There's still no link between video games and violence

[jpak]

https://www.pressherald.com/2019/08/06/theres-still-no-link-between-video-games-and-violence/

NEW YORK — Do video games trigger violent behavior? Scientific studies have found no link. But the persistent theory is back in the headlines following Saturday’s mass shooting in El Paso, Texas .

An online manifesto thought to be authored by the gunman briefly mentioned the combat game Call of Duty. Then President Donald Trump weighed in, charging Monday that “gruesome and grisly video games” contribute to a “glorification of violence.”

Trump’s statements were more reserved compared with his last brush with the subject in 2018, when he called video games “vicious” and summoned game-industry executives to meet at the White House , to little lasting effect.

The Entertainment Software Association, the biggest video game trade group, reiterated its position that there is no causal connection between video games and violence.

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[ismnotwasm]

1. No, plus children have always played violent war games as long as they have been allowed to play

Soldiers, cowboys and Indians, Space invaders. Probably Vikings and Angel-saxons.

I think video games and eventually virtually reality can be used to teach a number of valuable lessons about the costs of war.

[dlk]

2. I Think it's Safe to Say it's the Bullets From Assault Weapons that Kill People...

[flotsam]

3. Here's the thing

If video games cause violence why have there been no mass cannibalism Incidents?
(Pac Man)