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Originally Posted by Mutt
The Founding Fathers couldn't see the future, couldn't imagine television, video games, the Internet, and a country of 330 million filled with dysfunctional families and teenagers on psychotropic drugs. Most teenagers 250 years ago were considered adults, there was no 'teenage angst'.
Anyway this is a terrible situation and it will get worse, the more kids see these shootings all over the TV and the Internet the more 'normal' this will become to the sick ones as a solution to their problems.
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I wonder if this is a huge part of the problem...
My father died when I was a babe, nine months old, and combined with a slight speech impediment they thought I might have some mental issues. I saw the school physiatrist for years in grade school. Looking back at it they paid a lot of attention to this.
Now I see kids completely fucked up. One couple I am friends with... Husband has kids from a prior marriage, wife has kids from a prior marriage, they had a baby together, married for 12 years, called it quits and now their kid is on FB - 12 years old - complaining about how messed up her life is and is trying to raise money to go see her "lesbian girlfriend" that she's never met who lives half way across the country. The kid had problems before the divorce, and now she's completely screwed up. No one is paying attention.
Toss in some fancy medications to keep the kids in line and add in some Call Of Duty and presto, we have violence just waiting to happen.