The White House put out a statement after the meeting, saying Trump «acknowledged some studies have indicated there is a correlation
between video game violence and real violence.»
The participants issued the fifth annual report on video game violence, saying researchers now indicated there was a direct correlation
between video game violence and violent tendencies in children.
The statement does add, however, that «the President acknowledged some studies have indicated there is a correlation
between video game violence and real violence.»
Despite this, there have been no studies indicating a connection
between video game violence and real violence.
After the tragic Columbine shooting in 1999, a strong focus was put on the shooter's love of violent video games like Doom, sparking a national debate over the correlation
between video game violence and violent tendencies.
But ESA President and CEO Mike Gallagher denied any connection
between video game violence and real - world violence.
Not exact matches
That does not mean that
video games prevent
violence, or that pornography curbs sexual crime, but it does highlight the difficulty in establishing a casual relationship
between any one medium and a group's behavior, let alone the actions of an individual.
Such work might include, for example, studies to understand the causes of and potential preventive strategies for gun
violence, including scrutiny of any association
between video games, media images, and
violence, as well as the collection of more comprehensive data on firearm - related deaths.
Although drawing conclusions about small population subgroups — such as kids at risk of
violence — from broad population trends can be dicey, it is still worth noting that as violent
video games proliferated in recent years, the number of violent youthful offenders fell — by more than half
between 1994 and 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The report also focuses on the need to explore «the relationship
between exposure to media
violence and real - life
violence» — a topic that has caused bitter disagreement, with some researchers arguing that mayhem in movies and
video games incites
violence, while others dispute any link.
In addition, the administration says it will ask Congress «to provide $ 10 million for the CDC to conduct further research, including investigating the relationship
between video games, media images, and
violence.»
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The actor would star in the docudrama about the clashes
between Rockstar
Games co-founder Sam Houser and a lawyer who sought to ban
violence in
video games.
Violence in
video games has been widely condemned by sections of the public over the years but it was always thought kids would be intelligent enough to make the separation
between reality and the
game they are playing.
Trump wants to explore link
between video games and
violence.
One attendee, Dave Grossman, has described first - person shooter
games as «murder simulators» and wrote in 2016 that experts who denied ties
between video games and
violence in youth will «be viewed as the moral equivalent of Holocaust deniers.»
In the 42 years since the National Safety Council bleated concerns to the New York Times about
gamers running down pixilated «gremlins» in the 1976 arcade
game Death Race, science has yet to find a connection
between video games and real - world
violence.
«We discussed the numerous scientific studies establishing that there is no connection
between video games and
violence, First Amendment protection of
video games, and how our industry's rating system effectively helps parents make informed entertainment choices.»
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Video games are enjoyed around the world and numerous authorities and reputable scientific studies have found no connection
between games and real - life
violence.
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between video games, school shootings, and gun
violence
Is there a link
between video games and
violence?
Public hearings on
video game violence and the so - called «society corruption» were held
between 1992 and 1993, and were headed by Senators Joseph Lieberman and Herbert Kohl.
Telephone lines are open for viewer comments on the relationship
between gun
violence and violent
video games.
A statement from the Electronic Software Association says «We discussed the numerous scientific studies establishing that there is no connection
between video games and
violence, First Amendment protection of
video games, and how our industry's rating system effectively helps parents make informed entertainment choices.
Update: The White House has launched the official checklist of anticipated attendees for immediately's assembly with online
game business heads regarding correlation
between violent
video video games and real - life
violence.
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Game Changer, a true - life account of a fight between the creator of Grand Theft Auto and a Miami lawyer who wanted to ban video game viole
Game Changer, a true - life account of a fight
between the creator of Grand Theft Auto and a Miami lawyer who wanted to ban
video game viole
game violence.
Though the link
between video -
game violence and the real kind, so often decried, is dubious and unproven, it is difficult to imagine that years of exposure to graphic depictions of death and dismemberment will not have some effect on young minds.
All we know, for now and the foreseeable future, is that there isn't a scientifically proven link
between the
violence we see in
video games and crimes committed in the real world and most of us, myself included, have never had the notion to want to go out and rip someone's spine out after playing Mortal Kombat X.
Video games are enjoyed around the world and numerous authorities and reputable scientific studies have found no connection
between games and real - life
violence.
There is no actual scientific evidence of a link
between video games and
violence, though it has reliably come up after every school shooting from Columbine to the present.
«To my knowledge there is no more connection
between gun
videos and gun
violence, as a class, than there is
between video games and gun
violence — and when I see someone doing something stupid with a gun, much like when I see someone doing something stupid with a car, it reminds me not to do that,» Enderle said.
The Entertainment Software Association released a statement saying it had brought up «the numerous scientific studies establishing that there is no connection
between video games and
violence, First Amendment protection of
video games, and how our industry's rating system effectively helps parents make informed entertainment choices.»
Searching for ways to respond to last month's Florida school shooting, Trump has questioned the impact of
video games, although decades of research have failed to find a link
between gun
violence and graphic depictions of
violence in
games.
In a statement yesterday, the Entertainment Software Association said: «We discussed the numerous scientific studies establishing that there is no connection
between video games and
violence, First Amendment protection of
video games, and how our industry's rating system effectively helps parents make informed entertainment choices.»
Earlier today, President Donald Trump met with
game industry executives and their critics to talk about the link
between video games and
violence, a topic many of us got sick of discussing years ago.
As has been shown countless times before, it is nearly impossible to perfectly identify the correlation and causation
between video games and violent behavior when
violence is always amok, surging through all the media in our lives.