"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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On 4/4/13 7:27 PM, Eisboch wrote:
"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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On 4/4/13 5:00 PM, Eisboch wrote:
"True North" wrote in message
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I hope there's something to limit ex-military from stockpiling
firearms.
Seems like every time there's a mass shooting by someone over 35,
turns
out he's a vet.
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Where did you hear or read that? Simply not true.
Interesting discussion on "Morning Joe" this morning about
violence on
TV, in movies and in video games. All the media focus is on the
NRA
lobbying for gun manufacturers yet many of the vocal supporters
(usually
Hollywood liberals) of more gun controls are the same ones acting
in,
producing, marketing and profiting by some of the most horrifically
violent shows, movies and video games ever made, many targeted at
young
viewers.
Is there some quality, independent evidence that proves that violent
movies, TV shows, and video games *cause* acts of violence in the
real
world. I know that from time to time such media is pointed out as
the
cause, but where is the proof? The Connecticut shooter, I
understand,
played violent media games, but he seemed to be suffering from
mental
illnesses. Media doesn't cause mental illness.
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Apparently there is, at least by doctors and mental health experts.
The discussion this morning was with Campbell Brown who wrote an
opinion
piece on the subject for the Wall Street Journal. (a link to the
article is provided below that includes the reports by doctors and
mental health people).
But Harry, we don't need studies, surveys and polls to validate
common
sense in rationally thinking people. The level of gory violence in
some
PG-13 rated movies and certainly in some of the video games that
young
people play have served to desensitize them to the sight and sound
of
heads exploding, blood spurting, brains spattering and other
horrific
(and very realistic) violent scenes. I've seen some of the video
games
that young people play. I couldn't believe it. Things have
changed
since "101 Dalmatians"
Brown makes an interesting point. In Europe, violence on TV is
regulated but sex and nudity is tolerated much more so than in the
US.
In the US, the opposite is true with the FCC highly regulating
broadcast TV sex, nudity and vulgarity but has no standards on the
regulation of violence. The movie industry is self-regulating (ha
ha
ha) with their "voluntary" ratings. Video game programmers and
manufacturers are free to do whatever they want.
Cable TV can pretty much do what they want also.
To disregard the media as having an affect on young people's minds
(or
even old people's minds in some cases) because no acceptable
"study"
has been done is burying your head in the sand, IMO.
Here's the link to the article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...144082092.html
I'll look for cites on some studies. But it seems that most of the
mass
shootings are more closely connected to the mental health problems of
the shooters. That was true in the Giffords case, the Colorado theater
shootings, the Virginia Tech shootings, the recent Connecticut school
shootings.
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You don't have to do a study to see the effects of media violence on
youngsters today and you don't need mass shootings to witness it.
Non-lethal general violence in schools is on the rise that includes
simple fights and more serious personal attacks. My daughter has two
boys, one in the eighth grade and the other a sophomore in high
school. This is the same school system that she graduated from along
with my oldest son.
Nothing compares to what it was like then and now. And the drugs.
Unreal.