Video games have always been the go-to scapegoat for real world violence so it’s little surprise that a vocal doctor should make a link between the violence in videogames today and the alleged Charlie Kirk shooter, Tyler Robinson. However, the doctor’s take isn’t as simple as it may seem.
In an opinion piece for Fox News, Dr. Marc Siegel claimed that “extreme online immersion” is responsible for creating “lost boys” who are vulnerable to exploitation and violence. Robinson is supposedly one of these lost boys as it’s well known that he was into video games, or as Siegel puts it, he was “steeped in that world.”
