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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]We have to do something different because we don't want this to happen again...[/quote]

My point exactly. We have to do something different because--even though it is not going to happen to you or I--we don't want this to happen to anyone.

If we understand this, we're more likely to address it in a reasonable and effective manner--by dramatically increasing Medicaid & other public health initiatives that fund mental health treatment. And by strengthening gun control laws.

As opposed to panicking and doing taking ineffectual measures like arming school security personnel or banning video games.
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I'm the PP you quoted, and I agree with you tremendously... except on the video games.  I've read a few times now that the killer in CT was obsessed with one of those lifelike games (they didn't name it but I'm assuming Call of Duty), and if that is true, we truly truly need to look at the impact of those games.  I've been to a few conferences with workshops on the growing brain and these games, and there is real evidence, real data, real research to show that it has a numbing impact, a disconnecting impact, as well as a glorifying violence impact.

So we do have to include looking at the effects of violent video games in the equation, because there are a lot of cases of youth who do NOT have mental health problems doing some crazy and violent things because they "just wanted to know what it feels like in real life", and yes, they got the ideas from violent video games.[/quote]

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