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If you haven't had the Internet safety talk with your daughter yet, please turn the car around, drive to her school, pull her out of class, and have it RIGHT NOW.  According to a SHOCKING new study out of the University of Cincinnati, 30% of teenage girls in the U.S. say they've gotten together in person with a stranger they met online.  Now, we're not saying that EVERYONE you meet online is secretly a predator.  But they could be.  You really NEVER know the full truth about someone you meet online.  Jennie Noll led the study.  She says, quote, "Statistics show that the Internet is not as dangerous a place as, for example, walking through a bad neighborhood.  The vast majority of online meetings are benign.  "[But] even if just 1% end up in a dangerous encounter with a stranger offline, it's still a very big problem." The study found that the MOST effective ways to keep teenagers safe online was direct parental involvement and monitoring their online use. (FOX 11 - Los Angeles)

 

After saying there is a link between gun violence and video games, NRA releases shooting game app

When 20 children and 6 adults were gunned down in Sandy Hook Elementary School exactly one month ago today, the National Rifle Association rushed to blame video games, not guns, for inspiring such mass murders. But the gun lobby seemingly lost sight of its target in the past weeks, and over the weekend released a shooting app, called “NRA: Practice Range.”  The app bills itself as a “network of news, laws, facts, knowledge, safety tips, educational materials and online resource.” The NRA reports that it “[i]nstills safe and responsible ownership through fun challenges and realistic simulations.”  But it isn’t all about hunting. It allows players practice shooting at targets — coffin-shaped targets, with red bullseyes at head- and heart-level. [ThinkProgress.org]

 

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