So yesterday you should have answered a question on why people blame videogames and music for violent crimes...well as some of you know a violent crime was commited at a mall, the 19 year old gunman entered a mall and killed 8 people and injured 2 then killing himself before police could get to him.
Now what is your opinion on why he went and killed these innocent people?
Friday, December 7, 2007
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To try and 'beat' the score of the gunman at Virginia Tech. I'm totally serious, by the way. The mall gunman posted on a forum that that was exactly what he intended to do.
Wow. Is that true?
For the first time in my life, I am truly frightened by your generation.
-Ned-
Seriously though, I don't think blaming video games and music solves anything. All it does is provide a convenient excuse for those who failed to do their jobs as educators, friends, parents, doctors, social workers, etc. On the other hand, at what point should we stop looking for people and conditions to blame and start focusing on perpetrator of the crime? I don't know. All this stuff depresses me.
-Ned-
@DJ Scythe: That is true (I've seen screen caps of the original thread, made a couple hours before this event took place.) but that apparently wasn't his only motivation. He was apparently bullied at school, and decided, instead of just taking his own life, he would kill others first. It's sad though, that one of the worst gun crimes we've had could be the motivator for more to come. Who knows? Maybe he was just some psycho and would've done this regardless of what happened at VTech. But maybe there's more out there that will do this. should we be afraid? Maybe. Should we do something to prevent this? of course, but what? How do we make sure that this mass murder/suicide trend doesn't continue? Would banning violent video games and music be the best idea? Who knows, it could stop us from being so desensitized to violence, though I think the gunman would've had to have known the severity of what he had done if he offed himself before the police could apprehend him. But maybe not being able to blow off someone's head in Unreal Tournament could motivate someone else to do it in real life. It's scary to think that people are willing to do things like this, and that maybe there's nothing anyone can do about that. If he truly thought he was going out "in style" would any thing change that? Whos is really to blame? It seems the gunman is always portrayed as the victim, but when it comes down to it, would teachers, parents, counselors, etc. be able to truly stop this from happening? Isn't the gunman himself the only person who could've truly prevented this?
well being that this post is so old right now I'm wondering if anyone will even read this massive block of text, but if you happen to be pathetic enough to click this old thread (like I was before I wrote this) then think about that. We are always trying to blame whoever we can, yet we always neglect to blame the true culprit.
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