Well, that’s fascinating.
Doesn’t mean its related (post hoc fallacy), but still interesting.
Of course it makes a certain amount of sense from the government side - the government is ALWAYS looking to allocate power to itself at the expense of others.
Actually, there is a proposed causal mechanism: violent video games provide an outlet for youthful agression, which otherwise finds its outlet in antisocial behavior, including crime. There are finer statistics focusing on crimes by young people that find drops in the wake of each release of a very popular first-person shooter or two-player fighting game (e.g. the Mortal Kombat series).