Yep. I won’t be surprised to learn these evil sob’s are communicating with each other somehow...egging each other on.
What do they call it, the dark web?
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And here we go again (School shooting)
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Yep. I won’t be surprised to learn these evil sob’s are communicating with each other somehow...egging each other on.
What do they call it, the dark web?
Some folks think school shootings are a new thing. They really are not. School shootings are recorded back to the 1800's. The difference was, it was one kid taking their dads gun and shooting one person they were angry with. Some folks think it is the introduction of the AR15 that is the problem. While it may be the weapon of choice for some shooters, it is far from the only gun used in mass shootings. If one goes back through all recorded school shootings, many different types of guns are used, the most common and one of the most deadly being the pistol. So if it is not the AR-15 that is the problem, what could be the problem? Some folks think bullying is the problem. The problem with that is bullying has always been around. Yet kids have not always gone to school and shot ten or twenty people because they were bullied. The only thing left is the person doing the shooting. They are somehow different from the kids of the past. They somehow, for some reason, are more angry and have less respect for other human lives. What causes that, I'm not sure. Maybe video games play a part. Maybe the drugs we are feeding them play a part. They seem to. Or, maybe it has more to do with the changes in our society and the way kids are raised. We, as a society have done everything we can to remove God from schools, public buildings, Social events, businesses, and government itself. We have destroyed the concept of marriage and it's importance. We reduced the idea of morality to a ridiculous old-fashioned idea. The truth is whatever a person perceives it to be. There is no such thing as right and wrong or good and bad. There is only what you "feel" is ok. Maybe these creatures are nothing more than a byproduct of the decay of our society and value system. Maybe this is only the beginning of what is to come. Whatever it may be I'm pretty sure, no matter how hard we try, there is no one thing we can point to and say, "this is what caused it". I'm also pretty sure, we as a collective society are in a downhill slide and these monsters are nothing more than evidence of it.
According to the shooters parents he and a buddy of his spent hours playing video games...sometimes staying up all night.
Wanna bet what kind they were? It’s really simple and everyone is running around wringing their hands trying to figure out why these kids are deranged enough to murder classmates,
Every society and every religion in the world knows that what goes into the mind and heart of a human, especially children, eventually comes back out.
Hitler knew it...and used it. Makes you wonder how such evil and violent games were ever considered ok for young people?
All of the studies have found little to no link between violent video games and aggressive behavior. One study from 2005 claims to have a found a link, but it was opposed by 230 scholars. There is no reason for physiologists to not want this correlation, but it is just not there.
Now there has been a link to the excessive use of video games in general and overall screen time to bad behavior.
So, who else would you propose perform studies on the effects of violent video games to adolescent minds? Or do you just like to go with your gut and good ol common sense?
We are witnessing the “death of expertise”: a Google-fueled, Wikipedia-based, blog-sodden collapse of any division between professionals and laymen, students and teachers, knowers and wonderers – in other words, between those of any achievement in an area and those with none at all. By this, I do not mean the death of actual expertise, the knowledge of specific things that sets some people apart from others in various areas. There will always be doctors, lawyers, engineers, and other specialists in various fields. Rather, what I fear has died is any acknowledgment of expertise as anything that should alter our thoughts or change the way we live.
This is a very bad thing. Yes, it’s true that experts can make mistakes, as disasters from thalidomide to the Challenger explosion tragically remind us. But mostly, experts have a pretty good batting average compared to laymen: doctors, whatever their errors, seem to do better with most illnesses than faith healers or your Aunt Ginny and her special chicken gut poultice. To reject the notion of expertise, and to replace it with a sanctimonious insistence that every person has a right to his or her own opinion, is silly.
This is a very bad thing. Yes, it’s true that experts can make mistakes, as disasters from thalidomide to the Challenger explosion tragically remind us. But mostly, experts have a pretty good batting average compared to laymen: doctors, whatever their errors, seem to do better with most illnesses than faith healers or your Aunt Ginny and her special chicken gut poultice. To reject the notion of expertise, and to replace it with a sanctimonious insistence that every person has a right to his or her own opinion, is silly.
