Pushing Buttons: Why linking real-world violence to video games is a dangerous distraction

In this week's newsletter: Tragic shootings in the US have resurrected the disproven theory games turn people into killers. Why does this myth persist?

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Remember how, in the wake of yet more awful shootings in the US this month, Fox News decided to blame video games rather than, you know, the almost total absence of meaningful gun control? Remember how I said last week that the video-games-cause-violence argument" was so mendacious and nakedly manipulative that I wasn't going to dignify it with a response?