Many people are quick to claim that many violent attacks are a result of playing video games, but people are quick to forget that in the past, the same has been said of television, film, and even books. There have been many studies conducted on the relationship between aggression and video games conducted over the past few decades, and many have found that there is a correlation between video games and violence, but any university student will have heard the phrase "Correlation does not equal causation." To put this another way, most cocaine users are likely to smoke. That does not mean that if you smoke, you are going to start using cocaine. FBI profiler Mary Ellen O'Toole believes that blaming video games for violence is counter-productive, taking focus from the real root of the problem. The perpetrators of these seemingly random acts of violence will always have other issues, but people continue to blame video games. Here are ten examples of incidents where video games appear to have resulted in bloodshed. Whether video games are to blame or not is up to you to decide.
Title: Top 10 Violent Crimes Caused by Video Games
Published on May 1, 2014
Uploaded by: TopTenz
