"Post: What we have is a generation of âyoung folksâ totally desensitized to violence and killing by watching and playing 10,000 hours of violent video games
Reply: Nonsense. Apaches attacked the ranch on âHigh Chaparralâ two or three times a year. Every episode of âGunsmokeâ started with a man being shot. Ever tally the kill count on an ep of âCombatâ or âThe Rat Patrolâ? War movies and westerns were big box office too.
True there were Indian Wars and attacksâŚbut no mass killing of school children by youngstersâŚ
Every episode of Perry Mason and Murder She Wrote saw someone dyingâŚand the perp caught and punished. Usually one âmurderâ per episode. Not 19 or 20 children.
YeahâŚgrowing up for the past 100 years before 1990 or so saw kids playing with cap guns - cowboys and Indians, Westerns, Lone Ranger, etc. No one died in kid playâŚ
Now? Lots of loner kids have zero socialization skills. They donât play together but go home, play games on lineâŚand a lot of those games are violent, dark videos. Shooting aliens is one thingâŚbut half the games are fighting other humans for resourcesâŚ
and of course, TV/movies today have a million rounds of fully automatic weapons fire (where they never seem to run out of ammo) in every movie. Duh!
You can still watch Rat Patrol episodes on re-runs - same for Murder She Wrote and Perry Mason and Bonanza. People die or are injured every episode but the pain is felt. People watch for the âsolving the crimeâ not for the killing.
I doubt most kids do watch. Not enough action per minute of viewing. . Theyâre into video games. watching/posting on Tic-Tok videos⌠imitating what they see. Passing things around. A small percentage are drawn to really violent sites and wind up carrying out their âfantasiesâ.
Heck, kids used to drive to high school with guns on the gun rack of their pickup truck 50 years ago. Go hunting after school and weekends. Millions of them.
Itâs different now. There were no mass school murders in the 1960 with even more kids owning or having access to guns. (oh, and fully automatic weapons were available back then) .
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