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I want to open a discussion about the violence against children at school in America. it is promted with recent events but it's not just one event it's many.

I propose

1) We identify autistic spectrum, sensitive, and vulnerable kids early on and give them incredible support against bullying and self esteem issues.

2) we stop sensationalizing these incidents. No media coverage, no talk shows, movies, or books. The name of the perpetrator should never be mentioned, and his life should never be scrutinized.

3) We need to end the production of "games" that glorify violence. Grand theft auto...... Really?. The majority of these crimes are committed by young people between the ages of 16--26, most of them were heavy into video games. I'm not against gameing totally, but these games are incredibly rediculouse and fuel violant fantasies while isolating the child from interaction with others. Not to mention there are child psychologists and formulas designed to addict young people.

4) I deplore gun control. I feel everyone should have a right to own own them. But, I would not mind makeing gun ownership a long and tedious process. Im workIng on my concealed weapons permit, and after Friday my wife will be joining me. There is a lengthy course and several interviews. I will never vote for anything limiting citizens to own guns, but I would vote for an elevated level of awareness and training. It should be an honer and hard won prize to be an owner of dangerous weapons. Sure criminals will just get them illegally. I understand that. It would be up to the citizen to take the process seriously and do it if they take self defense with weapons seriously.

5) It should be a felony if Somone who has not gone through the above sugestion has access to your weapons and comits a crime.

just some suggestions. My number 2 suggestion is the most important one. The media should not be able to sensationalize this. I don't know how to do that without censorship which is a slippery slope, but the media could come together and all agree, law enforcement could take vows of silence and teach survivors why they must be quite..... I don't know. But make no mistake, these incidents have become a sick fad.

What do you think?

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3) I have read articles that suggest the oppoaite, that violent games give people who have violent tendancies a release that might actually in other circumstances en up very messily.

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3) I have read articles that suggest the oppoaite, that violent games give people who have violent tendancies a release that might actually in other circumstances en up very messily.

That's possible, but that has to be weighed against desentizing people to it, and possibly creating people to have violent tendencies. Studies like that are higly suspect. Where did they find people with violent tendencies? Obviously if they are violent , they are probably not allowed to act it out by some kind of restraint, so yes... The game is going to be a release. It's hard to tell without knowing the details. But I have got to say, I deplore allowing impressionable teenagers to play that crap.

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I see teenagers every single day, and this is purely a personal observation, but I can tell the ones lost in their games. It's in their eyes. It's a distant look. It looks a hell of a lot like pictures of some of these killers. I can't put my finger on it, but it's not just about the violence of the game. Sometimes they throw fits when they loose. Normal kids turn into something different.

I have played some of these games back in the day. Have you ever listened to a group of twelve year olds and how they behave over the Internet. It's nuts.

Even some of my students end up in little huttles over minecraft and can't wait to get home. I just took a group of preteens out for a party and at least 4 of them could not wait to get home to play call of duty to shoot each other.

My kids will never own that crap... Ever!!!

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I am all for gun control, to a degree.

But I also know there are deeper issues at hand.

Killing and abusing and harming others doesn't begin and end with guns. Or begin and end in the United States.

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I agree with most of your points, but in my opinion, the one about games is ridiculous. Ban violent tv shows and movies while you're at it. Go ahead an ban books with violence as well. Should get rid of those nature documents where one animal kills another, too. Don't want anyone exposed to that kind of violence.

Why should I be punished for somebody else's inability to separate fantasy and reality?

How about make metal health services more available to those that need them? Identify those most at risk and put programs and such in place to prevent such acts of violence.

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1) We identify autistic spectrum, sensitive, and vulnerable kids early on and give them incredible support against bullying and self esteem issues.

Support against bullying and self esteem issues should be a natural thing for everyone. I think if we single out people and give 'extra' support I think that could cause further separation. Not everyone is the same and I'm glad its that way. Otherwise it almost ends up being anyone who is introverted is not 'normal' and thus should be taught(supported)to be extroverted.

2) we stop sensationalizing these incidents. No media coverage, no talk shows, movies, or books. The name of the perpetrator should never be mentioned, and his life should never be scrutinized.

I agree with this somewhat but I dont think that will ever happen. It's what the media is. It reports the news and this sadly is news. And in regards to raitings, they are really giving the public what they want. People want to read about this stuff.. they might not like it but they are still want to follow the story. People tend to be social/gossips and this is just a part of that. And if someone isnt then they are actually considered not 'normal', as far as I can tell anyway.

