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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by wavegeek on Friday December 29, 2017 @10:14PM (#16033641)
What a load of rubbish.

1. The compare gun deaths. This includes suicides and excludes all other murders. So it is a totally biased metric.

They even admit most gun deaths are suicides.

2. Ignore by far the most salient variables for predicting murders.

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by jessaustin on Saturday December 30, 2017 @10:01AM (#16035499)
This is typical "advocacy research". They don't care about science; they only care about getting funded. The general public knows this, so for the most part their research is completely ignored.

Don't even get me started on the "suicide is always terrible" bullshit. Many suicides are rational responses to untenable situations. I'm glad that my grandfather had a gun, when AEC and his physicians had both failed him completely.

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