Violence in Video Games

Now, whenever a young mass shooter occurs in America, violent video games are always cited as the culprit. However, there is a lot of proof that playing popular, violent video games can have good, transient consequences. Therefore, it appears that the several times that game content filtering has been suggested have been ineffective.

Crime rates steadily decreased in the years following the advent of popular violent video games like those in the Grand Theft Auto series, according to a 2014 study published by the American Psychological Association. According to research done in 2011 by the University of Baylor and the Centre for European Economic Research, violent video game sales increase by 10% without increasing crime by more than 1%.

The unfortunate conclusion was that society profited from how the games kept individuals whose brains hadn't fully developed too occupied with a constructive activity to go out and commit crimes, which still seems preferable to the alternative.