Psychology Today: TV, video games ‘encourage kids to use guns’

Published August 6, 2019 7:11pm ET



When President Trump cited violence in media and video games as a driver of mass shootings like those last weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, he was met with mockery by critics.

But a newly published Ohio State University in Psychology Today said that there is a direct link to the gun violence children see and their use of guns.

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