After mass shootings, some American politicians habitually turned to video games. Texas Senator Ted Cruz did just that in the wake of the serious shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas. In addition to broken homes and lower church attendance, the desensitization of murder in video games has contributed to the prevalence of mass shootings, he said. But his views elicited little repercussions in the media, almost unscathed, showing that the idea that video games fuel mass shootings is no longer popular . Over the past few decades, numerous studies have found no correlation between violent game play in early life and aggression in adulthood.
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