Newtown, Connecticut Elementary School Shooting

[DragonIIDX]

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Shooting kids and teachers at an elementary school? Then commits suicide after? Just because you think your life is messed up, don't take it out on little kids and then cowardly killing yourself after. Right before Christmas too the bastard. I don't want to live on this planet anymore...

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

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"Oh great, lets divert our attention and blame video games!" ~Everyone who can't think for themselves

The factors leading people to do such things are endless. I wouldn't say that people can't think for themselves if they think video games are the cause.

Let's face it, they certainly contribute.

But to leave it to just video games is horse shit and mindless.

Here's why:

In America especially, we are shown violent images every day. And it's considered "fine". In our American media, a naked human form is worse than murdering a person by forcing their body to inhabit battery acid till they dissolve and die. Movies are rated R for the sexuality more times than the violence.

Someone else, who I can't be bothered to quote, said that we all subconsciously like violence, and I'm forced to agree with that statement. I enjoy watching movies or anime even where there are violent scenes.

Now I'm not saying it's a reason for us to go shoot up schools. Please don't take that the wrong way. These people sicken me. Especially when it's children who have no idea that they're alive yet.

[Ohaider]

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meaningless disoriented coward
can't express in words how i feel about this

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government conspiracy theories etc.

[adlp]

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im betting this massacre is going to be one of those historical events where people will ask in a couple years, "where were you during the Newtown Massacre?"

[Choofers]

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I'm not sure what to think about Middie's post.

welp


So let's change the subject. The children died because God wasn't a part of the school

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/14/mike-huckabee-school-shooting_n_2303792.html

[noname219]

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Video games can contribute if it's misinterpreted by someone who is having troubles in his life. But, they have way less impact than social pressure, unstable family conditions or academic stress because those affects directly your lifestyle.

@ Reincarnate : really interesting video you posted earlier (the one with the forensic psychiatrist - that guy is right full on, he knows his stuff).

Also, about that music argument :

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I'm not sure what to think about Middie's post.

welp


So let's change the subject. The children died because God wasn't a part of the school
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2303792.html

why would you willingly spur a religious debate in an already argumentative thread?

[Choofers]

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because it's funny and totally delusional and no one is going to take this guy seriously anyway

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thumbs up

[Crashfan3]

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So let's change the subject. The children died because God wasn't a part of the school
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2303792.html

Obviously it's because god is a gentleman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=is2x7QTZ8AI

edit: behold, everyone, the response we all expected!: http://blogs.sparenot.com/godsmacks/...e-destruction/ #GodSentTheShooter

[adlp]

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cant stand huckabee

[Reincarnate]

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The factors leading people to do such things are endless. I wouldn't say that people can't think for themselves if they think video games are the cause.

Let's face it, they certainly contribute.

But to leave it to just video games is horse shit and mindless.

Here's why:

In America especially, we are shown violent images every day. And it's considered "fine". In our American media, a naked human form is worse than murdering a person by forcing their body to inhabit battery acid till they dissolve and die. Movies are rated R for the sexuality more times than the violence.

Someone else, who I can't be bothered to quote, said that we all subconsciously like violence, and I'm forced to agree with that statement. I enjoy watching movies or anime even where there are violent scenes.

Now I'm not saying it's a reason for us to go shoot up schools. Please don't take that the wrong way. These people sicken me. Especially when it's children who have no idea that they're alive yet.

I sincerely doubt they contribute all that much. No studies support that claim, and the ones that do have been found problematic. Even SCOTUS has made it pretty clear:

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/08-1448.pdf

[Ambiguous proof will not suffice. The State’s evidence is not compelling. California relies primarily on the research of Dr. Craig Anderson and a few other research psychologists whose studies purport to show a connection between exposure to violent video games and harmful effects on children.

These studies have been rejected by every court to consider them, and with good reason: They do not prove that violent video games cause minors to act aggressively (which would at least be a beginning). Instead, “[n]early all of the research is based on correlation, not evidence of causation, and most of the studies suffer from significant, admitted flaws in methodology.”

They show at best some correlation between exposure to violent entertainment and minuscule real-world effects, such as children’s feeling more aggressive or making louder noises in the few minutes after playing a violent game than after playing a nonviolent game.

Even taking for granted Dr. Anderson’s conclusions that violent video games produce some effect on children’s feelings of aggression, those effects are both small and indistinguishable from effects produced by other media. In his testimony in a similar lawsuit, Dr. Anderson admitted that the “effect sizes” of children’s exposure to violent video games are “about the same” as that produced by their exposure to violence on television. And he admits that the same effects have been found when children watch cartoons starring Bugs Bunny or the Road Runner, or when they play video games like Sonic the Hedgehog that are rated “E” (appropriate for all ages), or even when they "view a picture of a gun."]

[foxfire667]

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So let's change the subject. The children died because God wasn't a part of the school
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2303792.html

Huckabee said on Fox News.

I know they aren't exactly the most credible news network, but it really is beginning to seem as if every time I read something hilariously silly, Fox news is always involved. What's that, racist sandwiches? We'll get right on that news worthy material.

[Reincarnate]

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Fox isn't exactly news