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21 million bucks. 21 million. That’s how much the NRA spent on grants to youth groups like the Boy Scouts last year for shooting programs. I really want to type it a third time. 21 million. Dollars!
Is there any possible universe where encouraging children to shoot guns does not lead to children shooting guns? I’m kind of over it with the whole children shooting thing.
Reading the article, you’ll have your “No no no, it cannot be this is tooooooooooo much!” moment when this comes up:
“The shooting sports foundation, the tax-exempt trade association for the gun industry, is a driving force behind many of the newest youth initiatives. Its national headquarters is in Newtown, just a few miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School, where Adam Lanza, 20, used his mother’s Bushmaster AR-15 to kill 20.
Psychological reactance occurs in response to threats to perceived behavioral freedoms.[1][2] An example of such behavior can be observed when an individual engages in a prohibited activity in order to deliberately taunt the authority who prohibits it, regardless of the utility or disutility that the activity confers.
Originally posted by danneu89
reply to post by Kashai
Where's the data suggesting that young people predisposed to gun safety are more likely to murder?
Originally posted by Rockpuck
reply to post by Kashai
I learned to shoot in the Boy Scouts. Never had an urge to go on a shooting rampage. I'm really.. really.. really tired of constantly hearing about how guns, just holding a gun, will make someone want to shoot someone. No, it doesn't work that way.
Originally posted by solomons path
reply to post by Kashai
In relation to your thoughts on genetic markers, for possible violence . . . if you are testing for that you will probably be running screens for all issues. If that's the case, it sounds like we are getting into Eugenics and I don't see the purpose in even opening that possiblility. For instance, how do we know the gene for violence or anything label detrimental won't be advantagous in coming generations (in case of environment or societal change) . . . with out the ability to adapt that these genes provide for some and allow us as a species to go on, we simply die out.
Don't mess with nature kid!