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Gun Control Reform Activism

Locrian

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3. maybe....

Reply to Kaleva (Original post)

Tue Oct 6, 2015, 06:00 AM

Oct 2015

Maybe it's because they have been exposed to about 100,000 movies and tv shows where the good guy (with a gun of course) stops the bad guy. Especially the ones where the good guy or his wife, child etc gets killled - but if they **just** would have had a gun.....

I'm not saying that it **causes** the violence, as there is debate to whether watching violence / video games / tv / movies causes people to act out or whether it gives them an outlet. And I'm not refuting the availability of guns as a factor.

But the omnipresent 24/7 gun ***advertising*** in the form of just about every movie, tv show, video game has to be the best method in the world for the would-be "heros" and for keeping people afraid of their own shadows.

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Many, IMHO, talk themselves into a need for a gun for protection [View all] Kaleva Oct 2015 OP

Said much the same comment earlier this am on fb. Bohunk68 Oct 2015 #1

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maybe.... Locrian Oct 2015 #3