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Authorities: LA freeway shooting suspect a "loner" and "gamer"
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| February 21, 2013
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Posted on 02/22/2013 5:05:01 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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Yet another video game associated massacre. Ban violent video games. There's no mention of video games in the Bill of Rights.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
We’ve had the Second Amendment for two centuries without an epidemic of murderous rampages until the recent dominance of a sick godless popular culture.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Well it certainly wasn’t violent movies. That just wouldn’t make the movie lobby very happy.
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posted on
02/22/2013 5:11:44 AM PST
by
vmivol00
(I won't be reconstructed.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Notice how they never mentioned that he’s a Muslim. It’s obviously politically correct to stigmatize loners and gamers, but not Muslims.
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posted on
02/22/2013 5:23:57 AM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Zhang Fei
Notice how they never mentioned that hes a Muslim. Its obviously politically correct to stigmatize loners and gamers, but not Muslims.It may be that in this case that his religion or lack of same had no effect in this rampage, but that's never stopped from the left to label any killer with the most remote connection to Christianity as a "Christian terrorist".
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Congratulations, Colonel, on your promotion.
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posted on
02/22/2013 5:39:27 AM PST
by
kitkat
(STORM THE HEAVENS WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Bite your tongue. I’ve been gaming since I was 6 years old, and started online when I was 13. I won’t say I’m exactly fine up there due to personal circumstances, but gaming doesn’t make me want to go out and kill people. That, plus being into music has always kept me away from doing idle things, like drinking often and heavily, or ever being tempted to do drugs. Yeah, kids do need to go out and get exercise, but keep in mind how neighborhoods are becoming in America. If I was a teenager now, I’d rather spend my time playing games over going out, because odds are I’d find myself being arrested for nothing.
See my tagline. The vast majority of gamers haven’t harmed anyone lately.
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posted on
02/22/2013 5:44:28 AM PST
by
wastedyears
(I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo; Zhang Fei
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posted on
02/22/2013 5:44:28 AM PST
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Earlier this week . . . Adam Lanza . . .
That is a stretch in the story line. Yeah, don’t forget white boys do this.
Here is the reward to Syed - 72 vigins coming right up. End of Syed.
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posted on
02/22/2013 5:45:09 AM PST
by
healy61
To: Colonel Kangaroo
More likely it is that some psychotics are attracted to violent video games and so long as they stay with their games they don't go killing real people. Sometimes they reach a point where the games are not enough. I used to think that the games caused the problem but I have got to know a couple of crazy gamers that i strongly suspect will act out in the real world eventually. I don't know that they will go shooting folks but they will become obnoxious to a wider population. One fellow, in particular- I know him a lot better than the other- is fairly placid and easy to deal with in his periods between sessions but becomes quite irritable when his computer is down for longer than a day. His sister, with whom he resides gets the box fixed as quickly as she can.
The contribution that gaming does seem to make to the problem seems to be in conditioning the gamer to be a dead shot with a pistol with a first shot, though with real guns actual recoil will likely throw him off for subsequent shots.
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posted on
02/22/2013 5:48:43 AM PST
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
To: Zhang Fei
Muslim. What better motive is there?
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posted on
02/22/2013 5:51:04 AM PST
by
Venturer
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Forget the videogames. I want to know what websites he visits. They’d be quick to blame FR if it was one of them!
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posted on
02/22/2013 5:52:34 AM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: wastedyears
I know very, very few people go nuts who play video games. I’ve got a brother who plays “Call of Duty”.
To: Tanniker Smith
And it’s obvious that he didn’t have a Rush Limbaugh book or we’d have never heard the end of it already.
To: Venturer
A Muslim who only killed non-Muzzies and only shot at non-Muzzies. Why won’t these POS shoot up their own kind?
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posted on
02/22/2013 6:00:13 AM PST
by
dennisw
(too much of a good thing is a bad thing --- Joe Pine)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
They need check to see if he played, “Grand Theft Auto” recently He may have transcended the game to real life and thought he would get enough bonus points to paint his dream car if he offed himself after one of his mission.../s
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Dang good observation. Never occurred to me to look at it that way.
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posted on
02/22/2013 6:03:33 AM PST
by
VaRepublican
(I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
To: dennisw
Actually, based on his name, there’s a good chance he was Hindu, not Muslim.
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posted on
02/22/2013 6:06:30 AM PST
by
william clark
(Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
I’m sorry to hear he plays the most casual shooter out there. I played SOCOM back in its heyday, from 2003 through 2007.
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posted on
02/22/2013 6:08:49 AM PST
by
wastedyears
(I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
What else might we surmise about Ali?
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posted on
02/22/2013 6:20:30 AM PST
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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