Posted on 12/18/2012 5:33:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
At our local high school, Halo was THE game the students in the same graduating year as Lanza were playing every spare moment of the day and night. Several in the top of the class. How did they turn out? There’s the one who attends a Christian university and was in Africa this summer doing his missionary. There’s one who gave his life for this country and it’s freedoms in Afghanistan. There are two who are studying computer tech. Another one is in ROTC and just got his contract in the Army. Several are in college studying business, the health field and a couple want to be teachers. All either own guns or know how to shoot. Yeah, being around guns and playing Halo really were bad influences on them.
I take it you hated the ruling.. To me it was good..
the writer stated that “mass shootings” are no more common today than in the past, but a good article/oped in today’s wall street journal pointed out that for the past three decades, that while mass shootings as a whole are not more common, RANDOM mass killings of unexpected innocents has increased, higher in the 1990s than in the 1980s and higher in 2000s than the 1990s
those trends are counter to the gun control legislation and statistics, by which all the “suspected” “mass killing” guns were more available and more easily available in the 1960s than today
two of the biggest changes over the same period of time while gun control has been increasing are (1) an increase in how lax ivoluntary commitment on mental health grounds has become and (2) how extensively and universally the media has insured eternal fame to any deranged mass killer wannabe, no matter where they live
if your life has been a tortuous mental journey leading to and always in dead ends, you can be rest assured you will be forever world famous - almost instantly today - if you take your revenge on life out on as many strangers as you can, fatally that is
instead of railling against the injustice of “this cruel world” inside an institutional environment, the mentally troubled are free to show the real world just how angry they are
that, not any manner of guns is the real problem
Absolutely true and well written. The world stage awaits because journalists cannot wait to endlessly talk about those that wantonly kill. Children slaughtered? All the better the story.
If my kid is watching your show, he has a problem.
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