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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
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.
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.
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Using that link I posted, there were 16 school shootings from 1960-1969. Ironically in the 1950s there was 21 school related shootings. They didn't have first person shooters in the 50s or 60s or Facebook and what ever other media people want to blame.
These shootings are nothing new, we just hear more about them, but it doesn't mean that is their cause. If you read through some of the shootings on that list from 20,50 or even 150 years ago they have some of the same reasons as the kids doing it today.