Posted on 07/25/2012 6:41:11 PM PDT by P.O.E.
He must listen to Michael Savage , who said as much last Friday on his show .
Agreed.
I feel sorry for kids now - most of them never get to have a “kid life”. Gone are the days when you were just shooed out of the house on Saturday mornings to run around and play, make friends, fight, fall and scrape your knees, whatever.
Liberals closed the asylums and opened the prison doors. Their lawyers made everyone sue-happy and at the same time staunchly defended the thugs & creeps. Liberal parenting (I blame Dr. Spock) has led to a generation of spoiled brats. The liberal state has tried to replace fathers and religion.
Colorado Shooting Victim Suing Warner Bros For Making Violent Films
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You guys are missing the fact that Holmes is a nut job and he was going to hurt people regardless if Hollywood churned out violent movies.
Guns don’t kill people.....Movies don’t kill people.
This just reflects the breakdown of our society; the reign of those who consider that there is no such things as right and wrong or that good and evil are archaic superstitions at best and non-existent as even better.
And I wonder if the breakdown of the much maligned studio system may also play a part.
If the shooter had seen Bogdanovich’s, “At Long Last Love” he probably would have shot himself.
I thought it was Warner Oland.
In my decades of video gaming (I’m primarily an RPG/D&D/Final Fantasy style gamer) I have axe murdered, sword slashed, lazer blasted and nuked probably several hundred thousand virtual ‘humans’. Yet I haven’t been in a real life physical altercation in 20 years, much less actually killed anyone.
Now if the libs are right about the whole guns/game violence thing, I and other gamers should have long since raped, pillaged and killed a whole bunch of people.
Sooooo....why haven’t we? Because most of us still have a sense of morality, right, wrong...you know, the very things liberals intentionally breed out of people through the miseducation system. And there is a direct correlation between increasingly violent people/kids and increasingly hostile to traditional values blather spouted by liberals.
Amazing that simple traditional outlooks and morality have prevented me turning into Atila the Hun or Mr. Homes. But it would indeed seem that they have dispute me having 20+ years of being ‘influenced’ on him.
Same thing goes for the millions of ‘gun nuts’ that don’t suddenly go full auto on the wife and kids. SOMEHOW they manage to resist the evil spirit of “The Gun” taunting them at night and whispering “Kill everyone!”
I mean come on. Guns ALL do that right? ;)
Bela Lugosi. Karloff was around at least long enough to narrate “How The Grinch Stole Christmas”.
Movies certainly do influence people for good or bad.
I watched a Roy Rogers half hour show this afternoon. It had Roy, Dale and all the rest. There was a little girl whose Father was in trouble.
They found his Bible and noticed he had been reading a verse about forgiveness. Also toward the end, Roy, Dale, The Girl and even Pat Buttram all sang the song “the Bible Tells Me So”’
I immediately realized they would never show that in a modern TV show.
While violent films may encourage violence in some viewers, for other viewers it is a reminder that evil exists & vigilance must be maintained.
Recall that scary movie you attended as a child. Did you leave the movie thinking you were invincible, or highly vulnerable?
I don't much care for highly violent films. The daily news is violent enough. But I do enjoy a good action pic, & if the bad guys get hot lead, so much the better.
The problem is not the movies. The problem is watching Mom & Dad at home getting drunk & beating the crap out of each other, or parents too busy to bother with the kids. The problem is schools/churches that teach relativist crap rather than moral imperatives. The problem is a gov’t that encourages promiscuity, sloth, & corruption. The problem is a society that doesn't know what is right or wrong.
It was her soon to be ex-husband that murdered her. How many women are beaten to death, strangled, or stabbed to death as a result of such domestic situations?!
I'd bet most do not involve a gun. He is trying to tie one thing to another and not very successfully.
50 million dead by abortion, plus those killed by legal botched abortions.
But nobody knows anyone who has experienced/perpetrated such violence. < /sarc >
"How did Nixon win? Nobody I know voted for him!" - Pauline Kael.
In the Wild West, you had a fighting chance. The audience in Aurora was told to leave the guns at home. The LAW ABIDING members of the audience were unarmed. Not so the villain.
If the Left was REALLY upset about gun violence, they would be up in arms over the Obama Administration's "Fast and Furious" criminal conspiracy and the subsequent coverup.
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