>>>>>>>>http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3045574
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>>>>>>>Our TV's says 34?
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>>>>>>>If Michael Moore and your movies says true, your system helps people have gun easly. You should change this.
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>>>>>>Your perception is not correct. To obtain a gun legally, you have to be over 18 and go through a background check, and you have to license the gun. There isn't much we can do about people obtaining guns illegally, just as there isn't much we can do to prevent the sales of drugs.
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>>>>>>What would you recommend we do?
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>>>>>I recommend a small change in cultural outlook.
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>>>>>For example, maybe in movies, tv and games, shooting and killing could be treated as a 2nd resort instead of first?
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>>>>>Then, when killings like this happen, maybe the news media could stop turning these creatures into cult heros, and simply label them the cowards and garbage of society that they are without giving them pages upon pages of space for weeks on end.
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>>>>It is encouraging to see that you don't like Hollywood and media liberal elite, but still how you going to do it? Do you mean censorship?
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>>>I realise that it's just a pipe-dream, but it would require a wholesale change in cultural attitude. It's not easy, but it can happen. There was a time when games didn't have ratings on them, but enough people became vocal enough about it that now they do. Little steps one at a time. Bottom line is that people have to want the changes. As long as people are satisfied with the status quo, as it appears that so many gun owners are, then little will ever change.
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>>Imho, these little changes move people to the opposite direction. Basically, TV started the process of making robotic idiots and Web/PC games finishing it.
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>I watched a lot of TV and played a lot of video games growing up, and I am not a robotic idiot. In fact, I could argue that video games teach creativity, problem solving, and patience. I played some violent video games too, but I always knew it was a fantasy world that was not reality. Sure, I have imagined beating certain jerks to a pulp with a baseball bat ala some video games, but I knew that is not how society worked.
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>Video games aren't the problem... lack of parenting is. Don't ban TV or video games... punish parents who don't teach their children differently!

I remember some years ago I let my 4 YO daughter sit with me and play "Doom". When I took her away from the 'puter she bawled the house down for ages, crying over and over again, "I WANT TO PLAY THE KILLING GAME!" It was hilarious. She's on remand for manslaughter now. Just kidding - she's only 11 and prefers to play on the Bratz website (I don't know which is worse!) :-)