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Originally Posted by VikingMan
Being a responsible gun owner does not mean keeping them locked up from your kids it means not raising your kids to be fucktards. When I was growing up everyone I knew had access to their parents guns. Every house in our neighborhood had a closet full of guns and the ammo was not locked up either. I never heard of anyone getting hurt from a gun and of course nobody used a gun for crime either.
These kids who commit these shootings are mentally ill from all the garbage they watch on TV and movies and all the garbage they consume into their bodies.
By the time i was 5 or 6 years old I cold have taken out a semi auto .22 rifle whenever I felt like it. Did I? No of course I did not without the supervision of my father because he would have taken me outside and beat my ass with a stick.
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so lets ban tv and all this will go away?...bullshit! there were a lot of violent tv shows in the 60's. heck, even charles manson's "family" said they grew up with violence all around them especially on tv naming shows like gunsmoke, have gun will travel, etc. also i am tired of people saying kids need to be beat more to stay in line. stats show kids who are victims of such violence are far more likely to commit violent acts themselves. just because it may have made you more subdued doesn't mean it does for everyone.
i don't think there is one pinpoint but i'd say kids being over medicated along with the breakdown of community are a couple of them. no one knows their neighbors anymore, no one cares about their neighbors anymore. life is so much more anonymous but online everyone knows everything about everyone else if they choose to share it. you can blame news media to some degree, news is so immediate and constant and everyone hangs on its last word but that is really society's fault itself rather than the media. they are just giving what people eat up. we are all monsters of our own creation.