There has been so much speculation and FUD surrounding a potential connection between violent video games and violent crime; it's tempting and easy to blame thi

There has been so much speculation and FUD surrounding a potential connection between violent video games and violent crime; it's tempting and easy to blame things like mass shootings on violent video games. I appreciate you're not doing that Personally I do not believe there is a noteworthy connection between violent games and violent crimes. Anecdotal, but I myself played plenty of violent games and I'm a borderline pacifist. I don't even kill bugs if I can help it. (Exceptions made for things that try to eat me or my food...) I just enjoy the competitive nature of the games. My only point in all this is that critiquing this study because there's a negative correlation between violent video game usage and violent crimes on a societal level is contributing to uncertainty and doubt parts of the FUD. Rather, I would critique the report itself for appearing (as you noted) to be fairly FUDsy and as other commentators have noted, not particularly rigourous.