3) We need to end the production of "games" that glorify violence. Grand theft auto...... Really?. The majority of these crimes are committed by young people between the ages of 16--26, most of them were heavy into video games. I'm not against gameing totally, but these games are incredibly rediculouse and fuel violant fantasies while isolating the child from interaction with others. Not to mention there are child psychologists and formulas designed to addict young people.

I dont agree with this, games are fantasy and most know thats just what they are. Take for example Farcry3, my son loves that game and he hunts the animals in it but in real life he/we never kill anything. We even avoid stepping on snails and we make jokes about how they must think we move too fast. "Hey you! wait for me to cross, I'm walking here!!" etc. It's a funny thing, you kinda have to see and hear my tiny snail voice. lol. Anyway my point is I dont see this hunting in game as teaching him to not like or care for animals and I think the same applies to Call of Duty games.

Also people are interacting with other people when they play online. In this quote you say it takes away there interaction but later you say 'they cant wait to get home to shoot each other(to play together) and have you heard how they speak to each other'.. So this is still interaction and everyone is doing it, not just in games. We have smartphones, the internet, emails, twitter, facebook and all these things that could be classed as isolating people(in a face to face manner) while at the same time allowing people to communicate. So kids now days use video games to shoot each other, when I was younger we had toy guns. So its pretty much the same thing imo, just a different way of playing. Kids get together to play, at school/after school and then later they play online.

4) I deplore gun control. I feel everyone should have a right to own own them. But, I would not mind makeing gun ownership a long and tedious process. Im workIng on my concealed weapons permit, and after Friday my wife will be joining me. There is a lengthy course and several interviews. I will never vote for anything limiting citizens to own guns, but I would vote for an elevated level of awareness and training. It should be an honer and hard won prize to be an owner of dangerous weapons. Sure criminals will just get them illegally. I understand that. It would be up to the citizen to take the process seriously and do it if they take self defense with weapons seriously.

I cant comment much on the gun control because I will never understand the need to own them. I'm in Australia so we just dont tend to understand it. But I think if you live in a culture that has grown up with them and seems to adore them(more than people adore video games..)then I think you are asking for trouble. There can be many factors that come into play with people who do these spree killings. But I think if they could not at least get the weapons then they would not be able to kill as many. I think you can have laws and training as much as you like but I dont think that would still stop a kid taking his parents firearms. Sure they might have to be locked away.. but what good is that if someone is trying to break into your house at night and you got no time to get it.. yeah? So I dont believe locking them away would be acceptable to the paranoid.

Anyway I'm not sure what can be done. Teaching respect for all life I think is important but this is not really where we are at yet.

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3) I have read articles that suggest the oppoaite, that violent games give people who have violent tendancies a release that might actually in other circumstances en up very messily.

Yes I've heard that, and I've also read articles that claim our children are exposed to too much violence and it has consequences.

http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/policy/policies/v/violencemedia.html

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I also think the medications these mass murderers may be on could be a contributing factor. Not only are we a well-armed country but we are also a heavily medicated country. And violent and suicidal tendencies do occur in some people as a side effect of some medications. But this isn't discussed much or even made public. Don't mass murders make looking into how much a medication may cause violent outbursts in some verses how much it helps others worth public disclosure? Better monitoring and screening of patients on medications known to cause violent tendencies surely needs addressed as well.

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4) I deplore gun control. I feel everyone should have a right to own own them. But, I would not mind makeing gun ownership a long and tedious process. Im workIng on my concealed weapons permit, and after Friday my wife will be joining me. There is a lengthy course and several interviews. I will never vote for anything limiting citizens to own guns, but I would vote for an elevated level of awareness and training. It should be an honer and hard won prize to be an owner of dangerous weapons. Sure criminals will just get them illegally. I understand that. It would be up to the citizen to take the process seriously and do it if they take self defense with weapons seriously.

I've been thinking about this a lot over the last day or so, for obvious reasons. I've come to the conclusion that the availability of firearms in the US is not the major factor in these incidents. Sure, it makes it easier for someone to do the maximum amount of damage in the shortest period of time, but many countries have lots of forearms and don't have the number of these incidents that America does.

