# Games are to blame for mass shooters, not social welfare or gun regulation.

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 27, 2018, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-are-to-blame-for-mass-shooters-not-social-welfare-or-gun-regulation/820335 "2018-08-27T04:18:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-are-to-blame-for-mass-shooters-not-social-welfare-or-gun-regulation/820335/41 "2018-11-06T07:23:26Z")

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Well it is too soon to notice the trend of white supremacists committing mass shootings – it’s just lots of isolated cases.

And racist ideology and conspiracy theories don’t kill people – people who profess to believe racist ideology and conspiracy theories, citing that as their motivation, kill people.  
Oh, and “both sides”.

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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-are-to-blame-for-mass-shooters-not-social-welfare-or-gun-regulation/820335/42 "2018-11-06T07:25:25Z")

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Aluminum baseball bats. Makes the most unpleasant noise short of a siren. The sound of an organic chunk of sculpted pine is satisfying and complete, like a tense minor theme resolving into an appropriate major chord. The moronic clunk of the aluminum bat is a noise a musical terrorist would use to disrupt a symphony.

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**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-are-to-blame-for-mass-shooters-not-social-welfare-or-gun-regulation/820335/43 "2018-11-06T13:43:01Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
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> Aluminum baseball bats. Makes the most unpleasant noise short of a siren. The sound of an organic chunk of sculpted pine is satisfying and complete, like a tense minor theme resolving into an appropriate major chord. The moronic clunk of the aluminum bat is a noise a musical terrorist would use to disrupt a symphony.

Nice post, although “pine” is accurate only as vernacular. Maple, ash, hickory. Wikipedia adds…bamboo, the acoustic properties of which I am not familiar.

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