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The Worst Right Wing Tweet So Far About the Isla Vista Murders

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)5/26/2014 9:26:32 am PDT

re: #289 Killgore Trout

Watch the Brooker clip. Forensic psychologists think the media coverage contributes to the problem and have been warning about it for quite some time.

Some do. Some don’t. We don’t actually have any good data on whether or not people get more inspired by media coverage.

For one thing, if that were true we’d expect an increase in mass killings with the spread of mass media, but we don’t have that.

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We actually have a decline in mass shootings since the 1980s.

(Data from Grant Duwe, excludes gang and drug stuff)