NP - It's not the video games

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 08:49:12 CST 2012


Turner Diaries

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
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>> Which books do you have in mind?
>> The Bible? Blood Meridian? American Psycho?
>> Just curious.
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>> On 18.12.2012 19:46, Henry M wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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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