In light of the recent school shooting in Germany politicians and law enforcement officials have been pushing for measures to prevent future tragedies. Unfortunately as often happens in the wake of incidents such as these those in power are devoting their efforts more towards punishing those easily blamed for the problem including the film and gaming industries.

The Harvard Crimson has published an editorial urging the officials to focus their efforts in a more positive direction instead of simply scapegoating those who had nothing to do with it. They remind everyone that even though studies show a correlation between aggression and video game playing that doesn’t give any proof that there is a cause-effect relationship between the two as well as the massive numbers of other variables involved.

They instead suggest that more effort should be put towards ensuring that guns are less likely to fall into the hands of youths. Recently Germany had tightened their gun control laws, but this event shows that the controls might not be strict enough.