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People are scapegoating everything. No one is willing to man up and say that we need better mental health care. All of these mass murderers have mental issues. All of these mass murderers have famalies and friends. Why did no one say anything? Why did no one try to help them? Now we get to the point of, "Oh its the fault of guns," "Oh it's the fault of violent video games and movies." Both excuses are bullshit. The only thing that pulled the trigger was the person behind it. Guns didn't do it them selves, games didn't do it, movies didn't do it, it was the psycho that did it. When the NRA came out the Friday after the murder with their press conference and I read the part about games, I was a little annoyed, but then I got to thinking. It was not so much an attack on games as form of calling out the Media in general. We glorify violence, we revel in it with Movies, TV shows, and games. Yet the same people who turn out violent media are the first people to blame an inanimate object for a tragedy. They don't see any fault that they may have. Do I personally believe violent media is at fault? No, not at all. There is no one really to blame but the murderer. Though we do need to have a serious discussion on the effects of news media in the reporting of a mass murder. The Murderer is almost idolized. They publish his name, his "kill count," his motives, everything. Then they immediately attack firearms and continue to idolize the murderer. That is why these killings happen, because we report it with such fervor that it almost cries out for a copy cat.
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  • [quote]People are scapegoating everything[/quote] But... you just blamed it all on lack of mental healthcare...

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  • So what you're saying is that it's all the fault of the country? Why don't other countries need better mental health care? It's the fault of the parents. Too many really stupid people are able to become parents and raise kids that are of crap caliber who go off and do stupid things. That is a gross oversimplification, but it makes my point. It's the problem of how people are raised that creates the issue in most cases. Your explanation is as ignorant as the rest. Most of the publicized killers didn't know a thing about being idolized, of their kill count, or anything like that. The ones who strive for that make a local news article at best most of the time. Regardless it is a fault of parenting, something that in this day and age really needs to be looked at. My parents received a letter from my district about the flu. It said to watch for signs of fatigue (tiredness). They felt that parents didn't know what fatigue meant. That is an issue and really shows that problem in full.

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  • Bingo. Today's parent's are not only oblivious and completely ignorant of their children, the majority frankly don't care. Their kid cries, give em an iPhone. Their kid is bored, buy them COD. When was the last time you heard of parents actually spending quality time with their kids WITHOUT TECH DEVICES!, legitimately cared about what they were doing in school or even sat down to play a simple board game. Shit, when was the last time a family all sat at the dinner table together. The family element is completely broken in this world and that is the main source of all the ridiculous problems we have. Morals, values and just a solid foundation of family is gone. People care more about some random ass person on a Facebook page, some dumbass celebrity taking a shit or whatever other superfluous crap.

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