Do you believe that there is some definitive unbreachable and unchanging wall between people who are either sane/mentally healthy/socially adjusted or not any of those things?
Canadian kids play video games and watch violent movies just like american kids.
But mass shootings in Canada are very rare. Is it because of the water, or is it because of gun control? You can legally buy a gun in canada but only after criminal and mental health checks are complete. You can't buy one from a "gun" show cash and carry. You can't buy semi auto or automatic weapons nor large capacity magazines.
With 300 million guns in the US (at least) and all kinds of assault weapons and large capacity mags, I think the number of mass shootings is facilitated by access to the type of guns that enable such horrific events. Its simply a numbers game a tiny tiny number of nutbars in an environment overflowing with guns. Surely it makes sense to at least control the types of guns available and the type of individual that can obtain them and still uphold the second amendment.
Yes, if you are sane you have no trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality while if you have trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality you are insane.
Canadian kids play video games and watch violent movies just like american kids.
But mass shootings in Canada are very rare. Is it because of the water, or is it because of gun control? You can legally buy a gun in canada but only after criminal and mental health checks are complete. You can't buy one from a "gun" show cash and carry. You can't buy semi auto or automatic weapons nor large capacity magazines.
With 300 million guns in the US (at least) and all kinds of assault weapons and large capacity mags, I think the number of mass shootings is facilitated by access to the type of guns that enable such horrific events. Its simply a numbers game a tiny tiny number of nutbars in an environment overflowing with guns. Surely it makes sense to at least control the types of guns available and the type of individual that can obtain them and still uphold the second amendment.
I'm willing to bet they don't have the rampant poverty and "thug life" inner city culture we have either. There are a lot of factors to consider. Correlation does not imply causality.Canadian kids play video games and watch violent movies just like american kids.
But mass shootings in Canada are very rare. Is it because of the water, or is it because of gun control? You can legally buy a gun in canada but only after criminal and mental health checks are complete. You can't buy one from a "gun" show cash and carry. You can't buy semi auto or automatic weapons nor large capacity magazines.
With 300 million guns in the US (at least) and all kinds of assault weapons and large capacity mags, I think the number of mass shootings is facilitated by access to the type of guns that enable such horrific events. Its simply a numbers game a tiny tiny number of nutbars in an environment overflowing with guns. Surely it makes sense to at least control the types of guns available and the type of individual that can obtain them and still uphold the second amendment.
I don't think any MENTALLY NORMAL person will, simply by playing Call of Duty or Left 4 Dead or other violent video game, decide on that basis to go out and kill a bunch of innocent people at random.
A mentally ABNORMAL person may become fixated on ANYTHING, and not have the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy, right and wrong... in which case the video game is not the causal agent, the mental illness is the cause.
Candian gun laws are different (privilege vs. right) but hardly as strict as you have described them:
Global Edmonton | Gun laws not necessarily solution to gun violence: Canadian lawyer
Canada: Gun Laws To Be Eased
I'm willing to bet they don't have the rampant poverty and "thug life" inner city culture we have either. There are a lot of factors to consider. Correlation does not imply causality.
Ooh, mob on thug violence! That does sound nice!We deal with thugs in a different way, get the mafia to deal with the problem for us.
I am sorry but I must disagree with that. For many people, YES, what you describe is true. For many others, people struggle with control and can drift back and forth between lucidity and fantasy depending on stress, triggers, environment, events and all sorts of other factors.
To pretend that all people are either well and sane or mentally ill and insane is far too of a black and white all or nothing approach that defies human experience and what we know about human psychology.
Ooh, mob on thug violence! That does sound nice!
I'm willing to bet they don't have the rampant poverty and "thug life" inner city culture we have either. There are a lot of factors to consider. Correlation does not imply causality.
I never said it's the only factor. These things happen everywhere. Even here in europe. When you actually look at the statistics and take away the violent crimes from the inner city poverty and gangs, we're pretty on par with the rest of the world. Rural America (in most cases) is actually pretty safe.You are correct on that. However, American kids murder without being part of the inner city or poverty or thug life or anything but an ideal situation.
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I live two blocks from where this kid lived and grew up. Two blocks. The house if a $400K house and the kid had every advantage. So what did thug life or poverty have to do with him? What take Opie from Maybury and turn him into Charles Manson?
I know radio that you do not have the answer but I think we all need to think about these things.
There is an old saying ..... "from the mouths of babes". In one of my classes years ago we were talking about the effects of violent films and games on kids and I asked if they effected or influenced people. I will never forget what one teen said.......... "only if you are weak minded or something is already wrong with you".
I think there is wisdom there.
Well the mafia is much more civilized so we chose the mafia, there may or may not have been a window of time where the mafia was allowed to shoot up a bar where gang bangers hung out or a drive by shooting and there would be no police in the area. It's how we got rid of the Hells Angels.
I'm curious as to how you guys made a choice. Did you vote on it as a Canadian referendum?
If you are addressing that to me, you might look a little further back and see that I have not suggested violent video games cause people to kill. I agree that anyone that looks to shirk personal responsibility is missing the boat.Here is something to consider. Contrast the viewpoint of those that INSIST on attacking those suggesting that the "gun culture" and spread help cause these types of massacres, stating that "guns don't kill people, PEOPLE kill people" but are quick to attack Video Games and Violent Media as as blame for people taking such action. So a person using a gun to kill someone means the person killed people, not the guns. But a person played GTA and kills people, OMG GTA IS RUINING OUR YOUTHS MINDS! (lets not bother with the question of why the parents are letting their child who can't handle the reality of the situation play GTA. That'd be too difficult plus that parent may be pro-2nd amendment, and we can't criticize our own side!)
For those constantly exposed to violence, it becomes the norm.
I never said it's the only factor. These things happen everywhere. Even here in europe. When you actually look at the statistics and take away the violent crimes from the inner city poverty and gangs, we're pretty on par with the rest of the world. Rural America (in most cases) is actually pretty safe.
Problem beng that the crimes of the cities are part of the nation.
Of course they are. However, perhaps we should be focusing on curtailing poverty and killing the thug culture, both of which lead to gang violence and murders. We need to clean up our country, and removing guns simply isn't the way to do it. (I know that's not what you're suggesting.)
lots a luck with that one.
Here's the thing, if something as benign as a video game can cause people like Lanza to snap, then anything could. If we make an effort to remove the stimuli that cause INSANE people to act INSANE then a whole purge of our entire culture would have to take place. Let's be honest: at a certain point maniacs do what they do because they are maniacs, not because of anything that doesn't affect normal people.
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