If so that means this is the same dirty little trick the skid marks on Journalism's shorts ("reporters") used when describing the 1960s and 1970s "anti-war" demonstrators' "red, blue, and yellow protest banners." Those were Viet Cong flags.
Ewww - can they blame the whole thing on a ‘video’? It almost worked before...
And I agree. Guns have been with us in the U.S. for centuries. Violent video games, 20-25 years, tops. From Klebold to Lanza, this is a common thread.
THrow in Gansta Rap and much of hip hop and you have a huge piece of the picture.
The both watched NBC News, I bet.
The 9-11 hijackers repeatedly “flew” the mission using Flight Simulator.
I forgot his name, but there is/was also somebody else, a psychologist or sociologist. who blamed video games, claimed that the games desensitize people to violence and that players eventually become bored, want to see “real blood.”
Yea!He was also educated watching the trash coming out of Holllywood.Its the same damn thing.
How much training does it take to kill a classroom full of tots?
So, if I go into a mall and start throwing ice cubes at everyone, will they blame it on World of Warcraft because I played a Frost Mage?
I guess the zero responsibility “culture” has to blame something since no one is responsible for their own choices and actions anymore.
It’s the culture, we agree. But then, once you start listing the elements of the culture that contribute to the moral decay of the citizenry, such as video games, melodic (!) death metal, Hollywood, etc, consumers, fans and users of these genres immediately rise up with protests and sophomoric arguments defending the violent trash.
Never mind the fact that the schools are teaching subjective reality and the parents don’t know what the kids are watching or playing.
Hollywood is only one tiny piece of the puzzle and removing it won’t make much difference. Andrew Kehoe blew up the school in Bath Michigan in 1927 killing more than any other mass killer in American history and I don’t even think wireless radio was in common usage then. He was hardly the first.
Here is a listing of just “rampage killers” that doesn’t from the Americas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers:_Americas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers#School_massacres
as i posted else where
let’s not confuse first-person-shooter video games with computer strategy (from squad level through corps level)wargames. but the clips instead of magazines crowd won’t understand the distinction anyway.
But never learned how to clear a jam.
Good.
If so that means this is the same dirty little trick the skid marks on Journalism's shorts ("reporters") used when describing the 1960s and 1970s "anti-war" demonstrators' "red, blue, and yellow protest banners." Those were Viet Cong flags.
Jack Thompson?
Is this the jack thompson from FR a long time ago,
back in the old days??? Nutcase, wacked out lawyer?
This “shooter” was stopped by a CCW permit holder who drew down on him, and decided not to fire for fear of hitting bystander in line of sight. CCW person was seen by the “shooter” before they decided to shoot themselves dead.
This HAS NOT been in media reports about this.
Or not. Jack Thompson doesn't know his exit orifice from a taco.
Whenever I see these horsesh*t conclusions being drawn, I remember something Rush says when they say this food or that food is bad for you: “Every single person who eats carrots is going to die.”
OK. But what made him (and dozens of others worldwide before video games) do it?
Obtained from an Internet source..
At least fourteen recent school shootings were committed by those taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs
1. Huntsville, Alabama – February 5, 2012: [shooter was] taking the antidepressant Zoloft and “other drugs for the conditions.”
2. Kauhajoki, Finland – September 23, 2008: [shooter] was taking an SSRI and a benzodiazapine.
3. Dekalb, Illinois – February 14, 2008: [shooter] had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien.
4. Jokela, Finland – November 7, 2007: [shooter] had been taking antidepressants
5. Cleveland, Ohio – October 10, 2007: [shooter] had been placed on the antidepressant Trazodone.
6. Red Lake, Minnesota – March 2005: [shooter was] on Prozac
7. Greenbush, New York – February 2004: [shooter] had been taking “medication for depression”.
8. Wahluke, Washington – April 10, 2001: [no shooting, used rifle to take hostages at school] had been taking the antidepressant Effexor.
9. El Cajon, California – March 22, 2001: [the shooter was] on the antidepressants Celexa and Effexor
10. Williamsport, Pennsylvania – March 7, 2001: [the shooter] was taking the antidepressant Prozac
11. Conyers, Georgia – May 20, 1999: [the shooter] was being treated with the stimulant Ritalin
12. Columbine, Colorado – April 20, 1999: [the shooters'] medical records remain sealed.
13. Notus, Idaho – April 16, 1999: [the shooter] was taking a prescribed SSRI antidepressant and Ritalin.
14. Springfield, Oregon – May 21, 1998: [the shooter] had been taking the antidepressant Prozac.
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