The only conclusion is that there is something in the American psyche about the right to own weapons like this. I've often heard people state they would protect their 2nd amendment rights with their own lives. That's how important it is. Yet no number of these incidents or accidental shootings appears to make them question that. It's like they're saying "That's our right. Bad things happen. What's to be done about it?"

That coupled with a gung-ho approach of believing you've got the right to shoot at anyone you consider might possibly be a threat (shoot first, ask questions later mentality) normalises the use of guns.

I'm sorry to say this but whilst Americans may have the right to own guns, too many of them show that they're totally unsuitable to have them. No amount of trying to identify the crazies early will address that.

Guns are not bad. Americans are not bad. But Americans with guns.......?

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ban video games but not guns? lmfao at that, violent games do not make killers. If that were the case

there would be alot more teenagers running around killing people because COD,Grand theft auto and

Assasain Greed are part of all gamers collections.Millions of these games have been sold and continue to be

and so do guns. Which really do youtkink would have more impact, banning games or guns?

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3) We need to end the production of "games" that glorify violence. Grand theft auto...... Really?. The majority of these crimes are committed by young people between the ages of 16--26, most of them were heavy into video games. I'm not against gameing totally, but these games are incredibly rediculouse and fuel violant fantasies while isolating the child from interaction with others. Not to mention there are child psychologists and formulas designed to addict young people.

I agree with most of your points except this. Most people who play these games understand that they are just fantasy. Banning games will lead to banning all sorts of things that contain violence..movies, tv shows, books. I'm very much against censorship. I don't think young children should be playing violent games, but they shouldn't be off limits to the rest of us simply because some parents are irresponsible.

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Guns will never be banned in this country. That is a total fantasy. But other countries have guns and not the problems.

I'm going to say it .... But guns don't kill people. People do. It's a fantasy to think that if Somone who wants to cause carnage won't figure out some other way to do it. Most of the perpetrators are highly intelligent. It's only a hop skip and a jump on the Internet to make IEDs. Not to mention a simple knife or even a baseball bat. A teenager with a knife can do quite a bit of damage, yet we don't see bloody attacks on children from teenagers with knives across the globe. No, the availability of guns is a very small problem. If someone smart wants to find them, they will, or they will improvise. There is something wrong with culture here. The games are not as docile as people think. They are not the same kind of games they were 20 years ago. I expected resistance to that idea... But we have to look at hard facts here. A common thread between all of the perpetrators is their age and I'd bet a million dollars all of them spent a lot of time gaming.

Canada does just fine with libral gun laws. In Mexico, guns are everywhere and enforcement of existing gun laws is near nill, and although they have violence related to drugs and gangs, there is nobody shooting up schools.

It's obvious that the availability of guns in this country is mixing with some other thing. It is an enabler, but so are knives, gasoline, baseball bats... Etc etc.

These games have gone to far. this country has a free market, so I don't see a legal ban, but it's defiantly apart of the problem. this country has free speech, so the media will never be silenced, but it's also defiantly part of the problem.

Even if the left manages to ban handguns and such, it would nearly start a civil war to ban hunting rifles.

About online interaction. This is not scializing inn a healthy way. have your heard the way kids interact on these things. "Aaakkkk shoot him in ****in balls...shoot him in the ******* balls.....yeah!!! yes then rape his sister. " just one line that sticks in my head while playing ghost recon myself 7 or 8 years ago.

About bullying. Autistic and sensitive kids get torn apart in school. These are the kids that end up being these guys. There should be groups set up in schools to brings these kids into the fold. Kindness and the serious implications of ones affect on another should be an important revisited subject.

There is no clear answer.

1) It's obviously not the availability of guns, other countries have availability but not nearly the amount of rampages. And gun ownership is cultural staple in the us, it's not going anywhere.

2) we cant censor the media or games.

3) bully's will bully no matter what

I think we have a multifaceted problem here. We have a rich country whose parents are to busy, stressed, and distant to actually do things with their kids and spoil them with whatever they want, mixed with overly medicated, divorced troubled familys, a developing culture of sensationalized violence, and god knows the amount of pesticides and chemicals in our systems. Throw firearms in the mix, and I think we have a number of recipes for explosive situations.

We will continue to see these things happen again. As the next generation slides into their teens and these incidents immortalized whatch out America. I suspect there are thoughts churning in some of these minds as we speak, and they are receiving plenty of training from our lovely and ever more sophisticated 1st person shooter games.

I will give up my guns whenever everybody else does. It will be a Mexican standoff of emense proportions.

