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Guns Don't Kill People, the Mentally Ill Do

HistoryLover Wrote: Jan 17, 2013 10:12 AM
Guns are not the problem. The main stream media, movies and TV showing relentless violence, murders and mayhem and even glorifying it are the problem. And also include violent video games and rap music. People seeing this continuously from an early age are inspired to commit these acts. Common sense should tell us this and it is a no brainer. Then when mentally ill people see this violence and play the games you have you have an even higher probability of violence from them. I blame Hollywood and the media for the violence and murders occurring more frequently in lock step with the increase of it in movies, TV, video games and rap. . What we need is outright censorship of violence in the movies and TV.

Seung-Hui Cho, who committed the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, had been diagnosed with severe anxiety disorder as a child and placed under treatment.

But Virginia Tech was prohibited from being told about Cho's mental health problems because of federal privacy laws.

At college, Cho engaged in behavior even more bizarre than the average college student. He stalked three women and, at one point, went totally silent, refusing to speak even to his roommates. He was involuntarily committed to a mental institution for one night and then unaccountably unleashed on the public, whereupon he proceeded to engage in...

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