Please keep it civil.

Not a chance (comic books use to be the villain)

Yes and no. I don't think it is the games themselves, but rather the way that the players are separated from those that they interact with. I played plenty of them as a kid, many of them were violent. One of my favorite ones to play was DOOM, which is the one that got all the bad rap when Columbine happened. I don't hold games any more responsible for violence than playing cowboys and indians or cops and robbers with cap guns, which I also played a lot with my neighborhood friends. The key difference is, I was face to face with the others, and sometimes we would get into arguements or disagreements but we were forced due to the one on one interaction to deal with it right then. There was no screen to hide behind. Violent video games can provide an outlet for stress, but I think that individuals with sociopathic or psychopathic tendancies are putting themselves in environments that cause those tendencies to fester, get worse, and then the mind goes into a place that says "act out these things you did in GTA". It isn't the games, it's the way players are becoming so absorbed and out of touch with humanity that becomes a problem. There is a huge issue with mental health in the country, it's complicated.

Thats a new view point.I think your both right and wrong, too.

Psychopaths and sociopaths are everywhere around the world, but its really only America with the problem.If you look at Japan (One of the biggest consumers of video games) they have the same amount of psycho/sociopaths, but we have the bigger crime rate in guns (I just know gun crime rate, and that the biggest argument when it comes to video games anyway.)

About the part where the video games make the tendencies fester, I dont really think thats true, I think its more the person and how they perceive and deal with the game, and it more of a coorelation, and not causation type of deal.

No. Whatsmore, games may even prevent violence by releasing your rage on the game rather than on the people. But I'm not a neurologist, so I may be wrong.

I think youre right, good sir.

Please, you humble me. I'm only 16, likely the same age or just a tiny bit older than you.

hell to the no

No, I don't believe they do.

No. When I was little, I played a lot of Carmageddon, GTA SA, Battlefield 2, etc, and I never got my hands on a real gun or car made for killing pedestrians. The only way I could see that happening is someone with real mental problems thinking ''I should do that in school'', or ''I should do that in the streets''. I can't see someone with a normal civillian mind playing video games and going straight up psycho killer mode and murdering innocent people outside.

Thank you.

HELL NO!

THANK YOU!

The answer to this is obvious, yes and no. Yes, kids are feeble-minded and gullible and will do things that they think is the best, and with the toy companies creating weapons that are represented from the games, Who knows what can happen! But kids have a thing called sanity, this means they know the difference between right or wrong. Lets say if Timmy likes fortnite and shoots people whit his fortnite nerf gun, he still knows later in life what's right and wrong. Also, the only people that complain about this are talking about kids with issues, no offense to those people out there, and kids who had a hard life and rely on one thing to comfort them, and then they lose their sanity.

It depends. If a child is going through a lot and plays a violent video game, then it could. But a game like candy crush has NO Violence in it. So not all the time.

I may be wrong, though I believe there is a correlation between video games and gun violence or a dependency on guns. An example being the fact that the majority of anti-furries who (even as a joke) wish or threaten death on furries tend to talk fondly of violent games involving gore and the use of guns, sometimes claiming these games to be "experience" for an impending furry massacre.

No, there is no correlation between gun violence and Vedic games, or at least one that has been proven yet.

America is the only one with the gun problem, when other countries who are main consumers of video games, like Japan, China and the Philippines are not having the same problem.If you want to make it a bit more specific and say 'Gun violence twords furries' then like you said, it just a joke, a meme and should not be taken seriously, and I am unsure if there have been real life 'furry mass shootings' but I dont think there are, which proves that your argument that video games cause violence is invalid.

While I believe you're right about your argument overall and I will discard much of mine, I would like to clarify that the jokes are typically aimed at furries without much context, are graphic in nature and aren't classified as jokes until the creator's morals, legality or mentality are in question. BTW, I will answer your statement about mass shootings by saying that while an attack involving a jar of chlorine gas was the only successful attack (1 killed), one has been confirmed to have planned a mass shooting, but was stopped by the FBI after spilling the beans in a Facebook chat.

I agree with you on the part that people do make gore/violent jokes twords furries,

but we're straying from the main point.My question was,'do video games cause violence?' and you said in your previous response that,'Most anti-furries wish death and harm upon furries, and enjoy violent video games.'but that implies that not all of them like violent video games, (lets just say 90% of anti-furries like violent video games for the sake of argument) but if not all of them like video games, then thats correlation and not causation, because unless ALL anti-furries are violent and like violent video games, it cant be proven that the games are causing violent tendencies.

It depends

In 99.99% of people i would say NO, bit they may trigger some crazy person , but that crazy person more than likely would have been triggered by something else anyway??

I do think they give some children a sense of recklessness though.
The "reset" button doesnt exist in real life, you dont get an extra 1.

I believe it’s not the videogames that cause violence but the reality that videogames are an escape from that cause the violence.