Posted on 10/04/2017 8:54:35 AM PDT by grundle
The YouTube video below is an episode of the science TV program Through the Wormhole. This episode is called “Is Gun Crime a Virus?” It’s from season 8, and originally aired just a few months ago. Morgan Freeman is both the narrator and the executive producer.
I listened to (but did not watch, as it’s rotated 90 degrees, and is also cropped) the entire video.
Here are three interesting studies from the video that I’d like to mention:
1) In a driving simulator, people drove more aggressively when a gun was placed on the passenger seat, as compared to when a control object (a tennis racket) was placed on the passenger seat. (skip to 26:46)
2) In real world driving, a driver in a pickup truck deliberately stopped at a stop sign for 12 seconds. Sometimes the truck had a rifle on a gun rack, and sometimes it did not. When there was a rifle, the drivers behind the truck behaved more aggressively compared to the control group where there was no rifle. (skip to 28:39)
3) Among minors in prison for violent felony, some were given “decompression therapy,” and some were not. After they got out of prison, those who did not receive the therapy killed 16 people, while those who did receive the therapy killed no one. (skip to 37:15)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL5mP420_z4
I think it makes perfect sense. Everyone knows that scuba diving minors with trucks full of guns are the worst drivers.
Most people I know who carry guns are MORE careful to de-escalate possible road rage incidents, because we do not want to be seen as the aggressor. Also, we don't want to go around shooting people. I hope I NEVER have to shoot anyone, but I still carry every day. My family depends on it, and me.
Makes sense. People in America are conditioned from a young age to hate people who have guns and to hate rednecks in general. So naturally they would behave aggressively toward the truck with the rifle in the rack.
Breaking.....
Here’s a clip from the Los Angeles portion of that testing!
Cheers
KYPD
The guy’s a liberal to the extreme - if he told me the sky was blue I would doubt it. Wake up...progressives are scammers.
In each “test” scenario, did the use the same people as test subjects? If not, it’s not a very good test because we all know different people behave differently anyway, having all different levels of anxiety, confidence, experience, common sense, etc.
***People in America are conditioned from a young age to hate people who have guns***
Sad but true. I remember when many pickup truck drivers had gun racks and often a gun in the window. Most carried fishing poles.
Once, back in 1970, I mentioned to my work companion, a young man I went to high school with, who later went full Hippie, that I had put a gun rack in my window.
He told me he did not like people with gun racks in their trucks as his HEROs in the movie EASY RIDER had been killed by people with gun racks in their trucks.
I realized then HE was nuts.
The needle in that haystack of a report was the decompression therapy. While they found differences in the brain between psychopaths and non-psychopaths, they didn’t examine where habits are stored. I recommend the book The Power of Habit to everyone. Especially those that are dealing with addiction in their lives or their families. Or to anyone who wants a better understanding of what makes people tick.
Isn’t there a war with Russia he needs to be fighting?
Those are excellent points. You carry a gun by choice, and that could be what makes you ore calm than the people in the experiment.
That’s a great point. Perhaps the results would be different if the experiments were conducted in Israel or Switzerland.
That’s great! I love Steve Martin, but I’ve never seen LA Story. Maybe I’ll watch it some day.
I don’t think they used the same people. But if the sample size was big enough, it shouldn’t matter.
Ask Tiger Woods about his vehicle, golf clubs and aggression.
BTW - my Head Prestige Pro is fully loaded, so don't even think about messing with me m'kay?
I’ll check it out - thanks for the tip...
gotta love “science” and statistical analysis...too many variables.
When I was younger, my thought when I saw a gun rack in the back of a pickup truck window was, nice guns. It did NOT affect my driving performance. But I was brought up in rural Indiana and taught to know how guns were to be used and NOT used. I wonder what the background of the people tested for this tv show was?
Actually, I would not behave aggressively. One of my rules - anyone who possesses a firearm is indistinguishable from God.
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