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This is a several year old article Drudge linked to, about what I consider the real cause of the shootings in CO - the societal violence that we culture here. It's not the guns; it's the depravity. Our founding fathers understood this so well - we have failed so much in losing this vision. I am reminded of the last lines in the Va Declaration of Rights:

XV "That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles."

As we cast aside the bonds that tie us to morality and temperence, the perceived need grows within society to have government control us. Moving forward, we move backwards to tyranny. The sick thing is, people think the guns are the problem - it's the mind and heart that has been cultured by the wanton left.

1 posted on 07/20/2012 9:01:55 AM PDT by I still care
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Oh, by the way, Drudge linked to this on his front page. That is where I found it.


2 posted on 07/20/2012 9:02:57 AM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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A six year old is reportedly dead and a three-month-old injured at the theater, at 12:30 AM. What is the matter with parents these days? Children should be home in bed instead of listening to special effects blow up cities at that hour.


3 posted on 07/20/2012 9:11:12 AM PDT by txrefugee
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War has been glorified as honorable. Look at war movies from the last 10 years. They glorify the explosions and the gunfire. Men get shot and just spin through the air. Bearded, foreign-speaking people shoot up crowds, blow up malls, etc. We watch and cheer on the protagonists.

The American psyche hasn’t been tried by the endless streams of bodies coming from foreign shores since Vietnam. The American government has consistently tried to keep a tight lid on the violence perpetrated overseas. News is sterilized. Things like the Berg beheading or videos of women being stoned to death by Islamists are shuffled off to the deepest corners of the Internet. To the American people, war is what we see in the theaters.

Movies like Saving Private Ryan showed the absolute cost of war. Bodies were blowing up on Omaha beach. Men walked around without arms or tried to crawl from the tides without legs. The intestines of soldiers spilled from their bellies. When a soldier was killed, it wasn’t this dramatic spinning through the air BS. It was, like the book “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, “Boom! Down.” No final dramatic gasping words. No tearful goodbyes. Just a bullet through the head or the heart and they collapsed like a sack of wet laundry.

I’m not going to be quick to blame Hollywood, but they share a portion of the burden for glorifying the violence. They share a portion of the depravity with movies like “Machete” or “Saw” or “Final Destination” probing the deepest depths of morbid curiosity. It used to be that the worst someone would see in their lives was the bloodstained asphalt near a fatal car crash while driving home from work or the mall. Now even the most depraved scenes can be found in movies and online.

We, as a culture, have strayed from God. We’ve strayed from our roots. We’ve strayed into acceptance of homosexuality, depraved indifference to violence, and replacement of God with big-G Government.

This incident in Aurora is not unique insomuch as it’s happened before and will happen again. There’s no way to stop every man or woman with a bloodlust from falling into depression or psychosis and deciding to shoot up a movie theater or a mall or a school. Sadly, I think it’s bound to happen more as time goes on, and not because of the availability of guns. This could’ve happened with a baseball bat, a nail gun, a chainsaw, a law mower, an automobile.

We need to correct the way we think and how we portray life around us. Violence shouldn’t be glorified, it should be shown for what it is: not spinning through the air but “boom, down.”


5 posted on 07/20/2012 9:17:13 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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People are going to over-analyze this as they always do. The bottom line is, there is bad seed, and there is nothing you can do to change that fact.


9 posted on 07/20/2012 9:45:51 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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The exact same hollywierd people who claim violence in films/TV do not cause violence in society because they have no effect on people will also turn around and sell ads to advertisers because then people will buy their product.

So somehow they can magically create a demand in ones mind for a product but not inspire violence in that same mind. AMAZING.

It always amazed me that you can show, during the family hour, knifing, shooting, dismemberment, body burning, all kinds of violence against other humans but don’t you dare show a boob or a tallywacker. Oh, the humanity if someone sees a natural creation of GOD but blood and guts are OK. AMAZING!


11 posted on 07/20/2012 9:55:24 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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"If I were the parent who relented and took a 10-year-old child to see The Dark Knight, would I be sorry?

You'd be bat sh!t crazy.

26 posted on 07/20/2012 11:18:07 AM PDT by ex-snook (without forgiveness there is no Christianity)
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People over analyze things. There’s 311 million people in this country, some of them are bound to be nutters. If this really was a societal ill these types of incidents would happen weekly. They don’t.


31 posted on 07/20/2012 12:00:28 PM PDT by discostu (Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.)
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