• RFK Jr. on Mass Shootings: “there could be a connection with video games”

    by on September 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM, EDT

    RFK Jr.

    In a recent press conference, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) listed video games as a potential cause for recent mass shootings alongside drugs and other factors.

    RFK Jr. is United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under the Trump administration.

    Discussions about violent media and the potential impact they may have on individuals in distress have been going on for decades. Critics claim that violent video games and similar material lead to real world acts of violence. Whether that’s Jack Thompson railing against Doom or the United Nations saying that fictional media can incite violence against women.

    Over the many, many, years this argument has been made research consistently affirms that violent video games do not correlate to an increase in violent behavior. This study has been repeated by multiple sources; including studies from the normally censorship-happy UK.

    Kennedy also mentions other more likely causes of increased violence, including increased drug use.

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