School Shootings, Worekplace Violence and Guns

[TheEggman]

I went to school in a different time, the late 1950′s and 1960′s. It was a rural area, and most people in the area had guns.

Thnks to the bullies I dreaded every school day morning as a death-row prisoner must look at their last day on Earth, except I knew I’d have to repeat it tomorrow.

Like many other kids in my school, I had easy access to guns.

If any kid ever had motive, means and opportunity to blow away a teacher or classmate, I did.

See: http://EggClectic.com/1/misc/guns-viol

[Paliden]

Yea but you and I did not have all sorts of video games, tv shows and movies showing you and training you to be a local terrorist.
BUT that has nothing to do with the problem, yea right keep thing that

[dorminWS]

Just read your post on the link above. Looks like we have a lot in common.

[zerodown1]

We have always had bullies,when I was in school which was last century,I had my own way of dealing with them like everyone else. The second it started you had to hit first and hit hard. And like the cowards they are, they would look for a softer target. Our generation learned this lesson. You take care of yourself, don't look for someone else to do it for you.

[thekinetic]

It's not the tv or movies or video games teaching kids it either I had access to guns growing up and played and watched every violent thing imaginable. It's called these kids today have no one to teach them not to be a little snot nosed psychopaths.

And I did have bullies but they tapered off in the sixth grade when I knocked one off his feet with a single punch. Though I did help a friend with one in high school, man I stared at that boy the whole way home on that bus. Never seen a guy that big run that fast in my life!

No the problem with kids today is deffinatly bad parenting or lack there of. But no one wants to say that, no no!

[dorminWS]

I think maybe the OP pretty much nailed it when he said that we knew the difference between fantasy & reality and many of today's brats apparently do not. I'd say the relatively recent advent of such realistic "virtual reality" (a perverse contradiction in terms, if you think about it) has greatly exacerbated this problem.

[TheEggman]

Yea but you and I did not have all sorts of video games, tv shows and movies showing you and training you to be a local terrorist.
BUT that has nothing to do with the problem, yea right keep thing that

For THAT I refer you to: http://seggleston.com/1/misc/v-video-games



Also a Topic in this forum.

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[TheEggman]

We have always had bullies,when I was in school which was last century,I had my own way of dealing with them like everyone else. The second it started you had to hit first and hit hard. And like the cowards they are, they would look for a softer target. Our generation learned this lesson. You take care of yourself, don't look for someone else to do it for you.

(From the article)

I eventually (11th. Grade) self-mediated a bullying situation by the forcible application of a large rock to the side of the aforementioned bully’s head.

One teacher’s reaction to that event …?
“I wondered how long you were going to keep taking that crap.”

And that was the end of it. No one was suspended, no one was punished and no one was seriously injured anywhere other than in their pride. As a bonus, I found a sense of self-confidence, the bully learned that everyone has their limits, and all was well without ‘government or legal intervention.’

[KaosDad]

Focusing on the gun is easy. Looking at the real, underlying problems is hard and would run the risk of damaging the progressive funding base that is the entertainment industry. I would also require individuals to take responsibility *GASP*!!!!

[rlbellco72]

I would also require individuals to take responsibility *GASP*!!!!

Why that's insane! Individuals taking responsibilty. Must be a new concept.

[VACoastie]

I didn't go to school eons qgo, but it's probably my parents old school mentality and my country raising. I had a bully problem back in school in 7th grade. I got in his face, cornered him like he would everyone else and I choked him to within an inch of his life. He cried. Boy, did he cry. I felt bad for him but he learned his lesson, and to this day he reminds me of it.

I also grew up in the Tech generation. I had my first PC, a Sony VAIO with 128 mb RAM at 9. Chat rooms n such. Then the Sega Saturn, Sega Genesis, N64, Playstation. I played Laura Croft,that weird Dinosaur game thst you killed Dinos (I think it'a actually called Dinos), Grand Theft Auto, Silent Hill... Etc. It's called parents. It's called care. It's called teaching. I played a ton of games, but my parents also locked me outta the house when/if I was gaming too much.

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