I 100% agree. I never read the full manifesto, but have read parts about it. What gets me is that he was trying to get Zapor to agree with him, and at one point it seems like he was going to ask him if he suggests that video games desensitized people, but then he quickly changed his mind. Thankfully, Zapor was actually smart and didn't fall into that line of questioning.
Whenever a mass shooting happens, it's always video games. In 2022, you would think that the media would be better than that. But then again, they like causing fear in parents that don't know any better.
I honestly hope we hear less and less on this angle. Fox in particular targets cable-watching boomers... who haven't been into games so much so of course their audience will agree with them. Gen X, Gen Y, Millennials and Gen Z have been playing games their entire lives and know it's absolutely not true... so hopefully this uneducated argument dies out and maybe we can actually start to work the actual documented reasons on why people are getting radicalized enough to cause mass murder.
That's the thing. Blaming video games is as stupid as blaming MacDonalds because the shooter use to eat there.