Week of the nutjobs?

All of the publicity brings them out. Maybe we should ban the press instead of guns.

Tom

 

Its going to get worse as more and more people lose jobs and get desperate.

 

Germany deaths are now up to 16 if you include the gunner.
BBC NEWS | Europe | German school gunman 'kills 15'

A true nutjob for sure.

 

Yep, ban free speech not guns?

 

That teen in Germany, I'd like to know if he played violent video games. It seems that we are desensitizing young people to violence

Perhaps that why young people make such good "soldiers" in Winnipeg street gangs

 

That's horrible for all of the people who were shot because they were unarmed.

 

That was my thought. I'm glad we agree.

Tom

 

Well, that's TWO people (and a special overseas citation) the NRA will award Gold Medals to for exercising their right to bear arms.

 

Guns really are not trendy. We have to go back to chopping heads off and desecrating the corpus. Like this nut did last summer

CTV.ca | Vince Li not criminally responsible for beheading

I wonder how soon this kook will be walking the streets again?

 

Kinda ironic how my comment about violent video games went over like a brick s*** house

 

No, I think you may have a point there. Except that brick shithouses don't go over well at all, being so much more difficult to huff and puff and blow down than wooden ones. Oh wait, that was your point about your point.

Must be a full moon.

 

When I was driving cabs full time, we all used to comment that the full moon would always bring out the weirdos - it was amazing the number of unusual people who be out on full moon nights. Maybe you have something there Hyo.

And jayman - totally agree. I have seen a number of commentaries about the fact that kids feel violence is just a normal way of life, all because of the games. Trouble is, we would get an equal number saying the opposite.

 

I don't buy the video game thing. When I was a kid we ran around shooting each other with toy guns but I haven't shot anyone yet and neither have any of my childhood friends.

I agree it's that free press thing.

 

Hey, even I played with toy guns, and I still watch where I walk so I don't step on any bugs. The violence and realism in 'modern' video games is light years removed from squirt guns.

 

Probably because Germany has some of the toughest gun laws in Europe.

Wildkow

 

Stev0 while people aren't even over the shock of having family and friends murdered that your comment is funny? What an nice person.

Wildkow

 

Um, yeah, I think that was my point. Now you have me all confused

 

When I was a kid, we also played with little toy guns, played Cowboys and Indians, etc (We always took turns, so not one person was the Cowboy all the time)

We also knew our toy guns were toys, and we would never ever have dreamed of pointing a real gun to "play." For that matter, we would never have dreamed of actually hurting another person

There were always guns in the house. I was taught at a very young age that guns are serious stuff, that they are designed to kill, not play with. Of course, my Dad was in the Marines in Korea, so he had also had plenty of instruction on proper firearms handling. My Dad also left his keys in the car parked outside, and we never locked the door for the house. This was Southern Utah in the early and mid 1970's

Now, despite the strict gun (Civilian) control laws in Canada, we have 12-14 year olds packing handguns in their street gangs. People here have learned to fear kids, as if you actually do try to discipline a kid or defend yourself, all the do-gooder Social Workers and retard lawyers will come down on your nice person

Or, like the case of Vince Li, a person can run completely monkeys***, chop the head off an innocent person, desecrate the corpus (The nut actually ate some of the body parts, including the heart), and as a society we will tell that nut "there there, it wasn't your fault. You're just as much a victim as that poor soul you didn't mean to eat"

Now, this really can't be happening, because according to Michael Moore's "fact filled" documentary "Bowling for Columbine" - here in Canada you can buy a handgun at a Wal Mart, including the ammo. That in places like Windsor, nobody remembers the last time there was a homicide

Hint: Handgun sales have been restricted here for a long time now. You absolutely can NOT buy a handgun at a wally world. Handgun sales are approved by the police. Ammo sales requires a Possession And Acquisition Certificate. Windsor absolutely has a homicide rate, though not as bad as Winnipeg does.

Yet despite all this overt government control, including the Long Arms Registry, we have a pretty serious problem with gangs, grow ops, street violence, and "hidden" crime (People no longer report theft under $5,000, most car theft, uttering threats, vandalism, as the police no longer even respond to such events)

So if things are so much "better" now, why do I need a monitored alarm system, a wary eye when out at night, and why am I expected to give smart nice person teenagers a wide berth on the street?

 

Do you think video games caused the changes?