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No one had to train Cain to kill his brother.
Huh.
Cops should not be allowed to play video games that depict gratuitous violence... Period.
“...the largest school massacre in American history happens in my hometown of Jonesboro, Arkansas. That was the March 24, 1999.”
The article’s posted date is August 10, 1998. This does not compute...
He cites as proof for his argument:
During World War II, US Army Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall had a team of researchers study what soldiers did in battle. For the first time in history, they asked individual soldiers what they did in battle. They discovered that only 15 to 20 percent of the individual riflemen could bring themselves to fire at an exposed enemy soldier.
Grossman knows, or as a professional soldier ought to know, that this statement has been thoroughly debunked. Marshall made up the data rendering his "study" useless.
While I may agree with some of his points, I believe that his writings need to be taken with a fairly large dose of skepticism.
Nope.
I play violent video games, used to hunt(live in CA, travel to far to hunt), own guns, beat up my three younger brothers when I was younger, etc, etc, etc, and whatever is so called bad for you.
I abhore violence to the point I won’t kill a bee if it flies into my house. I simply pick him up and take him outside.
Same with a frog that kept getting stuck in cement pond. He was going to drown eventually and would have bothered me. I took him a couple miles down the road and set him free near a creek.
He probably died by the mitts of a raccoon that night.
But, make no mistake: Take a swing at my head and it’s on like Donkey Kong.
Come to my house threatening to injure or kill anyone in the house and my dogs, I will end you on the spot, if you so much as flinch.
Other than that, I can’t stand violence and will do whatever I can to avoid it or talk myself out of it.
The very first son born of a woman murdered his brother.
The murder rate has been chopped in half since 1993. Are kids watching less TV and playing less violent video games nowadays?
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
FANTASTIC ARTICLE - THANK YOU FOR POSTING!
**and two boys, ages 11 and 13, are in jail, charged with murder. ***
The last I heard, one of those boys was living in Fayetteville, Arkansas, about 30 miles from here.
His credibility went right out the window when he referred to a statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics. They are a radical left wing, and profoundly anti-gun organization. They are pretty much indifferent to pediatrics as opposed to leftist agenda politics.
Yeah, they do. In fact children are more likely to kill because they lack the "governors" that are implanted by parental training.
They generally have less opportunity to kill.
But anyone who has worked with children know that given the right motivation they can kill even more casually then adults.
Nobody requires training to be bad. That comes naturally.
We spend time training kids from the time they can learn/understand, to be GOOD. Because we see they REQUIRE the training to be GOOD. What comes easy and natural is being bad.
The video games come into play because it’s conditioning the BAD part of people, to desensitize them and for some it crosses over into real living.
But what really kills us is the training to be GOOD is either ignored by parents to do, insufficient, or never was reinforced. And the lack of Christian faith in the house and such, makes it that much worse.
If you aren’t trainging to BE GOOD, and reinforcing it, and they’re only getting ‘training’ that reinforces BAD, there’s nothing they’re learning to put the video game or negative stuff into proper perspective and context. ie a Christian can explain that violence may be necessary in self-defense but not as a way to terrorize others or to be used trivially.
Meanwhile, we have other teens, in places like Detroit and Camden, who are killing people on a routine basis.
It's not video games that are prompting the killings.
Jonesboro was not the largest school massacre. Not even close. This guy can’t do the most basic research.
Wow.....
After reading this article I am now desensitized enough to kill ANY SOB who tries to take my firearms.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman considers himself the expert in Killology.
In 1975 USMC officers had classes in Killology while attending TBS (from a Marine Captain).