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Gun violence researchers have no shortage of questions that the CDC could now investigate. Garen Wintemute, who heads the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, wants to examine the value of California's efforts to recover firearms from people who bought them legally, but subsequently became ineligible to own a gun because they were convicted of a serious crime.
"We need to know whether that intervention – which is expensive and potentially risky – actually works," Wintemute says.
Another important question is over the degree of risk posed by people with a history of alcohol abuse owning guns. That could be studied if the CDC restored questions about gun ownership to its Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, the main survey used by the agency to investigate how risky behaviours may lead to disease, injury and death. These were removed after Congress pressured the CDC to abandon gun research.
Originally posted by kaylaluv
I believe the CDC study will include many other possible causative factors in gun violence, other than video games. That was just one example of what could be analyzed.
Gun violence researchers have no shortage of questions that the CDC could now investigate. Garen Wintemute, who heads the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, wants to examine the value of California's efforts to recover firearms from people who bought them legally, but subsequently became ineligible to own a gun because they were convicted of a serious crime.
"We need to know whether that intervention – which is expensive and potentially risky – actually works," Wintemute says.
Another important question is over the degree of risk posed by people with a history of alcohol abuse owning guns. That could be studied if the CDC restored questions about gun ownership to its Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, the main survey used by the agency to investigate how risky behaviours may lead to disease, injury and death. These were removed after Congress pressured the CDC to abandon gun research.
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Originally posted by butcherguy
reply to post by kaylaluv
How about people with a history of alcohol abuse owning CARS!
There are a 'Sandy Hook's' worth of people(27 on average) killed every day due to drunk driving.
Wouldn't it make sense to concentrate on something that kills more people than guns???
Originally posted by kaylaluv
Originally posted by butcherguy
reply to post by kaylaluv
How about people with a history of alcohol abuse owning CARS!
There are a 'Sandy Hook's' worth of people(27 on average) killed every day due to drunk driving.
Wouldn't it make sense to concentrate on something that kills more people than guns???
Deaths due to drunk driving have been greatly reduced since harsher penalties have been enforced, and the inception of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (raising awareness). Maybe we need a new group - Mothers against Mass Shooters (MAMS).
"I have a 12-year-old and he likes to play all those games and they're all rated 'mature'," said Karen Weathington, a mother of five children, including three boys.
Weathington notices a change in their behavior when they play certain games.
"When they play fight and wrestle, it's the mocking of slicing someone or with a gun. As a parent, it kind of concerned me, should I take the games away?" said Weathington.
Originally posted by butcherguy
You are 9,000 times more likely to die because of a doctor making a mistake when he treats you.... than to be killed by a gun.
Originally posted by butcherguy
reply to post by kaylaluv
How about people with a history of alcohol abuse owning CARS!
There are a 'Sandy Hook's' worth of people(27 on average) killed every day due to drunk driving.
Wouldn't it make sense to concentrate on something that kills more people than guns???
Originally posted by Indigo5
Originally posted by butcherguy
reply to post by kaylaluv
How about people with a history of alcohol abuse owning CARS!
There are a 'Sandy Hook's' worth of people(27 on average) killed every day due to drunk driving.
Wouldn't it make sense to concentrate on something that kills more people than guns???
10k per annum in Drunk Driving deaths
32k Firearm deaths per annum (11k Homicides...30k Suicides)
Wouldn't it make sense to give guns just a smidgen of the attention we give drunk driving?
Originally posted by jazzguy
hollywood is where the problem lies, with games you have to buy them..
but with television you get it pumped into you for free.
Originally posted by HomerinNC
So no, I dont believe these things cause people to snap, i think they would have done it anyhow, games meds or not
Originally posted by HomerinNC
lets see, I take the SAME SSRI's they said these killers took, play violent shoot em up games, I am a veteran (which they say is another reason), and havent hurt a fly...well maybe a fly or two, but you know what i mean...
So no, I dont believe these things cause people to snap, i think they would have done it anyhow, games meds or not
Originally posted by Ghost375
Originally posted by HomerinNC
So no, I dont believe these things cause people to snap, i think they would have done it anyhow, games meds or not
So what's wrong with doing a study on it?
In scientific fields, you don't just look at anecdotes, you do studies on issues.