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Originally Posted by dgraves
What has changed in the last few decades? It's not guns, they have been around for some time now.
If this was a gun issue then why are all these kids getting dressed up in specific clothing to commit these crimes? They are acting out a fantasy so where are they gettng the ideas from?
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wan't that only colombine? there is a documentary called 'manson' about charles manson and his 'family'. in it the family members talk about how they grew up watching people being killed constantly on tv with shows like gunsmoke, have gun will travel, etc and seemed to be blaming media in part for their love of violence.
so it doesn't seem to be a new thing, at least blaming it. personally i think fucked up individuals will just seek this stuff out, it doesn't make them do anything but since they have a predisposition to be attracted to such themes, there they are.
if the media would stop making household names out of these killers and if parents and society at large would stop medicating their children, i think those two things alone would go a long way in slowing or stopping mass shooting by young people.