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Christina: while I understand that the subliminal effect does work in a movie theater, for technical reasons I very much doubt that you would get any result trying the same thing with tv. The phosphors in the screen have much too long a "decay time". Have you ever seen a shot of a white ball moving across a very dark field? it has a strong "tail" due to that decay time. The screen just won't change fast enough for single frame flashes. Probably the only reason we aren't being controlled totally! I wouldn't put anything past Herr Klinton & co.! Keep your powder dry!
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There was talk of the Patrick Purdy Stockton schoolyard shootings in 1989 that began the whole "assault weapons" controversy as being "induced" by anti-gunners, (they allegedly gave him the weapon and basically pointed him in the schools direction) but even if that were true, (forensic evidence suggests Purdy was taken out by a marksman instead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound) the majority of these tragedies, I believe, suggest more of a fascination by people (kids) who see a way of gaining attention or seeking help by committing mass murder. We have our politicians and our media to thank for this awful phenomenon.

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The subliminal effect did not work in the movies. This has been studies into the dirt.

There is no mind control technology. We don't have the basic knowledge of the processes in the mind to come close to implementing it. Nor is there a technology that can influence the mind on a microlevel from a distance. Nor do drugs exist that can control you.

I'll put my credentials next to anyone's on this.

Of course, none of you who want to believe in that will bother to go to research library and actually study the issues in referred journals. You will prefer to stew in conspiracy theores.

As I said before - the reasons for antigun sentiment, mass rampages and the like are quite mundane psychology, sociology and politics.

Such ramblings are our curse and we lose points in the debate.

However, all causes have extremes driven more by the personalty structures of the proponents than logic and/or fact.

Look at the animal rights folks. They have some decent points about the way some critters are treated. Then they get nuts like Peta and the more extreme lab attackers.

I know an African-American gentlement who is pretty decent but is convinced that AIDS is a genocidial plot by the CIA to kill blacks.

There are alien abduction believers.

The RKBA has a similar fringe.

My post is to those with some critical faculties. There is not anything to these speculations. If you fall for them and then spout them, you are just as much contributing to the loss of gun rights as an anti.

Sigh!

The reason that this issue is incredibly important is that we are a group that is arguing for the position of instruments of lethal force.

Peta extremists want to treat pigs nice and make everyone eat salad.

We want to have guns that kill. We have an extremely higher burdern to prove our sanity that someone who throws a tofu pie.

So if you are on the border of such debates and undecided, there are many books on the history of paranoid conspiracies and pseudo-scientific cults. Read them.

Just like the racist fringe is an embarrasment, conspiracy threads with no base in reality are equally as damaging.
 
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