![]() Markey says it's also historically a bipartisan distraction used by politicians who know video gamers aren't necessarily as vocal a voting block as, say, gun owners. LIMBONG: What these studies found is a slight increase in annoying behavior immediately after playing a violent video game but no actual violence. MARKEY: We actually see in the research world this explosion of studies examining violent video games and acts of aggression. LIMBONG: Patrick Markey is a research psychologist at Villanova University and author of the book "Moral Combat: Why The War On Violent Video Games Is Wrong." PATRICK MARKEY: Because the shooters played "Doom," they became this link. LIMBONG: The question itself - do video games cause violent acts? - has been asked for as long as video games have been around, but it grew in popularity right after the Columbine shooting. Boys and girls, violent games, nonviolent games - that wasn't really a useful piece of information about whether or not a parent saw aggressive behaviors in their young person. Last February, he released a study looking at the links between video games and aggressive behavior among teens.ĪNDREW PRZYBYLSKI: Mainly, we found a whole bunch of nothing, so we found pretty convincing evidence that it didn't really matter what kinds of games teenagers played. Andrew Przybylski is an experimental psychologist and director of research at the Oxford Internet Institute in England. LIMBONG: In fact, what the alleged murderer wrote was that he was doing just the opposite - hitting a soft target. Dan Patrick referenced the El Paso shooter's alleged manifesto, glossing over the paragraphs about immigration, Hispanics, interracial relationships, and instead taking a small reference to the game "Call Of Duty" out of context.ĭAN PATRICK: This manifesto - he talks about living out his super soldier fantasy on "Call Of Duty." LIMBONG: A few hours earlier on the same channel, Texas Lt. KEVIN MCCARTHY: The idea of these video games to dehumanize individuals, to have a game of shooting individuals and others - I've always felt that it's a problem for future generations. NPR's Andrew Limbong has more on how this myth has been perpetuated.ĪNDREW LIMBONG, BYLINE: There is no evidence so far that either shooter this weekend was a fan of video games, violent or otherwise, but that didn't stop Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy from saying this on Fox News yesterday. This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace.ĬORNISH: Trump is not the only politician to bring up the supposed connection between video games and mass shootings, but researchers have never proven that one leads to the other. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We must stop the glorification of violence in our society. When President Trump spoke today about the shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, he said this. ![]()
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