But again the violent crime rates are going down. Doom, the video game that generally is used to start the age of “popular violent entertainment” turns 20 next year, we have an entire generation that has now been brought up in that era, that know no pre-Doom world, and the violent crime rate is down. So if there’s a large swath of adolescents being effected by this entertainment where’s the crimes?
The dirty secret of gangsta rap is that their primary consumer is, and has been for a long time, middle class and higher suburban white kids. And again if there’s a large group “compelled” to lawlessness and hedonism by it where are the crimes?
It’s actually 3 or 4 jumps too far to conclude a movie franchise is complicit in a mass shooting. It’s so many jumps too far as to frankly be a stupid thing to say. Hundreds of millions of people have watched these movies, and 1 of them turned into a nut spree killer, and he didn’t even dye his hair the right color. He didn’t kill ANYBODY because of some movies, he killed because he’s insane. His look and timing might have been inspired by a movie, but somebody that nuts is born, not made, he was gonna snap at some point.
I didn't really mind having to tap dance everywhere, for the next few years afterwards... but following Debbie Reynolds around, every place she went, was bloody murder. ;)
You are not series, right?
It’s actually 3 or 4 jumps too far to conclude a movie franchise is complicit in a mass shooting.
Except that...hold on...someone brilliant wrote something addressing this--wait that was me. Shucks. Here:
Shooter dresses out as the lead villainous character, IDs himself as such, shows up at this specific movie premier and kills as many innocents in attendance as possible.
This nut "became" the violent fictional character. He was predisposed, upon consuming the product over some extended time frame most likely, and to act upon it. And we know why(he was predisposed).