Posted on 08/04/2019 6:16:27 AM PDT by Plain and Simple
Video games. Why were there no mass shootings until the advent of video games in the late eighties-early nineties?
Damm... I played all the FPS games as a kid, from DOOM to Call Of Duty(adult gaming ... sad) and never ONCE had a desire to replicate the in-game behavior on real people. Why didn’t I turn in to a mass shooter?
You mean like the whole sleep learning & what supposedly movie theaters did once back in the 1950s -1960s to increase soda & candy sales.
Myth: In both cases the original claims weren’t verifiable!
The whole Svengali claim of hypnotizing someone to do unspeakable acts is fiction also.
Tell me why do you want to believe in what would be a very very complex very hard to maintain security secret conspiracy to do so such a thing?
Did anyone get a screen shot of his Mylife page before the left changed it?
Breakdown of the society as it moves from one based on Christian principles to atheistic / materialistic / opportunistic “me first”.
Do a search, I read a story about it last week. I am not at my house right now...so, I cannot spend the time to make that search.
And then I did a search.
You guys really need to “internet” more. (See how I used a noun as a verb? That is the new millennial thing. LOL.)
I can’t do a search for a non-existent study/article. Keep trying.
Hey! I “FReeped!”
Thou Shalt Not Kill. 4 generations back we grew up with that. Kids today aren’t getting that. We need to push that.
I never cared for violence in video games. When I was a kid I played games where you found hidden objects in creepy old houses, and collected a gold coin sometimes.
Now I’m grown, and too busy for games. I flip houses.
Yep. The games make me this way.
Political correctness. It is based on morality that comes from the world, not God. If it comes from the world then it comes from the devil. Good and evil have been switched one for the other. Tolerance for every form of depravity has led to intolerance for what is virtuous. It’s reflected in our mental health institutions, in the schools, even in the churches. Society itself has become depraved and exists only to be entertained.
LOL!!! And beer bottles.
The Commie Squad called for Violence
This^^^^^
May, 1927. Bath school. A janitor
blew the place up, killing 43.
(still number one for mass killings
in the US).
The college tower shooting. August,
1966. 18 killed.
The only video game in 1966 was Pong.
Pong was in the seventies.
Ibelieve Timmothy McVeigh committed the worst.
I don’t imagine that the violent video games can be helpful but they are not a cause. The cause reduced to simplest terms is entitlement. When people feel entitled to break laws, they rationalize that their lawbreaking will somehow benefit others. The mass killer theorizes that his actions will produce a social result that will somehow improve society.
Although the left wants to pin this phenomenon on the right, we can see that the larger context of entitlement is a leftist concept — doing things for the social good, breaking laws to achieve a desired end, are essentially leftist concepts. If the best form of the political right is libertarian then one’s primary concern is that one should be free but that implies that others should also be free. Your freedom to live as you please strengthens my freedom to live as I choose. The last thing a believer in that ethos would contemplate doing is a random mass murder.
No, this is really at the left’s doorstep, not ours. They continue to stress that extraordinary action is needed to solve problems of their own invention. This resonates through the education system and much of family life. Any young person nowadays is bombarded with messages that “action” is required to “solve problems,” and nobody spends any time analyzing whether these problems are real or imaginary, or if the proposed action will have any actual effect. So we live in a sort of magical fantasy world where it is not a long step at all to imagine that firing a weapon at strangers will bring about social change.
There is also not enough emphasis placed on psycho-sexual factors, the mass shooter finally feels empowered, strangers do what he wishes (there’s a reason why female mass killers are such a rare phenomenon, any female can probably bend some if not all strangers to do her wishes). Since they choose not to enable, they are sentenced to death.
When you add poorly designed treatment through toxic medications to this volatile mix, and the moral vacuum created by atheism and new age philosophies, the outcome is entirely predictable.
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