Keyser Söze wrote:
On 10/9/15 10:00 PM, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Söze wrote:
We can’t do nuttin’ about this, sez the Republicans…

Today

One fraternity member was killed and three others wounded in a fight
that escalated into a shooting early Friday near a Greek-life dorm at
Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz.

and

One student was killed and another person was injured after someone
opened fire outside a Texas Southern University dormitory on Friday
morning, prompting a lockdown at the Houston school, officials said.


Not guns, but what is the reason there is so much more violence these days?
There were lots of firearms available when I was young. But we had a few
fisticuffs, not shooting and knifing. Look at the amount of stabbings
these days. Overall tells that is not the weapon that is the problem, but
society today. We had cowboy and Indians movies, but not a constant input
of heads blowing up in slow motion, or the popular computer games that are
ultra violent. Probably make "Mortal Combat" seem tame these days. We are
looking at the tools, not the process. Maybe all those kids that were let
off because their shrink said they had a bad childhood, are coming back to
shoot and stab their fellow man.


These "ultra violent" movies are shown all over the free world. Why are
there not the level of shootings "there" as we have here, adjusted for
population differences?

I agree with you that our society is violent. We need to do something
about that.


Lots of those ultra violent movies are censored in other lands. And you
can see lots of violence in youth in Europe. Adults also. Look at the
violence at Soccer matches. Maybe they do not let their youth get away
with claiming bad childhoods, and punish them in the formative years. They
also do not have the huge group of single parent, unwed mothers I bet.