NP - It's not the video games

[David Morris]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/17/ten-country-comparison-suggests-theres-little-or-no-link-between-video-games-and-gun-murders/

But it turns out that the data just doesn’t support this [video game]
connection. Looking at the world’s 10 largest video game markets yields no
evident, statistical correlation between video game consumption and
gun-related killings.

It’s true that Americans spend billions of dollars on video games every
year and that the United States has the highest firearm murder rate in the
developed world. But other countries where video games are popular have
much lower firearm-related murder rates. In fact, countries where video
game consumption is highest tend to be some of the safest countries in the
world, likely a product of the fact that developed or rich countries, where
consumers can afford expensive games, have on average much less violent
crime...
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