Do video games cause mass shootings

[Mamoru endou]

I figured since I'm on this forum I want to ask you all this, do video games cause mass shootings

 

[Denny Hamlin]

I honestly can't tell if you're joking or not but in all seriousness, there is no link between video games and violence

 

[Princess Viola]

No and people need to stop using video games (and other forms of media) as a scapegoat to lay the blame on instead of the poor state of mental healthcare in this nation.

 

[Xiahou Dun]

Yes and since video games are sold around the world this is why mass shootings is a modern worldwide epidemic and not like just a United States thing or something and there were zero mass shootings before Pong set foot on this world.

the poor state of mental healthcare in this nation.

Adequate mental health care might prevent some shootings but poor mental health is not a consistent profile of a mass shooter, and mental health is also too often appropriated as a distracting bludgeon and such to further stigmatize people suffering from mental health problems.

I do agree that it's a disgrace that large contigents of people in my country think owning killing boomsticks is a priority over universal healthcare and mental healthcare.

 

[Biddybud]

 

[Bob Craples]

 

[Dingodile]

No

 

[Xiahou Dun]

I'm still stunned that Walmart sells guns. It's like a ludicrous thing existing in futuristic dystopia. It's like the idea of a CVS or a Ross or Old Navy selling guns.

 

[Dingodile]

The one I live by doesn't.

 

[fantanoice]

What is this a debate from 1996?