Posted on 03/29/2014 9:59:00 AM PDT by B4Ranch
5.56mm
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.
bump
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
1927.
There were 38 kids killed and 6 adults. The author has his facts wrong.
People are natural born killers. No brag, just fact.
I still think Cain got a raw deal. Sheepherder offers God a lamb. That’s cool. Farmer offers God some of the produce he harvested,, and gets snubbed.
Never have had a preacher, priest or whatever give a satisfactory reason for that. But he still shouldn’t have killed his brother I guess,,,,
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.
My first thought too. Cops are killing civilians in record amounts.
Actually the largest school massacre in American history was the Bath Michigan school bombing in 1927.
45 killed including the perp and another 58 injured.
Correct. I didn’t want to list Bath, Sandy Hook or Columbine, but the dates just threw me, too, as well as his claim of largest in history.
Never have had a preacher, priest or whatever give a satisfactory reason for that. But he still shouldn’t have killed his brother I guess,,,,
Your post presumes that God is under an obligation to explain to us everything He does. He's not.
Later in Job, he directs a lot of questions to God. God does not answer one of them. Instead, He then questions Job.
God is the Creator of mankind. We are the creation. Once we understand that relationship we have the right mindset to understand God.
From an earthly perspective, did your parents explain everything they told you to do? Most likely not.
A lot has to do with the modern media and fixation on violence combined with their desire to promote their agenda.
My great grandmother once told me about a shooting at a one room school in a neighboring township when she was a child in the very early 1900s.
There are some 30+ separate school buildings in my county and I can’t find that even one has ever had a shooting. There are better than 100,000 separate school buildings nationwide.
I do think there are some things that need to be taken into account like the modern public school model that creates a large pool of potential victims. There is also the culture of subjective morality that infects the American educational system.
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
Cain's offering was a result of his own labor - the idea that you can work your way to salvation.
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