The guy claimed that the kids were shot similar to the way one would shoot the characters in video games, 3 to 11 times.
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Sad truth written here.Threads like these always have one basic premise and motivation: "I don't care if you take or ban what other people like, just don't take or ban the things I like".
Revolver shooters being okay with banning standard capacity semi-auto magazines. Hunting rifle owners being okay with banning AR15s. And now people who don't like video games being totally alright with infringing the First Amendment, as long as it doesn't affect anything they're personally interested in.
Shameful.
Cosmoline said:We don't have his psych records yet, and it's clear his family was highly protective of him. There's no connection between Asperger's and violence. Quite the contrary. The guy likely had much more serious problems which may be why the mom never let anyone interact with him.
+1, going back to the first murder, it was indeed God that spent several thousand years bringing the remedy, but one that America in the last few decades has progressively dismissed and excluded from our society. We have gone from a Judeo-Christian heritage and culture to a secular humanist society in the last 50 to 60 years.Alaska444 may be onto something here ... but there's still something missing.
At 68 years of age, having been a gun owner for 58 of them ... and an Infantry Combat Vet (got to my unit January 6th, 1968) and product of the Army's "more effective" training system I have to point this out.
With the exception of my combat experiences, I have never before or after used any of my firearms to threaten, wound or kill a human being. The reason is that I have a properly formed conscience, moral compass if you prefer and understand that my God has commanded me to "do no murder". I also realize that the society in which I live has passed laws against that behavior.
Some individuals do harm to others because a mental condition renders them incapable of understanding right from wrong. Other individuals do harm to because they lack a moral compass or are truly evil.
My point is that it is not the training videos or silhouette targets that creates a propensity to murder or violence because neither I nor millions and millions of my fellow Vets have seen fit to murder. Further, neither has this been the case for even more millions and millions of non-veterans. Thus, I'm not inclined to blame the video games either ....
BUT, given exposure to the same external stimuli and circumstances and situations there is a difference in behavior and it is precisely this difference which needs be the focus of the debate. Why is it that one person reacts negatively while another peson does not? This is difficult and people and politicans like easy solutions, hence the demand to ban certain guns, to ban certain magazines ... but it doesn't get to the root of the problem. For my part, I'm going to start demanding that my representatives refocus the debate to the failings of the mental health system. Afterall, wasn't the first recorded murder the result of jealousy and wasn't the weapon of choice a rock or a club? It sure wasn't an "assault rifle with a 30 round clip"!
Stating that sitting in front of a video game that graphically reflects death at your hands and thinking it won't have any influence on how folks react does not reflect that facts of how humans respond.
Actually, the topic has entered on what is causing all of these events and indeed, folks can and do have convictions outside of the Christian community. No one disputes that but when you look at the society I grew up with in the 50's and 60's, we have strayed greatly.You say that this is how we will respond. Well, the people going out and commiting planned mass murder attacks aren't "responding". They are acting, and others are responding. I also highly doubt every person who plays Need For Speed will start racing every time they pass a car with a body kit in real life, same applies to FPS games.
I also disagree with your notion that religion has anything to do with this. Immorality is not limited to the non-religious, and even someone who does not believe in a deity can have morals. I don't want to debate religion on this forum, but I want to make it very clear that just because someone doesn't have the same beliefs doesn't mean they don't have a sense of right and wrong.