NP - It's not the video games

[Henry M]

Just as the correlation of booze to hard drugs is greater than pot to hard
drugs, it appears to me that books are more likely to lead to gun murders
than are video games.

Yours truly,
٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
Henry Musikar, CISSP
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20



On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:53 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/17/ten-country-comparison-suggests-theres-little-or-no-link-between-video-games-and-gun-murders/
>
> But it turns out that the data just doesn’t support this [video game]
> connection. Looking at the world’s 10 largest video game markets yields no
> evident, statistical correlation between video game consumption and
> gun-related killings.
>
> It’s true that Americans spend billions of dollars on video games every
> year and that the United States has the highest firearm murder rate in the
> developed world. But other countries where video games are popular have
> much lower firearm-related murder rates. In fact, countries where video
> game consumption is highest tend to be some of the safest countries in the
> world, likely a product of the fact that developed or rich countries, where
> consumers can afford expensive games, have on average much less violent
> crime...
>
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