If it turns out that videogames make only 1% of gamers more violent (especially lonely, bullied, socially dysfunctional ones), and end up being a decisively contributing factor in 50% of school shootings, should they be regulated?
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This is widely considered the authoritative study on the subject of a link between aggressive behavior and time spent playing video games. "There was no evidence for a critical tipping point relating violent game engagement to aggressive behaviour" https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.171474 …
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This is a single study in the UK, over 1004 individuals, and it did not contain a single shooter. It demonstrated that there was no linear response between game exposure and aggression. But imho it cannot show that actual shooters were not triggered by games.
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Virtual shooters try to emulate real life as much as possible as a selling point. So what is cause and effect here?
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I did not claim that games are a main cause of school shootings. The main contributing factors are mental instability, availability of guns, lack of integration etc. Games can only be a trigger.
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100% of shooters have access to guns. Should they be more strongly regulated?
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