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LOL!!!  Are you really gonna criticize me for referencing YOUR source? Whadda maroon. |
I wasn't criticizing you for referencing my source, I just don't agree with the label "game industry expert" for someone that has pledged an end to first amendment rights in nearly all media, the latest being video games.
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Yep, and the American Petroluem Institution, the American Enterprise Institution and the Tobacco Institute all found PhD to support their extreme minority versions of science.
...or enjoy your SUV... or your cigarettes ...or your immaculately watered lawn.
And once again your "Gaming Industry columnist" dismisses existing research by declaring it "a tangle" and "elusive". Yet his last sentence seems to wistfully suggest that he knows where the research is heading, and it's not his way. |
They're just doing the same thing you're doing, picking the studies they agree with and trying to discredit the ones they don't. It happens
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You and me both. Ironic, isn't it, that I'm a liberal who can't stand Michael Moore. He's the Rush Limbaugh of the left, who trades in half truthes, innuendo, rumors, out of context comments and outright bullsh!t.
And as far as Canada goes, I suspect their thin population of 33 million, compared to our 300 million, in the world's second largest nation by area, has something to do with it. And yet they still manage to rank number 10 in Gun Deaths in the 36 Richest Nations, behind good 'ol Switzerland (no. 8) and well behind us. |
And that's exactly my point, it's not as clear cut and simple as our "gun culture". Our society is far to complex to pigeonhole like that. I don't think that Canada's geography has much to do with their lower crime rate, the population density is similar if you consider that the majority of the country is sparsely inhabited, most of the population lives within 2 hours of the US border, while the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut is 41% of the land mass but only 0.3% of the population.