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Orrcountry, This is dumb of me to do this but studies have been done on violent movies connection with real world violence since the 50's. Numerous studies here and in other countries have studied violent video games and real world violence and have not found a correlation, let alone a causation between the two. Countries that view the same violent video games such as the Netherlands, Japan, Singapore has low violent crime rates. In 2011, the Supreme Court struck down a California law, 7 to 2, restricting sale & rental of violent video games to minors citing the existing research. There are very good reasons for parents to monitor media their children are exposed to but Wayne LaPierre and the NRA using violent movies and video games as scapegoats to keep raking in the dough isn't one of them.

The US has the highest personal gun ownership rate in the world. With just over 30,000 gun deaths a year costing us billions of dollar, the "more guns make us safer" contention doesn't seem to be working out very well.

Private sellers being able to "size up a customer very well" may be your experience but using intuition to size up a stranger as ok to sell to without a background check sounds like a crapshoot to me.

From: Do you favor universal background checks for gun purchases in Minnesota?

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