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 .
The Entertainment Software Association, the biggest video game trade group, reiterated its position that there is no causal connection between video games and violence. Burroughs said that some studies show a short-term increase in aggressive thoughts and feelings after playing video games, but nothing that rises to the level of violence.
Patrick Markey, a psychology professor at Villanova University who focuses on video games, found in his research that men who commit severe acts of violence actually play violent video games less than the average male. About 20% were interested in violent video games, compared with 70% of the general population, he explained in his 2017 book"Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong.
In 2013, after the shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newton, Connecticut, Vice President Joe Biden held three days of wide-ranging talks on gun violence prevention, including a meeting with video game industry executives. After the 2013 meetings wrapped, the White House called on research on the effect of media and video games on gun violence but nothing substantial came out of that.
"They look scary. But research just doesn't support that there's a link" to violent behavior, he said.Actually, they already have one dating back to the 1990s. That didn't stop Trump from calling for one in 2018.
It's the guns.
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