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EX500rider

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5. Well that puts you in the camp with your favorite people..the NRA

Tue Apr 10, 2018, 04:39 PM

Apr 2018

"Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association, has castigated the entertainment media for its purported role in contributing to mass shootings. After the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, LaPierre blasted the video game business as a "corrupting shadow industry that sells and sows violence against its own people."

While actual experts:

"It's hard to attribute video games to any kind of violence in society," said Christopher Ferguson, a psychology professor at Stetson University in Florida. "We're not able to find any evidence to support this idea."

Ferguson is joined in that view by Whitney DeCamp, a professor of sociology at Western Michigan University, who says the relationship between video games and violent behavior is insignificant and trivial."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/here-s-what-we-know-about-links-between-video-games-n852776

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Selling all 200 of my PC games...1996 to 2013 games : ( [View all] EX500rider Apr 2018 OP

My favs were: EX500rider Apr 2018 #1

Some of those video games are listed in studies on gun violence. Just saying. Hoyt Apr 2018 #2

And some "studies" on video games and gun violence are BS. EX500rider Apr 2018 #3

Maybe, maybe not. Hoyt Apr 2018 #4

Well that puts you in the camp with your favorite people..the NRA EX500rider Apr 2018 #5

LaPierre knows gunners. Hoyt Apr 2018 #6

NRA only says that because they don't want to address the real problem, guns JonLP24 Jul 2018 #8

I can remember when comic books and later television was the violence culprits. shraby Apr 2018 #7