Mike McIntire
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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There was one board member who mentioned that they had successfully done this at a school district in Florida where they went through the biology curriculum in school.
to introduce the idea, first of all, of wildlife biology, which would lead then to the idea of the need to conserve wildlife, wildlife management.
And then that would lead to the idea of hunting being a tool for wildlife management, which eventually would come to the idea of firearms being a necessary component of hunting.
And this is literally spelled out.
This is like the step-by-step process they wanted to take in order to get guns into the hands of kids.
I found that to be something I was really kind of eye-opening.
Yeah, it's a very controversial area because there are people who are very worried about the impact of violent video games and movies in general, especially impressionable or troubled young men and boys.
And the industry, I think starting in the early 2000s, really kind of found this to be a useful way to market their products.
And today there's a whole subculture of consultants and influencers online that exist to kind of help the industry market their guns and accessories in this way, getting them embedded in video games.
Look, I mean, there's not a lot of research that directly shows that
You know, a kid playing a violent video game is more prone than anyone else to commit violence.
I mean, my own son, who's an adult now, liked shoot-em-up games when he was young, and nothing bad ever happened there.
Having said that, there are some examples.
of mass shooters who turned out to be fully absorbed in these things.
And one of the most troubling ones was Adam Lanza, who was the person who killed 26 children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
He was fully enthralled with Call of Duty and other video games.
He would play them in the basement constantly.
When he committed the shooting, it was afterwards it was discovered that he had used
a staggered pairing of high-capacity magazines using duct tape to be able to more quickly empty his gun and put a new magazine in.
And this staggered pairing using tape was something that one of the characters in one of these video games had done.
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