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Violent crime has decreased since the 1990s as video games (including violent ones) have continued to grow in popularity. If anything, this establishes that violent video games prevent violent crime.
Correlation is not causation. I agree that vidya doesn't cause crime, but the correlation is not proof of that.
I'm pretty sure that is the point