WE: After school shooting in Connecticut, Piers Morgan blasts America’s ‘gun madness’

[Bang]

^ Simplicity for simpleminded folk.

Pretty much par for the course on major issues that require partisan division to make sure nothing ever changes.

~Bang

[ixcuincle]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.n...66084451_n.jpg

This cartoon is ridiculously stupid and short-sighted.

---------- Post added December-26th-2012 at 04:08 PM ----------

Listen

I don't like Call Of Duty or most violent video games like BloodStorm or Blood Bowl or whatever they make now

But I can tell you that there is no positive link that playing violent video games makes one a killer. I'm not going to go outside and steal a jet plane because I saw it on GTA V. The mere suggestion of any link between violent video games and violent behavior is absolutely, positively ludicrous.

You cannot say that

Control the guns for all I care, deal with mental health...but don't blame it on the media. Don't blame it on violent video games, music, et cetera, because we've heard that excuse so many times before. And we've debunked that flimsy excuse time and time again.

[Special K]

Now you have teachers bringing in loaded pistols even though she has a conceal carry permit. She violated those terms bringing it to school and it's unlawful to bring a weapon on school premises.
I know this has been beaten up so many times and I've said it plenty of times, we can't have teachers carrying loaded weapons with children around. That's not going to do it and that is not a solution.

Clearly not the right move on her part, particularly since she broke a law of her conceal carry permit.

That said, I can kind of understand where she's coming from. I mean, some of my teacher friends are freaking out a bit since the Newtown massacre.

And just so I'm clear, I don't agree with what this teacher did, just saying it's not too surprising to me considering state of fear some teachers (some more than others) are experiencing.

Just solidifies (in my mind, at least ) the need for either military reserves, national guard, etc. or police officers - all in plain clothes - to be placed in schools. I think it will provide a sense of security to parents and teachers. Obviously just my opinion though...and I don't claim to know everything

[Gibbs Hog Heaven]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...tml?ref=topbar

Never let it be said we don't have a great SOH.

Hail.

[Passepartout]

There is this kid in Newtown CT as on CNN, he is urging other kids to give up their video games in honor of the tragedy!

[Special K]

There is this kid in Newtown CT as on CNN, he is urging other kids to give up their video games in honor of the tragedy!

Very sweet to see kids in this town, and kids around this country, responding to the tragedy and try to help any way they can. Last night, my dad was reading us some of the calls NORAD received about Santa Clause that NORAD published. A few questions brought us to tears...

One of the kids asked if Santa could stop at Newtown, CT first and give those kids their presents to make sure they all got presents before he ran out of them.

Another tear jerker that didn't have to do with CT was a little child whose little sister had passed away earlier this year. He requested Santa to please go to Heaven first to make sure his sister and all the other kids in Heaven could play with their toys first

Kinda helps put things into perspective if we didn't get gifts we asked for and were upset (although I don't know a lot of adults who that would apply to) or just puts everything in perspective. There are a lot of people dealing with an enormous amount of heartache and sadness out there...hopefully all of us (despite arguing about guns, violence, etc.) remember to be happy for so many of the good things we have in life

[Mad Mike]

This cartoon is ridiculously stupid and short-sighted.

---------- Post added December-26th-2012 at 04:08 PM ----------

Listen

I don't like Call Of Duty or most violent video games like BloodStorm or Blood Bowl or whatever they make now

But I can tell you that there is no positive link that playing violent video games makes one a killer. I'm not going to go outside and steal a jet plane because I saw it on GTA V. The mere suggestion of any link between violent video games and violent behavior is absolutely, positively ludicrous.

You cannot say that

Control the guns for all I care, deal with mental health...but don't blame it on the media. Don't blame it on violent video games, music, et cetera, because we've heard that excuse so many times before. And we've debunked that flimsy excuse time and time again.

No. Video games do not make kids killers. But put an even mildly mentally disturbed person in front a violent video game, hour after hour, day after day, and tell me it will have no effect.

[Special K]

No. Video games do not make kids killers. But put an even mildly mentally disturbed person in front a violent video game, hour after hour, day after day, and tell me it will have no effect.

Thank you. Nice to see someone one who "gets" it.

That is what people like Hillary Clinton, NRA pres., (and me, although I'm not much of a figure in the national debate ) etc. are saying.

No one (except possibly the village idiot) is saying violent video games create killers. No one is pinning the blame solely on violent media. People are saying, however, that more investigation is needed in regards to the correlation studies have found between violent video/tv viewing and increases in aggressive behavior. Some people are saying it could potentially be one factor in the constellation of factors involved in create a societal atmosphere conducive to this type of insanity (mass murders, school shootings, etc.). IMO, only a ding dong conclusively crosses that off the list as a "non-factor" when there are still so many unknowns about the correlations that have been discovered by scientists...

[KDawg]

How did he get such weapons, I wonder?

~Bang

Well, he didn't have a permit. So you tell me. I'd love to know.

[Bang]

Well, he didn't have a permit. So you tell me. I'd love to know.

I have no idea, that's why i asked.

~Bang

[stevemcqueen1]

I have no idea, that's why i asked.

~Bang

Bottom line: gun ubiquity. Our country is supersaturated with civilian guns.

