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Originally Posted by seanchai
Wow...SMH at the turnaround in this thread.
Still bitch made shooting at innocent people with an automatic weapon in a dark, smoky theater wearing full body armor. If the dude was naked and using a revolver OR A KNIFE I'd have more respect for the man.
He'd better not live to see his 26th birthday.
The AR-15 doesn't fire a high caliber round.Quote:
Originally Posted by giovanni_hotel
Oh yeah...this right here (thanks B-1).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...comm_ref=false
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American sanity at its best...
Americans can own any gun they want with proper permits Its not the guns that are the problem. It's the fucking wacko's.I am so tired of the liberal bullshit!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Batman Massacre: A Response
by Michael Nagler
I want to make an offer to my fellow Americans who are, like myself, reeling from the worst “random” shooting the country has ever seen. My question: Have you had enough? Because if you have, I can tell you how to stop this kind of madness. I know that’s a bold claim, but this is not a time for small measures.
http://www.commondreams.org/sites/co...ages/joker.jpg
We cannot fix this tomorrow, because we didn’t cause it yesterday. We have been building up to this domestic holocaust since – to take one milestone – television was made available to the general public at the conclusion of World War Two.
If you are still with me, you are prepared to believe that it was not a coincidence that this massacre took place at the scene of an extremely violent, “long-awaited” movie. Psychologists have proved over and over again that – guess what – exposure to violent imagery produces disturbances in the mind that must, in course of time, take form in outward behavior. The imagery can be in any medium, nor does it matter whether on the surface of our minds we think what we’re seeing is real or made up. This is a natural, scientific law. Exactly who will crack next and in what setting is nearly impossible to predict, and in any case it’s ridiculous to try to run around stopping the resulting violence from being acted out after the mental damage has been done. The only sane approach is not to do it in the first place.
As Lt. Col. Dave Grossman pointed out in his book, Let’s Stop Killing Our Kids, the video games that the Army uses to prepare ordinary men and women for combat, in other words to wipe out the normal empathy and inhibitions against hurting others that we’ve built up over millennia – a process known as civilization – are the very same games our young people buy across the counter throughout the country.
Of course, there are other factors. At some point we will have to talk about readily available weapons; at some point we’ll have to realize that a nation that engages in heartless drone warfare, torture, and extrajudicial killings cannot expect to live in peace. But until we liberate our minds from the endless pounding of violent imagery I fear we won’t be able to think clearly about those factors (or for that matter anything else).
With rare exceptions, film and video game producers will not stop turning out these dehumanizing products as long as there is profit to be made from them – and not enough sophistication about culture or the human mind to warn us about their dangers. But there is a way, one that has worked well on the small scales on which it has so far been tried: don’t watch them. Captain Boycott had the right approach.
Right now police have been posted at theaters where this same movie is being shown – still. But ask yourself, what are they protecting? Is it perhaps the belief that violence is just entertaining? People, tell me when you’ve had enough.
https://www.commondreams.org/sites/c...ael_nagler.jpg
Michael Nagler is Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC, Berkeley, where he co-founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program
What's liberal or conservative got to do with it?Quote:
Originally Posted by scopas66
You've been a member on a tranny forum for 4 months and this is the only thing you've bothered to comment on?
It's the guns that the wackos can get that are the problem - if that wackos can't get them, then no problem. So what is your solution to get rid of the wackos?
Yeah. The wackos are the ones who yell "Americans can own any gun they want with proper permits Its not the guns that are the problem. It's the fucking wacko's." I'm tired of this ignorant bullshit being twisted into partisan politics. Neither the right nor the left have made any moves to take away any wacko's precious guns. The issue is between a sane approach to public safety and "let's all live in the wild wild west again, overthrow the tyrannical gov'ment and shoot 'dem revenuers."Quote:
Originally Posted by scopas66
All I see here is an emotional appeal, not a logical one: one man's opinion, a man, no less, who is not a scientist but makes scientific claims with no supporting evidence or experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
Video games intended to desensitize? Really? So why don't movies and games make everyone a violent psychopath?
The ENTIRE argument is subjective. The Constitution is clear on the issue.
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Originally Posted by BellaBellucci
So change the Constitution. It's broken.