Unless you're a member of the GOP and by extension, a fully-benefited employee of the NRA, you probably understand that attributing gun violence to video games is absolutely absurd.
Despite extensive research that would suggest the contrary, President Donald Trump and his base recently reaffirmed their position that video games are the culprit for the United States particular brand of racially-motivated social vigilante - as per his agreement for representing the republican party. At this point in American politics, it just comes with the gig that Republicans be diametrically opposed to fact-based reason.
While violence in video games has been fueling conservative-leaning ideology since the early 90's with the original Mortal Kombat, the issue has really come to a head in recent weeks with the back-to-back shootings that took place in Ohio and Texas. In typical fashion, the GOP refuses to acknowledge its own hate-eliciting rhetoric as being the cause of this latest wave of racially-motivated murders, and instead would rather once again place the blame on a medium of entertainment that - on a global scale - far from merits the accusations it has received here in the states.
The talking points used to position video games as the cause of violence could likely be recited in one's sleep at this point, since they have been repeated time and time again to reinforce the idea that America's violence-pandemic should be blamed on the "glorification of violence in our society". It is an exceptionally trivial argument since one would need to be intentionally ignorant in order to dismiss the fact that other country's video game revenue would suggest we are not unique in our consumption of video games.
To further reinforce the absurdity of the GOP's claim, one researcher ,who helped lead studies on video games impact on the psyche, suggested to The New York Times that blaming violence on video games is about as conclusive as bananas causing suicide. His isn't making an anecdotal dismissal of a substantiated scientific claim - it's literally the closest comparison he could come up with that adequately expresses the distance between video games and our country's generational wave of mass shootings.
