With the seemingly weekly mass shootings at this point, government officials from both sides are suggesting their own causes for these shootings. Some republican figures have put a direct correlation between the increase of violent video games and the increase of mass shootings. Their logic is that peoples actions inside the game are being emulated in real life, except that is just not the case. They speak of "We must stop the glorification of violence in our society"(romano) yet we all know that plenty of people went to see a john wick movie and that some people have the common sense to not go pile as many bodies as they can. It's frustrating that people in power are using a hobby as a scapegoat. In South Korea, they play way more video games than Americans yet there are hardly any cases of mass shootings. It appears to be the most recent scapegoat used before it has been rock and roll and other things enjoyed by the youth. It is just absurd how this is still used as a common argument on national tv.
://www.vox.com/2019/8/26/20754659/video-games-and-violence-debate-moral-panic-history
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