Read all in the link inside that. Listen to the substance of it. Consider the pros and cons of it. Don't just defensively react in protection of your tribe.
Your violent video argument holds little if any substance either.
Violent Video Games Don't Make You Mean
By Ross Pomeroy - July 6, 2013
In December of last year, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, attempting to deflect blame from the gun industry for the recent, horrific mass-shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, proclaimed the following:
"There exists in this country a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people. Through vicious, violent video games with names like Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto, Mortal Kombat and Splatterhouse."
The statement's basic, boiled-down gist was this: guns don't make people kill people, violent video games do.
LaPierre's assertion is backed by emotionally compelling anecdotal evidence. Anders Breivik, James Holmes, and Adam Lanza, three of the most recent and infamous mass murderers, all regularly played violent video games. Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway, even admitted using the first-person shooter Call of Duty as a "training simulation." But the scientific evidence on video games and their link to real-world violence is far more muddled. Many studies have found that violent video games increase anti-social behaviors, while many more haven't found any detrimental effects whatsoever. ..more .. http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2013/07/06/violent_video_games_dont_make_you_mean_106583.html
Your cultural decline argument is hogwash. Are you really suggesting the world was a less violent place 2000 years ago? Your culture decline blame claim is a cop-out.
Gun culture kills people. Your attitude toward that gun culture contributes to the loss of innocent lives in your country. Your attitude toward the gun culture of the U.S.A. makes it more dangerous for all law enforcement officers in the USA.
conix, you play dummy to the NRA playbook. That's the fact.
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Unlike other groups, white men are not used to being singled out. So we expect that many of them will protest it is unfair if we talk about them. But our nation must correctly define their contribution to our problem of gun violence if it is to be solved. When white men try to divert attention from gun control by talking about mental health issues, many people buy into the idea that the United States has a national mental health problem, or flawed systems with which to address those problems, and they think that is what produces mass shootings. But women and girls with mental health issues are not picking up semiautomatic weapons and shooting schoolchildren. Immigrants with mental health issues are not committing mass shootings in malls and movie theaters. Latinos with mental health issues are not continually killing groups of strangers. Each of us is programmed from childhood to believe that the top group of our hierarchies — and in the U.S. culture, that’s white men — represents everyone, so it can feel awkward, even ridiculous, when we try to call attention to those people as a distinct group and hold them accountable. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-03-29/opinions/38124057_1_white-men-mental-health-issues-mass-shootings http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=86371076 .. also linked in bottom here .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=86523848
conix -- then let's see, for just one/the most recent example, the other night's fuckwit kill 5 and wound another 7 armed police officers (as well as a civilian or two) without his guns, in particular his SKS semi-automatic long gun ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKS ) with high-capacity magazines (he also had a handgun, not clear to what extent/effect he used it) -- you brainlocked dumbass
Researchers found that among the eight states with the least gun ownership, there's a 13.5% average rate of police fatalities over those 14 years. However, there's a 52% average rate of police fatalities in the 23 states with the highest gun ownership.
Here's what that means, according to The Washington Post [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/08/more-police-officers-die-on-the-job-in-states-with-more-guns/ ]: "Line-of-duty homicide rates among police officers were more than three times higher in states with high gun ownership compared with the low gun-ownership states. Between 1996 and 2010, in other words, there were 0.31 officer fatalities for every 10,000 employed officers in low gun-ownership states. But there were 0.95 fatalities per 10,000 officers in the high gun-ownership states." That's a clear, statistical correlation between civilian gun ownership and police-officer fatalities.
The study found that police officers "working in states with higher levels of gun ownership faced a greater likelihood of being shot and killed on the job compared with their peers in states with lower gun ownership."
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