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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
It has very little to do with video games, movies, TV shows or there would be hundreds of thousands of these kind of shootings involving any kind of available weapon.
The Bible has all kinds of violence in it. As do the works of Shakespeare, operas, Homer's The Iliad, etc.
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Using the reasoning above...
exposure to violence does not increase violence or there would be hundreds of thousands of these kinds of shootings.
Same/similar logic gun availability does not increase mass shootings because with the millions upon millions of guns available there would hundreds of thousands of these kinds of shootings.
There is the reality of what is called condition reflex:
"conditioned reflex. An automatic response to a stimulus which differs from that initially causing the response but which has become associated with it by repetition. The sight of food causes a dog to salivate. If a bell is rung every time the food appears, the bell alone will, in time, cause salivation."
Applied to violence exposure VS food or ringing the bell!