I have tried to talk my wife into moving, but she won't have it. But Mabey if it keeps happening she will. Australia, Canada, we might be headed your way. I'd love to live in Australia, and yes I would leave my weapons behind if that is the rule there.

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"Dr. Ding, the Hong Kong sociologist, said mainland China schools he has visited in the past two years have beefed up security in the wake of the knife attacks.

"I think these kind of attacks become more frequent in many countries, not just China and U.S., because of a number of different factors," Ding said. "Number one is the increased pressure for individuals. Today's world is very different from the world we saw 50 years ago ... individuals in their daily life face much more uncertainty, risk, financial pressure and competition."

"The second thing is we live in a global village now, where the spread of information -- especially bad news -- is so instantaneous," said Ding, leading to more copycat crimes across the globe.

"I don't think we should limit the free press ... but people are watching this, they are learning from these kind of attacks. They are becoming more and more organized, better planned -- and that is horrible." "

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/15/world/asia/china-us-school-attack/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

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Don't be surprised if this infection starts showing up in other country's even with gun prohibition. The united states tends to export its culture. Hang on folks the next 20 years is going to be a wild ride.

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ban video games but not guns? lmfao at that, violent games do not make killers. If that were the case

there would be alot more teenagers running around killing people because COD,Grand theft auto and

Assasain Greed are part of all gamers collections.Millions of these games have been sold and continue to be

and so do guns. Which really do youtkink would have more impact, banning games or guns?

That's just the point. There ARE a lot more teenagers and young adults doing just this. Sure out if 300 million people it's a fairly low occurrence put it is increasing.

A hypothetical experiment. Take a large group of teenage boys. 1 group sit them down train them on weapons. Teach them how to respect the weapon, use it properly, and be educated. The other group sit them down in front of grand theft auto and let them chop hookers up with macheties all they want. Now give them all access to guns. Which ones will you not turn your back on?

Mabey create a third group that did both... Yikes!!!

My kids will be in the 1st group.

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I want to open a discussion about the violence against children at school in America. it is promted with recent events but it's not just one event it's many.

I propose

1) We identify autistic spectrum, sensitive, and vulnerable kids early on and give them incredible support against bullying and self esteem issues.

We also need to screen for bullies to also give them the support they need.

2) we stop sensationalizing these incidents. No media coverage, no talk shows, movies, or books. The name of the perpetrator should never be mentioned, and his life should never be scrutinized.

The media should have policies to not identifiy killers but the need for society to have something tangible to blame is greater.

I agree with your view but know this won't happen.

The information should be allowed for educational purposes, university level, but it should not be made into media products for mass consumption.

3) We need to end the production of "games" that glorify violence. Grand theft auto...... Really?. The majority of these crimes are committed by young people between the ages of 16--26, most of them were heavy into video games. I'm not against gameing totally, but these games are incredibly rediculouse and fuel violant fantasies while isolating the child from interaction with others. Not to mention there are child psychologists and formulas designed to addict young people.

Show me the science.

If video games can be linked, then assemble a panel of experts to best decide what type of programs are needed, then tax these video games to allow for the recommended programs to be put into place.

4) I deplore gun control. I feel everyone should have a right to own own them. But, I would not mind makeing gun ownership a long and tedious process. Im workIng on my concealed weapons permit, and after Friday my wife will be joining me. There is a lengthy course and several interviews. I will never vote for anything limiting citizens to own guns, but I would vote for an elevated level of awareness and training. It should be an honer and hard won prize to be an owner of dangerous weapons. Sure criminals will just get them illegally. I understand that. It would be up to the citizen to take the process seriously and do it if they take self defense with weapons seriously.

Show me the science, again. If the current attitude toward and availability of guns are proven to have a connection to the rise of mass shootings then the latter needs to be regulated as well, taxes could go back into programs to change the attitude.

Better mental health screening should be required for CHLs; etc.

5) It should be a felony if Somone who has not gone through the above sugestion has access to your weapons and comits a crime.

The focus should be less on punishing people. Provision of information should register higher on our list of concerns. One is reactive, the other proactive.

just some suggestions. My number 2 suggestion is the most important one. The media should not be able to sensationalize this. I don't know how to do that without censorship which is a slippery slope, but the media could come together and all agree, law enforcement could take vows of silence and teach survivors why they must be quite..... I don't know. But make no mistake, these incidents have become a sick fad.

What do you think?

