As a gamer myself, I can say that blaming violent video games for the violence occurring in the country is a spurious relationship at best.
Games and movies reflect society, not the other way around.
Does anyone think that Genghis Kahn got the idea to hop on his horse only after playing “Game of Thrones”?
Has anyone ever had to teach their toddlers to hit as opposed to not-hit?
Children have been playing games of war, "cowboys 'n injuns", "cops 'n robbers" etc since the beginning of time. They didn't need video games either, they just ran around outside and let their imaginations run wild. And more often than not they had improvised "guns" made out of whatever was laying around the house.
There were never any school massacres. Or if there were, they were recognized as wild deviation from normalcy.
Then in the past three or four decades the "child psychologists" and social workers and public educators and progressive politicians began insisting that "role-playing violence" was a bad, baaaaad thing. That kids shouldn't be allowed to play soldier or cops or robbers or especially Native Americans. We began being told that guns were intrinsically evil, that even the mere SHAPE suggesting a gun was a hazard to our individual and collective health.
So the kids were made to stop playing.
And that's about the time that the school shootings began in earnest.
Kids NEED a creative outlet to help them grasp and understand concepts they're just then getting introduced to. It doesn't make them any more violent. On the contrary: it probably makes them LESS inclined to violent behavior later on in life. Some researchers have suggested as much. That perhaps when children are allowed to be kids and play their harmless little games of make-believe, they're processing MUCH more about basic morality and what is right and wrong than we give them credit for.
Take that away and no wonder that some of them can't make that discernment as young adults.
Video games? We’re still feeling the effects of Elvis’ hips and above the knee beach wear. /s
Hey, govt, I got a starting point for ya: the Welfare State and your war on the nuclear family (aka responsible and self-sufficient people’s don’t need a nanny).
Sure, Hollywood is too big and dangerous to confront, so lets go after an industry that is dwarfed by Hollywood, video games. It’s up to parents to read the ratings or go online and do research. Not up to the government to start censoring video game content.