If they can blame guns for killing people then I can blame my pencil for misspelled words.

Study links guns and hormones in men

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U.S. psychologists say they've found that handling a gun creates a hormonal reaction in men that can prime them for aggression.

Psychologists at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., enrolled 30 male students in what was presented as a taste study, The New York Times reported. The researchers took saliva samples from the students and measured testosterone levels.

The students were seated, one at a time, at a table in a bare room. On the table were pieces of paper and either the board game Mouse Trap or a large handgun. Their instructions: Take apart the game or the gun and write directions for assembly and disassembly.

http://www.physorg.com/news66399880.html

The students were seated, one at a time, at a table in a bare room. On the table were pieces of paper and either the board game Mouse Trap or a large handgun. Their instructions: Take apart the game or the gun and write directions for assembly and disassembly.


If they were your average students, they'd probably not know how to take apart either. Even if they did, knowing how to do something and being able to tell/write down how to do it is two different things.

I'd be showing a bit of aggression as well if I had to write out instructions. I dont think it's aggression so much as a feeling of power. Sure they'd feel more powerful armed with a weapon, as opposed to an annoying as hell childrens game. "Stand back or I'll throw a game piece at you!" :rolleyes:

More junk pseudo-science , all in the name of political correctness .

Too bad I missed out on this one.

Guns and hot sauce are probably my two favorite things!

The students were then asked to taste a cup of water with a drop of hot sauce in it and prepare a similar drink for the next person in the experiment, adding as much hot sauce as they liked.

The psychologists said those handling the gun put in about three times as much hot sauce as the others.

edit: I wonder what the results would show if they used subjects who had never seen firearms?