I agree, the sensationalism needs to end. People are also more interested in pushing their own agenda (if they support gun control they are now using this as a platform to bullhorn their ideas; or a time to show how sad they are and announce it to the world, please everyone is suffering this isn't about you and your chance to promote your cynicism of humanity instead of solutions so bravo for this thread that actually attempts to think about solutions) than actually respecting the victims in either case.

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Hard to stop people killing one another when killing one another is played out in games and watched on screens as entertainment and taught to our children as a virtue ....when it's done for the "right" reasons. It goes back to us being hunters for survival and keeping animals for food , i suppose? ...we still keep animals for slaughter... we just pay others to do it for us now.

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It's a fantasy to think that if Somone who wants to cause carnage won't figure out some other way to do it. Most of the perpetrators are highly intelligent. It's only a hop skip and a jump on the Internet to make IEDs. Not to mention a simple knife or even a baseball bat. A teenager with a knife can do quite a bit of damage, yet we don't see bloody attacks on children from teenagers with knives across the globe. No, the availability of guns is a very small problem. If someone smart wants to find them, they will, or they will improvise. There is something wrong with culture here. The games are not as docile as people think. They are not the same kind of games they were 20 years ago. I expected resistance to that idea... But we have to look at hard facts here. A common thread between all of the perpetrators is their age and I'd bet a million dollars all of them spent a lot of time gaming.

I think its fantasy to think someone can cause the same amount of damage using a knife or baseball bat. We dont see them using baseball bats or knives to take as many lives that were lost the other day because they are using what is made for killing. These guns are made for killing people. Bats and knives are not.

In regards to the games.. they are pretty much the same as they were 20 years ago. Doom was realised in 1993 and Wolfenstein 3d was just before that(1992), then Quake came out and its kinda gone from there. The only real difference over time are the graphics. Before first person shooters(decent 3d ones) we had games like Commando on the C64 etc.. So the game play hasnt changed much over time but the graphics have. And before video games kids played cops and robbers with toy guns.

Anyway saying that you would bet all of them play video games and to look at the facts.. fact is millions play these games and dont do these types of crimes. Another fact is.. when they do... they use guns... And a fact in this latest case(as far as I've read anyway)is that this latest kid was trained in the use of firearms. His mother had a collection of firearms and he was trained in how to use them.

About online interaction. This is not scializing inn a healthy way. have your heard the way kids interact on these things. "Aaakkkk shoot him in ****in balls...shoot him in the ******* balls.....yeah!!! yes then rape his sister. " just one line that sticks in my head while playing ghost recon myself 7 or 8 years ago.

I've been playing online games since they pretty much began and I know well how some kids act. Some do speak pretty horrible but not all of them and over time its actually been getting better. They have more rules now about abuse and racism and although some still break rules, many dont. Online interaction can be healthy but abusing people online obviously isnt. So this has been slowly getting better and I think in time it will only continue to get better as bullying online becomes more of an issue.

We will continue to see these things happen again. As the next generation slides into their teens and these incidents immortalized whatch out America. I suspect there are thoughts churning in some of these minds as we speak, and they are receiving plenty of training from our lovely and ever more sophisticated 1st person shooter games.

In this latest case the kid was trained to use guns by his mother.. He didnt need first person shooters and they havent said anything yet about if he played them or not(not that I'm aware of anyway). But they have spoken about his mothers guns and that she taught him. So the sophisticated training(in this case anyway)was not from first person shooters but from a parent who took him to a gun range and kept guns at home...

A hypothetical experiment. Take a large group of teenage boys. 1 group sit them down train them on weapons. Teach them how to respect the weapon, use it properly, and be educated. The other group sit them down in front of grand theft auto and let them chop hookers up with macheties all they want. Now give them all access to guns. Which ones will you not turn your back on?

Mabey create a third group that did both... Yikes!!!

My kids will be in the 1st group.

I wouldnt give any of them access to guns in the first place. Why do they need them??.. And I would be more afraid of the trained ones, like this kid was.

America just has such a gun culture that this is what happens. If they arnt spree killing each other they are deaths from little kids grabbing daddies pistol and shooting their sister. Or like another little kid I remember who went to a gun show and was allowed to fire an uzi and ended up killing himself in the process.

http://www.msnbc.msn...-self-gun-show/

You guys remember that one? Still makes me sad to think of that little kid.

