Can We Stop Blaming The Guns?!

[bowaholic]

You wanna know what really angers me about the whole gun banning and hysteria over the last year?  How about we blame the violent video games that kids now a days are playing instead of the inanimate objects being guns?! Today's youth is too busy sitting on their asses slugging 2 liters of mountain due while they play a video game where they go into a school or a house and get points for killing innocent people! ARE YOU KIDDING ME, POINTS??!! And these flipping Liberals are blaming the guns??!! These kids now a days since they are 8 years old or younger play these games where killing is glamorized, grow up not knowing the difference between real life and a game.  I would guarantee you that if you studied a lot of these mass shootings you would find that most of, if not all the killers played these games.  Yes they put and age limit on buying the games but young kids find ways around them too easy.  In my opinion just get rid of them all together and instead of teaching kids how to kick in a door and shoot children, teach them things like responsible gun handling, respect and a hard work ethic! 

[Water Rat]

While your at it......get rid of the "MTV Raps" ,  where all the gang-banging rappers glorify guns , money and ho's. It's freaking deplorable what kids watch on TV.

[apoallo]

I think the real problem is the mental status of these shooters. Yes the video games probably give aid and make the fantasy. However myself being 28 Ive watched war movies all the time with my parents and played loads of violent video games in my teens and way younger.. the difference is that my mental status allows me to come back to the "real world" after the tv or video games is turned off. While these mass shooters minds are stuck in the fantasy world sort to speak. If video games and MTV has anything to do with it at all. Hard for any of us to say without being there... In my opinion I think you are half right but I tend to put the focus on the mental health issues. That being said, police, law makers government etc. etc. cannot fix the problem which is mental health soooo they go after the next best thing, taking away the tools of which these people maily use,. Not saying they couldnt use swords screw drivers etc.. or explosives. I understand your frustration way too much my friend......

[deerpassion]

I agree with apoallo, I'm the same age , love war movies n though not so much anymore I've played most of the call of duties n what not... I think it really comes down to parenting, and we're seeing more and more results of diminishing values in parents these days ... I was always outside when I was a kid , to the point I used to catch hell because I always stretched it down to the last second before I had to be home before dark... Definitely a connection between physical activity and mental status , and with kids glued to tv's , phones and computer there becoming fatter n fatter too ... All the more reason to get a kid in the woods as soon as they can walk give em something to be passionate about ...

[bowaholic]

I agree with apoallo, I'm the same age , love war movies n though not so much anymore I've played most of the call of duties n what not... I think it really comes down to parenting, and we're seeing more and more results of diminishing values in parents these days ... I was always outside when I was a kid , to the point I used to catch hell because I always stretched it down to the last second before I had to be home before dark... Definitely a connection between physical activity and mental status , and with kids glued to tv's , phones and computer there becoming fatter n fatter too ... All the more reason to get a kid in the woods as soon as they can walk give em something to be passionate about ...

 

I think you have a very valid point.  There needs to be better parenting or if not parents there needs to be some kind of figure in a young person's life that can teach them respect and reality.  I can tell you my father and grandfather were that for me! I never got in trouble growing up or in school, not because I was afraid of detention or the police but I was more afraid of letting my family down.  Perfect case was the shooting in Connecticut.  He was already known to have mental issues and the mother, (not to disrespect the dead) but she wanted to be more of a friend to him than a parent and allowed him access to the weapons and (video games from what I've heard).  It is just sad how distant parents and their kids are now a days.  Back what my father was growing up there was never the "Here take this phone or game and leave me alone" mentality but the come on lets go trapping, fishing, hunting etc.  

[sits in trees]

Its the degradation of society which started decades ago when moms were forced to get jobs to make ends meet and the divorce rate which hovers at just over 50% because of people no longer being able to work things out not even for the sake of their own children. Now sit back as we reap the harvest because there is no correcting this cycle....