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Study: Kids who watch movies with guns likely to use guns
guns.com ^ | Sep. 27, 2017 | Andrew Shepperson

Posted on 09/27/2017 3:56:39 PM PDT by PROCON


Kids who watch movies that depict people using guns are more likely play with firearms for longer periods of time and to pull the trigger, a new study suggests.

For the study, published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Ohio State University researchers had children ages 8-12 watch 20-minute clips from movies containing guns and other children watch movies in which no guns were used. 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.

While researchers did not see a noticeable difference in the number of kids who picked up and played with the gun between the two groups, they did notice a difference in how the kids played with the gun once it was handled. The children who watched the movie with characters firing guns played with the real firearm for longer periods of time and also pulled the trigger more often than children who had not seen a gun in their movie clip.

Researcher Brad Bushman told Reuters that he was not sure why the movies did not influence the number of kids who handled the gun but reiterated that the movies still seemed to influence behavior once the children started to handle it.

“But those who did handle the gun held it longer and pulled the trigger more times if they saw a movie with guns than if they saw a movie without guns,” Bushman said.

“Past research has shown that kids who see movie characters smoke are more likely to smoke themselves, and kids who see movie characters drink alcohol are more likely to drink alcohol themselves,” Bushman added. “Movies with alcohol have a warning, and movies with cigarettes also have a warning, and I think movies with guns should have a warning too.”

Out of 104 children, who were split off into pairs for the experiment, around 83 percent of them found the handgun in the cabinet drawer, and one or both children in 22 of the pairs handled the gun. Only 14 pairs of children alerted a research assistant when they found the firearm.

Researchers did note their experiment had its limitations, including a small sample size and the fact that only one firearm was available in the playroom.

While Dr. Dimitri A. Christakis argued in a companion editorial that condemning media violence and implementing stricter gun control laws would likely have little to no effect on children’s exposure to gun violence, he did say the study clearly showed how important proper gun storage can be in preventing unintentional shootings.

“Prior studies have shown that safe storage of guns is associated with a 75% reduction in the risk of firearm suicide and unintentional shootings among youths who are younger than 20 years,” Christakis said. “Intervention programs to increase the safe storage of firearms are effective, even in rural areas where hunting and using firearms is a regular part of the culture.”


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: banglist; children; guns; movies; warning
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To: PROCON
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.

21 posted on 09/27/2017 4:20:50 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: PROCON
When they grow up and are at college ...

22 posted on 09/27/2017 4:22:16 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: PROCON

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.


23 posted on 09/27/2017 4:30:45 PM PDT by TigerHawk
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To: PROCON

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.


24 posted on 09/27/2017 4:36:59 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: PROCON

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.


25 posted on 09/27/2017 4:42:06 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: PROCON

Guns are the least of it.

Watching “Will and Grace” can make you gay.


26 posted on 09/27/2017 4:44:38 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: mountainlion
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.

27 posted on 09/27/2017 4:47:32 PM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: PROCON

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


28 posted on 09/27/2017 4:57:41 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: captain_dave

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


29 posted on 09/27/2017 5:00:54 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: PROCON
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.

30 posted on 09/27/2017 5:18:00 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: PROCON
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.
31 posted on 09/27/2017 5:25:33 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: dirtboy
With my empty bb gun

You save the last bb for yourself.

32 posted on 09/27/2017 5:27:06 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: PROCON

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.


33 posted on 09/27/2017 5:43:30 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: MUDDOG
You save the last bb for yourself.

You must have known my friends.

34 posted on 09/27/2017 5:44:52 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: PROCON

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.


35 posted on 09/27/2017 5:47:45 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: PROCON

Ditto.


36 posted on 09/27/2017 5:47:58 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: PROCON

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


37 posted on 09/27/2017 5:49:10 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: PROCON

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.


38 posted on 09/27/2017 5:58:29 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Kickass Conservative
So much for “A Christmas Story” Marathon on TNT this December.

LOL!


39 posted on 09/27/2017 6:09:45 PM PDT by PROCON (#MAGA)
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To: PROCON

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


40 posted on 09/27/2017 6:15:16 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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