NP - It's not the video games

[Henry M]

Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Catcher in the Rye.  Communist Manifesto.
 Das Kapital.


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


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> 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> 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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