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Connecticut Groups Cancels Plan to Destroy Violent Games
An anonymous reader writes with an update to an earlier story about a group wanting to destroy your violent video games. "Southington, a town in Connecticut, has canceled its plans to collect and destroy violent games, stating that it has already succeeded in raising attention."
Perhaps the real reason: "Backed by the Southington Chamber of Commerce, SouthingtonSOS originally planned to offer citizens $25 gift certificates in exchange for their violent games, films, and CDs, which the group would collect for 'permanent disposal.'"
Maybe there's some hope for us after all.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
> SouthingtonSOS originally planned to offer citizens $25
> gift certificates in exchange for their violent games
which would have caused a spike in sales on cheap old games at GameStop the day before the event and accomplished nothing else.
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If you're training to use a gun in self-defense, what exactly do you think you should be shooting at?
I presume the police also 'glorify killing', since they shoot at human-shaped targets too?
Actually, it has prevented many. But usually they are dismissed. For example, off duty cop, or in the case of the "security guard" at the church. Who was merely a citizen who had a carry permit, and due to some concerns had volunteered at the church. (Essentially, what I used to do.)
No, there are many cases. But you'll almost never hear them in the news, cause they do not fit the agenda.
That, and the perpetrator is usually taken out before it can become a "massacre".
The NRA is a gun industry lobby posing as a gun owner lobby.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
on that same logic, Neither has there been any mass shootings using automatic weapons yet they talk about them non stop everytime a crazy person goes crazy.
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
Did they also explain to you that 61 of the last 62 mass shootings took place in "gun free zones" I know crazy that law abiding citizens would follow the laws that a crazy person would ignore.
so again, how will outlawing XX stop anything when it already is shown that gun free zones are criminal welcome zones?
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
That's an idiotic statistic in and of itself, without knowing why.
You are significantly more likely to harm/kill someone you know, full stop.
That's simply because, there's usually a trigger event, and that will usually involve people, and you deal more regularly, and have more time to build up animosity (to the tipping point) with people you know.
The only thing that statistic is useful logic for, is preventing anyone from knowing anyone else.
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Tanks are arms. A10 gunships are arms. Chemical and biological weapons are arms. Nuclear weapons are arms. No one seriously disputes the fact that we get to infringe on bearing arms, the question is only where to draw the line. Why do you insist that semi-automatic weapons must not be infringed but not tanks and nukes?