PC Magazine - 09.2019

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No, Video Games Are Not

A Factor in Mass

Shootings

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Will Greenwald has

been covering

consumer technology

for a decade and has

served on the editorial

staffs of CNET.com,

Sound & Vision, and

Maximum PC.