A speaker who argues that violent video games lead children to become involved in destructive and illegal activities is using which type of reasoning?

Causal reasoning

Explanation:

This is a process of trying to establish causality. That is what causes an event to occur and the effect of that occurrence. From the speakers argument, the effect of violent video games is destructive and illegal activities in children. While the cause of these activities are violent video games. Causality reasoning uses cause-effect relationship between two things to analyze situations.