Video Games@piefed.social · 3 months ago

Video games don’t cause gun violence. The evidence is overwhelming.

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Video Games@piefed.social · 3 months ago

What does? Guns. Actual guns.

The APA states there’s no causal link between violent games and real-world shootings:

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/03/violent-video-games-behavior

Meanwhile, a landmark meta-analysis shows firearm access doubles the risk of homicide:

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M13-1301

So stop blaming pixels. The real danger isn’t on a screen—it’s in the guns scattered across our communities.

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FAKE NEWS! The evidence is whatever Donald Trump says it is…

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