NRA finally meets its match: Why Richard Martinez should have them shaking

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82. Oh, absolutely. And the media is a show, a circus. We should all know better than

to give it the credibility we do, but perhaps we prefer being fooled to living in our painful reality, or taking on the challenge to change it.

“Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime. What children see on the screen is violence as an almost casual commonplace of daily living. Violence becomes the fundamental principle of society, the natural law of humanity. Killing is as common as taking a walk, a gun more natural than an umbrella. Children learn to take pride in force and violence and to feel ashamed of ordinary sympathy. They are encouraged to forget that people have feelings.”

Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham

I'm not blaming it on any media by itself because most of us see that stuff and don't turn all Rambo on strangers. There are likely several factors, and included in that is an impaired thinking, or perhaps even a pathology.

There are too many loose guns, but I grew up in homes where guns were piled in the corner, and it hasn't been until the last few years that a younger and perhaps more fearful generation has started picking them up and killing multiple total strangers with such frequency. We should also not ignore that this kind of stuff has been happening in neighborhoods with low incomes, especially where there people of color, for some time, yet it seems that unless white kids get gunned down nobody gets all that upset. So perhaps there is an element of racism as well, which perhaps explains the fear which drives the accumulation of guns in the first place. We start to stray from his responsibility, but if he really was sick those who must solve this HAVE to look elsewhere it would seem.

Since he is gone we may never really know why it went this way, but here is a kid who, perhaps, really wasn't shown the love and attention one would think. On the other hand, by virtue of profits on movies, one of which glorified teenagers murdering each other for the entertainment of the 1%, he was kept in BMWs, guns, and pizza.

What more could a kid want?

What gets me the most is that we ignore the very real needs of people who need medical assistance for their heads. There are huge numbers of mentally impaired people in prison, where we seem to prefer them instead of treatment.

And instead of paying them to help us solve these problems, we pay psychologists to learn how to more effectively torture other human beings...

"Dr. Bruce Jessen, a senior military psychologist with offices in Spokane, had a key role in expanding the controversial use of torture against enemy combatants, according to a report released Thursday by U.S. Sens. Carl Levin and John McCain, ranking members of the Senate Armed Services Committee."

Here.

No wonder we have mass killings.