Fox News Suggests Mass Shootings Have 'Gotten So Much Worse' Because of Violent Video Games

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Multiple mass shootings took place in the US this past weekend. One of these mass shootings happened at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, where an 18-year-old white male shot and killed 10 people while injuring three others. The shooter's alleged manifesto indicates that the attack was racially motivated — a theory that is backed up by the fact that 11 of the 13 victims were black. Assuming the manifesto is legitimate, the shooter is a self-described white supremacist and fascist, inspired by far-right rhetoric and conspiracy theories like the «Great Replacement» theory.

The Buffalo shooting is being extensively covered in US media, including Fox News. In the Sunday episode of Fox Report, host Jon Scott spoke with former ATF agent Bernard Zapor about the shootings that took place this past weekend. In a viral clip of the segment, Scott brought up violent video games. «It seems like these things have gotten so much worse since video games became so realistic and so violent,» Scott said. Scott then asked Zapor if video games desensitize people to «the actual results of pulling a trigger.»

Study Shows No Significant Link Between Video Games and Youth Violence

Zapor did not outright blame violent video games for mass shootings in his response, instead pointing to digital communication and a perceived decline in face-to-face interaction in general, saying that «We're communicating through a medium that was never really intended as a human being.»

Ever since the 1999 Columbine massacre, video games have been blamed for causing mass shootings and other violent acts. Numerous studies have been conducted over the years that have found no connection between video games and violence. There have been some studies to suggest that