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Drudge Report: Killer “Obviously Not Well,” “Suffered Personality Disorder,” ”Played Video Games"
Kotaku ^ | 5 hours ago | Owen Good

Posted on 12/15/2012 1:47:13 PM PST by drewh

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violent gaming does seem to be a common thread in most recent mass shooting events... http://www.policymic.com/articles/20700/oregon-mall-shooting-and-video-games-clackamas-shooter-allegedly-trained-on-video-games
1 posted on 12/15/2012 1:47:22 PM PST by drewh
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Conservatives may play video games, but know that you’re supporting a particularly despicable, pornographic quasi-Marxist culture/industry. It’s just another kind of Hollywood. Let them take the hits they deserve.


2 posted on 12/15/2012 1:49:45 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: drewh

“Watched NBC News...”


3 posted on 12/15/2012 1:50:21 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: drewh

So what?
He played video games.........that was not the reason he murdered those people.


4 posted on 12/15/2012 1:51:01 PM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: drewh

Yea, and so does drinking milk or going poop.
Millions upon millions of people play video games and only a very very very few commit crimes - there is no real correlation.


5 posted on 12/15/2012 1:52:58 PM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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Adam played his last “video game” and many innocents died.


6 posted on 12/15/2012 1:55:24 PM PST by windsorknot
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Kill your Xbox now!!!! Put down your spoon, it will make you fat.


7 posted on 12/15/2012 1:55:44 PM PST by bmwcyle (We have gone over the cliff and we are about to hit the bottom)
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“Obviously Not Well,” “Suffered From Personality Disorder,” ”Played Video Games …”

And because of this, we need to get rid of the Second Amendment? I don't do drugs. How does this plan work?

8 posted on 12/15/2012 1:56:35 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It's not about the guns. It's about the control.)
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To: Mamzelle

Video games have replaced families for a lot of young men who see no point in getting married; it is a huge industry, and new game releases are starting to rival movie releases in terms of dollars.

It is an industry that is here to stay; it fills a niche that is constantly growing.


9 posted on 12/15/2012 2:09:46 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: drewh
Good's (whoever that is) an idiot. Drudge just links to stuff and pulls out phrases. In this case...the blurb about video games is a secondary headline linked from a SUN article,
10 posted on 12/15/2012 2:12:38 PM PST by stylin19a (obama -> Fredo smart)
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Screw the video games BS. What quack prescribed psychotropic medications was Lanza taking?
11 posted on 12/15/2012 2:12:50 PM PST by FreeReign
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Only reason it’s a “common thread” is that like 90% of the people under 30 play them. Might as well blame the oxygen. The fact is nutters are nutters, scumbags are scumbags, and video games don’t make anybody either, and anybody saying otherwise is excuse mongering bad behavior with lies.


12 posted on 12/15/2012 2:15:55 PM PST by discostu (Not a part of anyone's well oiled machine.)
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Anytime anyone suggests that violence in movies, or in video games desensitizes the culture towards violence, the Hollywood crowd leaps to defend their craft. First Amendment and all that.

But there exists a multi-trillion dollar worldwide industry that does influence behavior through the use of moving pictures, art, photographs, sound, and words.

It’s called advertising.


13 posted on 12/15/2012 2:17:05 PM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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I can’t believe I’m seeing this stuff on here.


14 posted on 12/15/2012 2:24:03 PM PST by CommieCutter
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BINGO!!! I’d bet a milllion dollars that he was on those drugs......make that TWO MILLION!!


15 posted on 12/15/2012 2:24:50 PM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION........the HUMAN sacrifice to the god of CONVENIENCE.)
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Screw the video games BS. What quack prescribed psychotropic medications was Lanza taking?

Exactly.

16 posted on 12/15/2012 2:26:51 PM PST by CommieCutter
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I’d bet a milllion dollars that he was on those drugs......make that TWO MILLION!!

Chump change. I'd bet 3 mil.

'Course if I lose the bet, I'll have to owe it to you.

17 posted on 12/15/2012 2:28:06 PM PST by Graybeard58 ("Civil rights” leader and MSNB-Hee Haw host Al Sharpton - Larry Elder)
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"psychotropic drugs"

There's a number of people who have noticed a link between psychiatric or psychotropic drugs and numerous killings in the last thirty to forty years. I once lived with a woman who had mental problems and started taking psychiatric drugs under direction from some county counselor. She actually got worse the more drugs she took, and her behavior became more erratic and violent. Eventually I had to leave her after an incident with a butcher knife. That was enough for me. My own view was psychiatric medicine made her behavior worse than before she started taking them.

Since then I wondered how many people taking drugs for mental problems got worse. I'm sure there are people who claim that drugs have helped a lot of people with mental problems, but I wonder.

18 posted on 12/15/2012 2:30:10 PM PST by driftless2
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I think that it’s more of a ‘chicken or the egg’ thing. This is like blaming violence on drinking water. Everyone who’s ever committed murder has drank water.

We can blame the guns... every violent shooting has involved guns...

How about medications? Everyone who’s committed a murder spree has been on medications. (This one is probably closer to the truth.)

Almost everyone in the younger generation has played video games. Listens to similar music. Was raised on the same shows. It’s a generational thing.

The thing to remember is that violence has been with humanity for all time. I’ve been reading posts right here saying that we’ve NEVER slaughtered children before - as I’m watching a show about the Aztecs slaughtering thousands of men, women and children and committing cannibalism. They didn’t have video games. Nazis didn’t have video games.

We’re falling into the ‘blame’ trap. We’re trying to make sense of evil and we never will.

It’s only human nature, but it brings us to a bad place every time. (IE: the liberal’s ‘ban guns’ arguments)


19 posted on 12/15/2012 2:35:17 PM PST by Marie ("The last time Democrats gloated this hard after a health care victory, they lost 60 House seats.")
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Some of these drugs banish the mania. People begin to feel better and figure they no longer need the drugs. They go off them. They have rebound mania, which can include paranoia, hostility and anger.

I have seen this play out.


20 posted on 12/15/2012 2:36:16 PM PST by reformedliberal
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