Fact check: President Trump suggests video games are to blame for mass shootings
that criticized the methodology and biases of the studies that the group chose to cite. The Supreme Court ruled in 2011 that there was
no evidence that violent video games motivated real life violence in an opinion authored by Justice Antonin ScaliaPrzybylski said his research has found that the player experience mattered more than the game's content, violent or otherwise., he rigged Tetris to be an extremely difficult game and observed measurable symptoms of aggression from players.
"The content of the games isn’t nearly as important as the structure of games — even if a game is violent, if you’re good at it, you have fun," he said."We made people really, really mad with Tetris." Chris Ferguson, a psychology professor at Stetson University who also signed that open letter to the APA, also said he has not found causation between violent games and violent behavior“The funny thing about Trump’s comments is we just did this last year — in 2018 after Parkland. His administration commissioned a school safety commission and I testified at it and a bunch of other people testified it. The conclusion from the commission was just ‘eh’ on the topic of video games,” he said.
That Trump commission had the Department of Education and Secret Service team up to produce a report about school safety, but the group’s recommendations about video games did"It’s outright weird that the president brings it up... when his own commission didn’t support this narrative," Ferguson added.“This is only going to distract us from real causes of violence," he said.
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