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I think its fantasy to think someone can cause the same amount of damage using a knife or baseball bat. We dont see them using baseball bats or knives to take as many lives that were lost the other day because they are using what is made for killing. These guns are made for killing people. Bats and knives are not.

In regards to the games.. they are pretty much the same as they were 20 years ago. Doom was realised in 1993 and Wolfenstein 3d was just before that(1992), then Quake came out and its kinda gone from there. The only real difference over time are the graphics. Before first person shooters(decent 3d ones) we had games like Commando on the C64 etc.. So the game play hasnt changed much over time but the graphics have. And before video games kids played cops and robbers with toy guns.

Anyway saying that you would bet all of them play video games and to look at the facts.. fact is millions play these games and dont do these types of crimes. Another fact is.. when they do... they use guns... And a fact in this latest case(as far as I've read anyway)is that this latest kid was trained in the use of firearms. His mother had a collection of firearms and he was trained in how to use them.

I've been playing online games since they pretty much began and I know well how some kids act. Some do speak pretty horrible but not all of them and over time its actually been getting better. They have more rules now about abuse and racism and although some still break rules, many dont. Online interaction can be healthy but abusing people online obviously isnt. So this has been slowly getting better and I think in time it will only continue to get better as bullying online becomes more of an issue.

In this latest case the kid was trained to use guns by his mother.. He didnt need first person shooters and they havent said anything yet about if he played them or not(not that I'm aware of anyway). But they have spoken about his mothers guns and that she taught him. So the sophisticated training(in this case anyway)was not from first person shooters but from a parent who took him to a gun range and kept guns at home...

I wouldnt give any of them access to guns in the first place. Why do they need them??.. And I would be more afraid of the trained ones, like this kid was.

America just has such a gun culture that this is what happens. If they arnt spree killing each other they are deaths from little kids grabbing daddies pistol and shooting their sister. Or like another little kid I remember who went to a gun show and was allowed to fire an uzi and ended up killing himself in the process.

http://www.msnbc.msn...-self-gun-show/

You guys remember that one? Still makes me sad to think of that little kid.

All good points. By the way the last one was trained. But he also probably was on the autistic spectrum.

Accidents are accidents

Are we going to outlaw moter vehicles, swimming pools, and boating aswell? These things contribute far more to the death of children than firearms.

http://extranosalley.com/?p=36321

Just because millions of teens play violent games dosnt mean that there is not a corolation, but I would leave it up to the scientists. Millions of people own fire arms but rampages only happen now and then also. One is to many of course.

But there has to be some sort of psychological trend or culture that is at play here. As I mentioned there are other places with guns and games but these things don't seem to happen.

Any ideas anyone?

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How about this instead, tell America to fix it's ******* laws so that not just any **** can walk around with a gun. Just because people have a licence doesn't mean they're going to be careful.

Oh and it'll never really stop either, be prepared for this to happen continuously in the future.

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How about this instead, tell America to fix it's ******* laws so that not just any **** can walk around with a gun. Just because people have a licence doesn't mean they're going to be careful.

Oh and it'll never really stop either, be prepared for this to happen continuously in the future.

It's highly illegal to walk around with guns in most places. There are strict laws for travel. haveing a law dosnt stop people from breaking it.

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I want to open a discussion about the violence against children at school in America. it is promted with recent events but it's not just one event it's many.

I propose

2) we stop sensationalizing these incidents. No media coverage, no talk shows, movies, or books. The name of the perpetrator should never be mentioned, and his life should never be scrutinized.

I disagree with this one, but I'm kind of in two minds as to what you mean by this.. but I read "No media coverage" as sweeping events under the carpet and denying the public their right to know wtf is going on in their society. These kind of incidents don't need sensationalising for sure.. They are just awefull and hiddious crimes that NEED to be covered in depth and scutinised so that the Public have a better picture of these kind of events, how they unfold, why they occur.. Overall the Media Coverage NEEDS to factual.. As I'm not in america perhaps I'm missing some point here as I've not seen much coverage from american media. I kind of 1/2 agree with the talk shows, movies, books part, as this is usually just an excuse for making a profit from other peoples misery.

The name of the perpetrator should never be mentioned, (If said mentions of his identity threatens the life or wellbeing of his family) But ultimately his life should be scrutinized in depth and in full public view so as people can learn to identify the precursers, behavioral patterns and warning signs that indicate that certain people need profesional help, support or locking up before they commit such evil acts..

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