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Elessar Zappa

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17. Even before graphic video games,

Reply to Kaleva (Reply #15)

Tue Mar 28, 2023, 11:50 AM

Mar 2023

the murder rate was high. It went way up in the 70s and continued to climb until the mid to late 90s. It’s climbed some since the pandemic but it’s still not near the rate it was 30 years ago.

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Most Americans are totally ignorant of what a human body subjected to gunfire looks like. [View all] RockRaven Mar 2023 OP

Not me, MarineCombatEngineer Mar 2023 #1

+1 Irish_Dem Mar 2023 #2

For sure. MarineCombatEngineer Mar 2023 #4

Exactly. Being reality based when in a life and death situation is a real asset. Irish_Dem Mar 2023 #5

For sure, the press should see some photos so they LakeVermilion Mar 2023 #3

I absolutely think it would make some difference, esp. with children Hugh_Lebowski Mar 2023 #6

They never see it Walleye Mar 2023 #7

I never saw action back in my draftee days, but I saw lots of guys... TreasonousBastard Mar 2023 #8

No, they think that violence is funny. That it's a joke. Initech Mar 2023 #9

The gunhumping deathcultists would probably get off on those images. niyad Mar 2023 #10

Yup. Guns 'n' Ammo porn for them. Artcatt Mar 2023 #11

Anti-choice protesters display graphic fetal pictures outside women's health care clinics, Timeflyer Mar 2023 #12

Old ER and ICU nurse MuseRider Mar 2023 #13

It was worse in the 80s. Elessar Zappa Mar 2023 #16

New York is very dense GenXer47 Mar 2023 #18

we need to do the same thing the pro lifers do moonshinegnomie Mar 2023 #14

One can see it replicated very realistically in video games Kaleva Mar 2023 #15

Even before graphic video games, Elessar Zappa Mar 2023 #17