With the prevalence of mass shootings and our fearful reactions to them come discussions as to what causes these shootings. When the El Paso shooter reference Call of Duty, a first person shooter (Romano), the recurrent blame on video games was brought up once again. Since violent video games have the player directly engage in reproducing violent behaviour, it isn’t unfair to criticise these games of encouraging violent behaviour. However, not only is the causal link unclear (Fournis 2), but accusing video games prevents us from finding the root cause behind shootings. In fact, blaming…