NP - It's not the video games

[David Morris]

Atlas Shrugged


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> Tale of Two Cities.
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> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Turner Diaries
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>> 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:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Which books do you have in mind?
>> >> The Bible? Blood Meridian? American Psycho?
>> >> Just curious.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 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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