Study: Kids who watch movies with guns likely to use guns

guns.com ^ | Sep. 27, 2017 | Andrew Shepperson

[TigersEye]

After the movie clips, researchers recorded children playing for 20 minutes in a room with a cabinet full of toys, including a drawer that contained a disabled .38-caliber handgun equipped with a sensor to count trigger pulls.

Stupid Study Draws Wrong Conclusions!

What they proved is that if adults treat guns like toys children will get the idea that guns are toys.

[TomGuy]

When they grow up and are at college ...

One Year Of Campus Carry On Texas Campuses, And How Many Problems?

09/27/2017 8:18:47 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 8 replies Bearing Arms ^ | 26 Sep, 2017 | Tom Knighton Anti-gun leftists have screamed and moaned about the idea of law-abiding concealed carry license holders being able to take their lawfully owned firearms onto college campuses. They routinely act like anyone with a gun is going to snap at any moment. Of course, this isn’t new. After every new repeal of some anti-gun regulation, we hear the old “the streets will run red with blood” arguments, and yet they never seem to pan out that way, do they? But campus carry is different, they say.

[TigerHawk]

Another fraudulent “study”. No mention was made about the sex of the children that picked up the guns...I’d bet that almost all, if not all, were boys (remember how Odysseus found out Achilles disguised as a girl hiding in a harem by noting that only one girl was attracted to the table displaying weapons).

The ONLY way to protect children from misusing firearms is by educating them about what firearms are and how to safely handle them. Had all of my progeny, when they got to be about 10 years old, or so, prep, hold firmly, brace, and pull the trigger on a 12 Ga. shotgun. NONE OF THEM EVER THOUGHT THAT IT WAS SOME SORT OF TOY AFTER THAT. NOTHING LIKE TV, OR THE MOVIES!
All have trained in the use of firearms, all are proficient, all are armed, and not one of them has shot anyone, nor (Thank G-D) ever experienced the need to.
Another poppycock study that is only good for spreading around the rose garden.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

This nonsense began with the murder of Bobby Kennedy in 1968. Tv shows dumbed down, violent scenes were butchered from movies on TV, toy guns took a hit.

Only the theater movies got a “Pass” with their joke of a ratings system. They then added more blood, guns and sex to obtain the then (1969) “R” rating.

As for smoking, drinking, and other things in Movies...It is called “Product Placement” advertising paid for by the cigarette and liquor makers.

[mountainlion]

I had NRA hunter safety in gym class two years in a row in high school. You remember the NRA, the group organized and thought black people to to use guns in self defense and taught gun safety and such. Fewer people were killed by this program and all the westerns combined than on a weekend in Chicago.

[MUDDOG]

Guns are the least of it.

Watching “Will and Grace” can make you gay.

[SJackson]

You remember the NRA, the group organized and thought black people to to use guns in self defense and taught gun safety and such

Are those the same guys that taught military marksman in WWI and WWII? Most of the left would tell us that's a terrible thing.

[Blood of Tyrants]

So Hollywood actors who make action movies yet are anti gun are causing children to play with guns.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Kids who listen to gangsta rap are more likely to disrespect women, do drugs, commit felonies, and kill other people.

[dirtboy]

Oh, yeah. I shot at my friends as a fifth grader a gazillion times. With my empty bb gun, back along the bayou in Houston. Made me into the convicted killer I am today.

Oops, I haven't shot anyone, or gotten into fights as an adult. What happened?

Conservative American values happened.

[hinckley buzzard]

Children imitate. This is basic psych 101 stuff, well known and long observed in a variety of contexts. The results really are very minimal-- the numbers of kids who picked up guns did not differ between groups.. A negative result. I can about guarantee that the secondary measures, how many trigger pulls e.g., are fall back measures and were not specifically predicted. IOW, they jumped on any little difference that they could find and acted as if it was a predicted finding. Dishonest way to get published.

[MUDDOG]

With my empty bb gun

You save the last bb for yourself.

[SERKIT]

I grew up with the Looney Tunes/Warner Brothers cartoons so as an adult, I know - for certain - that if someone is pointing a shotgun at me, all I need to do is put my finger in the barrell, so when he pulls the trigger, it will blow up, destroying his gun, and gets black soot all over his face. I learned well.

[dirtboy]

You save the last bb for yourself.

You must have known my friends.

[Kickass Conservative]

I started shooting Guns when I was eight years old.

My Mother wouldn’t let me go with my Older Brother to see the Movie “The Blob” starring Steve McQueen when I was five, so I turned to Guns, or something.

[ealgeone]

Ditto.

[Kickass Conservative]

So much for “A Christmas Story” Marathon on TNT this December.

[Trillian]

I used to wonder why so many anti-gun actors who were against people owning guns, always stared in movies loaded with all that crazy side ways shootin’ gun violence.

[PROCON]

So much for “A Christmas Story” Marathon on TNT this December.

LOL!

[RetiredTexasVet]

Can you imagine the billions these frauds have obtained from the government to finance totally worthless studies.