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Originally Posted by StickyGreen
If people truly cared about the mental health of our future generations then they would do things like boycott Hollywood and violent video games and any other place that children are learning about these immoral behaviors.
No one seems to want to explore the topic of psychology and pharmaceuticals and why young people are acting out in violence, they'd rather focus their energy on the guns which are simply inanimate objects used as tools by people with mental problems that started somewhere outside of the realm of "guns" to begin with.
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Jack the ripper tore apart a lot of women in London long before there was every anything even remotely like TV and video games.
Humans have tortured, killed and imprisoned each other since the beginning of recorded time. Wars have been started over stolen lovers, lives have been taken simply because people were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The reality is that humans are violent creatures. Some are worse than others. Do I think mental illness plays a role in this? Without question. Are pharmaceuticals playing a role in this? Probably.
All this said, violence among young people is at the lowest that it has been over 20 years so there isn't an epidemic of violence, but we do seem to have more of these mass shootings than in the past.