Teen is booked in deaths of two(unbelievable)

Times Picayune ^ | Saturday, December 06, 2008 | Allen Powell II

[P-Marlowe]

It seems that as we progress we should be hearing less about these kinds tragedies instead of more about them.

FWIW, there are a lot more of them because there are a lot more of us.

[BBell]

That is true. I also think that the electronic media and 24 hour news makes it appear worse. If you didn’t live down here you would probably never even hear about this unless the National News picked it up, which is unlikely. Now we know about everything, as it happens.

[Gaffer]

Maybe he felt ‘empowered’ by Obama’s win. A black man in the white house, to him probably meant he suddenly had “the power”.

[Dubh_Ghlase]

I do know that the Columbine killers had taken first-shooter games and overlaid the faces of the characters with kids in school they didn't like. I have also read of "root-cause" analysis of some of these school shooting where kids who never had firearm training were able to kill accurately, and video game playing was the only training they ever received.

In the Civil war, and WW1, it was noticed that soldiers were being killed without ever firing a shot. After review, they changed the training targets from bulls-eyes to human silhouettes. With this training change, the kill ratio went up markedly for the newly trained troops. They simply had to be "conditioned" to be able to shoot at a human target.

I have not been involved with (and won't take part in) these types of video games (I have bigger fish to fry). However, the pervasiveness of these games in the younger generation now is astounding. If I did, I would be doing one of the "Flight Simulator" games, just for the aviation training. Heck, it seems there is a market for drone pilots, and it's only going to get bigger...

[cydcharisse]

Oh good, after 8 years of it’s all Bush’s fault, now we can play the same stupid game with Obama.

[Gaffer]

You’re damn Skippy! Turnabout is fair play. I will give their president the same respect and credit they gave mine.

[heartwood]

There is something to be said about how callous kids as a whole are getting. I bought the original ‘Night of the Living Dead’ for a buck at the dollar tree. My two young kids (about 7 and 10 at the time)wanted to see it even though I warned them it was scary. They watched it without batting an eye. I was about 16 the first time I saw it and it scared me good. Gave me lots of nightmares.
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So why would you let them watch it? Why have it in your house? Now they are a little more callous than they were before.

[heartwood]

There is something to be said about how callous kids as a whole are getting. I bought the original ‘Night of the Living Dead’ for a buck at the dollar tree. My two young kids (about 7 and 10 at the time)wanted to see it even though I warned them it was scary. They watched it without batting an eye. I was about 16 the first time I saw it and it scared me good. Gave me lots of nightmares.
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So why would you let them watch it? Why have it in your house? Now they are a little more callous than they were before.

[Bogey78O]

Video games have nothing to do with this. I’ve played probably the most violent video games as soon as they came out and watched the most horrific movies even when I was in elementary school and I’ve not so much as started a fight in my life.

Blaming video games just takes the blame away from bad parents.

[Dubh_Ghlase]

I stand by my statements and the studies that have gone before me...

[Godwin1]

This should not be happening with Obama as president-elect. This kid was led to believe that the Age of Obama would be the Age of Instant Gratification and Unlimited Entitlement. For guys who look like him. He should have waited until January 21.

[Bogey78O]

And I stand by my statement and all the studies that have been done on it as well.