Gun Control & RKBA

Straw Man

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15. Here's what I told you ...

Reply to flamin lib (Reply #11)

Sat May 7, 2016, 01:25 PM

May 2016

Most people can discern fantasy. Apparently not all tho . . .

... the last time you advanced that particular canard:

"There is now consensus that exposure to media violence is linked to actual violent behavior — a link found by many scholars to be on par with the correlation of exposure to secondhand smoke and the risk of lung cancer. In a meta-analysis of 217 studies published between 1957 and 1990, the psychologists George Comstock and Haejung Paik found that the short-term effect of exposure to media violence on actual physical violence against a person was moderate to large in strength."

--http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/opinion/sunday/does-media-violence-lead-to-the-real-thing.html

You ignored me then. Would you care to address it now?

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Most people can discern fantasy. Apparently not all tho . . .nt flamin lib May 2016 #11

Here's what I told you ... Straw Man May 2016 #15

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Not an insult, a simple characterization. As you never add anything of substance to a conversation flamin lib May 2016 #35

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Moderate organization Duckhunter935 May 2016 #3

Brought to you by Reagan Republicans. Eleanors38 May 2016 #24

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