larryh1108
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The way that the newest video games may hurt the cause is it takes the previously introverted child and allows him to go home from school, where he was picked on and made fun of (it does exist) and he plugs into his video game system and he takes out his hurt and aggression on these interactive games. He has a first person vantage and this child, who is depressed and angry, becomes the hero who saves the day.
This is probably a good thing as it helps these kids get self esteem. However, those who are at a mental disadvantage don't see the right from wrong and good from evil aspect. Something inside of them can't separate the fantasy from the reality. In years past, often times these hurt kids would commit suicide and we'd hear about it on the news or not at all. Last page stuff. Now, it's front page internet news when someone takes lives needlessly because he is getting back at those who hurt him. It's not the healthy, normal kids who play these games who are the future killers but it's the ones who cannot separate between the game and real life. I doubt we could even see this in our kids or in our neighbor's kids or classmates. One day someone makes fun of them and they snap.
Every kid who plays these games will not become a killer but I feel that these mass killers are ones who would have previously just retracted from society or tragically took their own life. Now they go out in a blaze of glory because they know how. They do it every night when they save the world on their game systems.
These tragedies are so rare that I seriously doubt you could come up with viable statistics to predict anything. We all have a better chance of winning the lottery or dying in a plane crash than getting killed by a deranged shooter but people do win the lottery, people do die in plane crashes and people do go out and commit mass murder. It's a statistical anomoly that has tragic results.
The NRA is deflecting the attention from the gun to the person, as it should be. It is up to us, as a sociaty, to figure out how to pay for better security at schools if we want this protection. If every parent was told it would cost them $100 a year for school security I don't see many who would say no except the poor. In those cases the government will do their thing and pick up the tab and we all pay with higher taxes. We can't say we want better school security with no new taxes. My suggestion is to allow any teacher who wants to carry, to carry, and to provide them with enough training to make it effective and safe. I'd rather pay for training of staff than another armed guard. Make it voluntary. I'm sure every anti-gun parent would sleep better knowing someone at their kid's school was able to confront an attacker, if needed. The 2 adults who threw themselves at the shooter would have been able to be more effective if they had a gun instead of just their body. They are the heros here. Too bad we couldn't allow them the means to finish the task they took on.
This is probably a good thing as it helps these kids get self esteem. However, those who are at a mental disadvantage don't see the right from wrong and good from evil aspect. Something inside of them can't separate the fantasy from the reality. In years past, often times these hurt kids would commit suicide and we'd hear about it on the news or not at all. Last page stuff. Now, it's front page internet news when someone takes lives needlessly because he is getting back at those who hurt him. It's not the healthy, normal kids who play these games who are the future killers but it's the ones who cannot separate between the game and real life. I doubt we could even see this in our kids or in our neighbor's kids or classmates. One day someone makes fun of them and they snap.
Every kid who plays these games will not become a killer but I feel that these mass killers are ones who would have previously just retracted from society or tragically took their own life. Now they go out in a blaze of glory because they know how. They do it every night when they save the world on their game systems.
These tragedies are so rare that I seriously doubt you could come up with viable statistics to predict anything. We all have a better chance of winning the lottery or dying in a plane crash than getting killed by a deranged shooter but people do win the lottery, people do die in plane crashes and people do go out and commit mass murder. It's a statistical anomoly that has tragic results.
The NRA is deflecting the attention from the gun to the person, as it should be. It is up to us, as a sociaty, to figure out how to pay for better security at schools if we want this protection. If every parent was told it would cost them $100 a year for school security I don't see many who would say no except the poor. In those cases the government will do their thing and pick up the tab and we all pay with higher taxes. We can't say we want better school security with no new taxes. My suggestion is to allow any teacher who wants to carry, to carry, and to provide them with enough training to make it effective and safe. I'd rather pay for training of staff than another armed guard. Make it voluntary. I'm sure every anti-gun parent would sleep better knowing someone at their kid's school was able to confront an attacker, if needed. The 2 adults who threw themselves at the shooter would have been able to be more effective if they had a gun instead of just their body. They are the heros here. Too bad we couldn't allow them the means to finish the task they took on.
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