kids were wanting to be able to enjoy themselves by playing this game for example they are probably all happy kids who like to have fun not kids who are always mad and wanting to hurt somebody .

I think these kids should be able to play these games. I think this because it’s no different from paintballing or laser tagging and these things are fun happy sports not dangerous. I also think that this would actually be better to do this because kids wouldn’t  try to do anything dangerous  ,they are happy playing the game because there having fun and for 2 if they have anger there letting it out by shooting people with fake guns instead of real .

I think a lot of people would disagree with me but I can understand in some ways why they do. For example , many say that this game could motivate kids to want to shoot a real gun at someone . Another reason is while kids play this game they might try to sneak a real gun and end up shooting the kids . This maybe could happen but chance are it won’t. A student in my class is not in favor of this game  the student says that he thinks this is bad because for example in paragraph 5 of the article it says that the kids hid in a minivan overnight in a walgreens parking lot to camp out and get somebody. He says “isn’t this taken just a little too far” well yes but no this could be a good thing and maybe a bad thing.This could be a bad thing because the kids may get arrested for sleeping in the public. This could be a good thing because this means the kids have knowledge to know where to hide and campout.Although he thinks this he does not convince me .I also don’t think this is really dangerous because I don’t think kids would really take this that far to kill someone with a real gun , I think people think too much on what could happen now days. I can see what people would argue this is bad but I still am in favor with my claim of that this is safe not dangerous.

Well my real question  is what do you think is this safe or is this dangerous?

About the author

My name is Tony and I grew up in St.Louis,Missouri , I still currently live in St.Louis today. I am in 8th grade and had to write a speech about a water gun fight in New York City. I’m a writer,and athlete.

Source:Martin,G[2009,June].” High-Jinks:Shoot Out.”The New Yorker.D1.