NP - It's not the video games

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Which books do you have in mind?
The Bible? Blood Meridian? American Psycho?
Just curious.

On 18.12.2012 19:46, Henry M wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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