[ixcuincle]

No. Video games do not make kids killers. But put an even mildly mentally disturbed person in front a violent video game, hour after hour, day after day, and tell me it will have no effect.

Shouldn't we get help for the mildly mentally disturbed person then? Why should everyone pay because of one or two demented individuals?

---------- Post added December-27th-2012 at 10:31 AM ----------

People are saying, however, that more investigation is needed in regards to the correlation studies have found between violent video/tv viewing and increases in aggressive behavior. Some people are saying it could potentially be one factor in the constellation of factors involved in create a societal atmosphere conducive to this type of insanity (mass murders, school shootings, etc.). IMO, only a ding dong conclusively crosses that off the list as a "non-factor" when there are still so many unknowns about the correlations that have been discovered by scientists...

So you're saying exactly what I said earlier.

BTW..a lot of people think that violent video games are responsible for these violent acts. Go check your previous comments in this thread. Go check the media. Go check the bastardized cartoon that Koolblue13 posted. That perception is out there. And it's dangerous to stifle first Amendment rights to preserve 2nd amendment rights.

[LeesburgSkinFan]

There's a gun show this weekend at the Dulles Expo Center. Anyone going?

[Jumbo]

ix, I like you fine as an ES poster, amigo, so don't take the following as anything contrary to that--I actually held off posting over the last few days cuz I'm such a softy (it was Christmas! ) but I keep reading you here so I'm going ahead. Most was writ tent right after the relevant posts appeared, and then all pasted together for this time.

I worked as a psychologist doing experiments for some time back in the day. I oversaw many experiments and studies.

I wouldn't argue with too much of what you said on some of the basics of research and statistics (and the same actually holds with what K is saying, though you guys are at odds in the conversation). My personal views on violent content in video games aside, I do know what K does, professionally, and what it means in terms of her formal education. I think she’s more than holding her own with you so far.

Being someone who is and does what you say you are and did, I have to ask what kind of psychologist you are---because, legally, in every state in the U.S., that means you have a PhD (APA or not)---unless you are a school psychologist, which is a whole different bag and has almost zero to do with big boy research.

So when you say "worked as a psychologist doing experiments for some time back in the day" that sounds like you were not only specifically credentialed as stated, but somehow at your current ripe old age of 27, you still manage to have a "back in the day" period where you had achieved that rank a few years sooner than possible unless you're a genius.

Then there's this on your profile page under occupation--- Unemployed collegiate student. I also see you give your location as 'twitter" and you interests as "listening to 80's music , playing computer games , listening to sports on internet & radio" so you sound fine to me.

It's hard to imagine a guy who could get a PhD in psychology some years before hitting 27, or even by 27, is actually unemployed and has chosen to go back to in school to remedy it, even in this economy. I hope it gets better.

But dismissing the history, evolution, and level of violence-centered video gaming as one of the notable components of our culture’s violent content, and one (just one mind you) that is reasonably relevant to the overall socialization occurring within that culture (and of course individuals will vary in response), seems neither very intelligent or very scientific.

Now, figuring not much will ever be done in some serious limitations of such games beyond the advisories they already carry (and similar with the guns side of it) makes sense to me.

As I've said, I’d contend they all play a role (as pieces of a whole) in the shaping of the current issues we find ourselves in---and I mean all forms of wide-spread numerically significant crazy-ass violence in such a materially rich culture--- but I keep saying we have neither the will or ability (and I include denial and rejection as linked to ability) to change it.

ALL the horses are long out of the barn.

To mix football into a tailgate topic, we are exactly who they thought we were.

Don't blame it on violent video games, music, et cetera, because we've heard that excuse so many times before. And we've debunked that flimsy excuse time and time again.

First, I'd watch the "we" in "we've", and sweeping claims of "debunking" without specifying exactly what has been "debunked." Even a psych 101 student knows that behavioral conditioning is "real" and games of a culture very much say a lot about that culture. But I have yet to see anyone in the thread blame it all on video games.

To some extent, mi amigo, I think "thou dost protest too much" and I can't help but also note that while you say

I don't like Call Of Duty or most violent video games

you actually have also posted many times of really liking and regularly playing a number of video games with serious violent content. Soooooo

In this, you seem a leeeetle like the gamer version of the "gun nut" who has his fingers in his ears and is yelling "nonononononononono" at even the raising of the subject.

<edit>

So you're saying exactly what I said earlier.

BTW..a lot of people think that violent video games are responsible for these violent acts. Go check your previous comments in this thread. Go check the media. Go check the bastardized cartoon that Koolblue13 posted. That perception is out there. And it's dangerous to stifle first Amendment rights to preserve 2nd amendment rights.

I’ll have to re-read, because I think here (red highlight) it’s more like you’re swinging closer to what she’s been saying than your previously over-stated (to me) position. The rest of that post keeps one of my eyebrows raised a little in your direction. (our grin smiley is broken)

And I’m not anything like some “getting rid of our guns” extremist.

[twa]

Well, he didn't have a permit. So you tell me. I'd love to know.

neighbours daughter bought the rifle and shotgun
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/29/ny...y.html?hp&_r=0

wonder if that was one of the burned homes