I would laugh at these, but at this point I'm so tired of this c**p. It's the same old "let's blame video games so we don't have to do anything about the real reasons like mental heath or gun accessibility". It's complete stupidity from people you'd think would be smart. 😑

Hey!! #26 is offensive to me (said sarcastically). I am a middle aged white woman who plays video games (i.e, assassin's creed, crysis).

Well they do cause violence. So far for around 20 years my victims are a few mice and a lagging wireless router. And the mice died of old age.

For those of us old enough for this: remember when all of our parents were terrified of Dungeons and Dragons because it would make us "devil worshipping killers with no grip on reality"? Good times. It should, however, leap to mind when we see this kind of unmitigated pig $#!÷ applied to video games. Take a deep breath, because this is a deep dive: in mentally stable people, heavy metal music does not cause killings (mass hysteria largely began in the 60's and still around today), fantasy role playing games do not loosen our grip on reality and cause us to kill, and violence in movies and video games do not cause violence in real life. Mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse and institutionalized support of extremism and idiocy, however, absolutely does cause all of these things. Stop blaming things that are easy to target and start doing the hard work it will take to truly address the real causes. I know, not going to happen, but I like to live in hope while I build my newest D&D character. :-)

I feel like the GOP has been so strongly supported by older people in the past they’re missing that their new younger voters smoke pot, play video games and aren’t very religious lol

If as an outsider am dreading hearing about another deadly shout out,I wonder how people living over there will feel.

you p ranked this. good job.

people are actually trying to get video games banned because of fortnite, thanks epic for turning EQ3 into a game that people now bully each other on

Them: video games cause violence me: *is on minecraft, farming and building another room for the house while my brother mines for resources*

I think what most people misunderstand, and get their gamerboy knickers in a knot because of it, is that this isn't just a "video game" issue. It's not that video games "cause" violence, as in they don't directly turn someone into a zombie and compel them to kill, it's the surrounding culture - it's the overall glorification of violence in American culture. It's celebrated in all forms of media INCLUDING but not EXCLUSIVE TO video games. And the comparisons to other countries is illogical, they have entirely different economic, value and cultural systems. Video games are not some sort of outlier, they're a multibillion dollar industry just like pornography, film and music, and shouldn't be exempt from the critical assessment of their value and affect on society - EVERYTHING has an impact on society. It's worth looking at what actually increases violent incidents and stop being so reductive and simplified from either end of the spectrum.

I guess that’s just the excuse their giving for people for being s****y parents, letting bullies get away with being d***s and severe mental health issues that could have been solved though some gold old fashioned therapy. But let’s continue to give these crazies guns because we need more shootings in America; it’ll build character.

There is no single cause but to think that the isolation created by playing video games all day isn’t a small part in at least some of these shootings is naïveté at its best. It’s not entirely a gun control issue, it’s not entirely a mental health issue, and it’s not entirely a video game issue either of course. It’s far more complicated than a single root cause.