Pop culture has nothing to do with it. I listened to gangster rap in elementary school, killed literally 1000's of people in grand theft auto for PlayStation in high school. Watched violent movies by myself since I was 6. I've never even been in a fight.
I picked up thousands and thousands of hookers and killed them to get my money back in GTA (it was the thing to do). My parents let me and my brother watch/listen/play anything we wanted all our lives. Both of us are 4 year college grads with 0 legal issues. I've been in a share of scraps, but the media should not be an excuse for people committing things like that.
Get these high school students off of the news. CNN is latching onto them like they are the savior this country needs. They do not know the first thing about what needs to be done to fix the issues with this country.
I wonder how many of these kids would even know what an AR is if they hadn't seen it on thousands of How-t0/ hollywood movies and how to load it etc? I know I wouldn't. Why have them? How about violence against women? How is that cool or entertaining to whats?
Cars kill more people than any gun, should we ban all vehicles!!!!!!!! ITS THE PERSON BEHIND THE GUN OR VEHICLE
So you would back the government bringing every person that made a comment on the internet about killing someone in for questioning and wire tapping and keeping them under surveillance for years? I think the kids blew their chance to make a real by just adding another attack on Trump. Trump will make it harder to buy guns and then what? Go see the new SAW movie?
Do you remember when they started going after high HP cars because nobody should own a 500hp two seater car?
I think all most hear is just ban guns and stick our heads in the dirt and hear nothing else. I think bringing up Trump is well , stupid, because we have been failing for a long time on many fronts. In this case Trump is just holding the bag, it's not fair. My questions that I want answers too 1. When the call came into the FBI about this clown, what is the procedure to check up on him? 2. When a call comes in do we not have a system to automate social media and see what the person is saying online? 3. When a call comes in do we not have automated system or process that is followed to let the local authorities know? 4. If a call comes in, where does the info go on the call? Do we have a CMS(type system) to log the calls and actions taken? If we do have a CMS type system does it not have workflow capability, so if the task sits for X number of days the task gets assigned to a supervisor and keeps going up the chain until dealt with ? 5. How does the FBI deal with epic failings like they appear to have here? We call them Post-postmortems, which is a bad choice for words in this case, but what's being done. I sent the above to President Trump and my congress reps in both houses. I offered to install CRM as I am certified and take the 5 mins to write the above workflows I mentioned, I could even bring his social media comments in(public ones) to the record so it's all in one place. Without changing any laws we can reduce these acts, but we keep our heads in the sand. My fear is we will get laws that are reactionary and just have the same results we have today. We are all at fault, we need not only demand better, but make sure they(government) follows through and have accountability for agency running the background check and checking on threats that are called in. The last two with better procedures and follow up we could have prevented, without banning one gun.
I appreciate you writing the letters and if you've got Trumps ear suggest he gets the Dems off their arse and make hollywood making their millions off of "Violence How-to" videos.
same here, but the only media thats trustworthy is Fox and whatever that other right winged wacko site is
I think pop culture does have a lot to do with it depending on the environment. We have plenty of middle class and upper middle class kids in my county that act like straight thugs for 0 reason other than the crap music they listen to and the culture which they idolize.