SuicidalSteve
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So The Sun has only gone and done it haven't they
So The Sun has only gone and done it haven't they
Care to substantiate this claim? I'd like to take a look at those studies. My hunch is that 'aggressive behavior' is poorly defined and that the young male demographic, which tends to commit more violent crime, also happens to be the same demographic that most often plays violent video games.
It references quite a few papers, one of which is a survey of 130 something other papers. Do I need to go find links to the referenced papers for you, or do you think you can handle that by yourself?
You think all 130 of these apparently scientific, peer-reviewed papers are simply vague assertions with a set agenda that don't list how the tests were conducted?
Oh I get it, you want ME to go read every single one of those papers and then do the analysis for you. Well here's a news flash: I wasn't the one that requested them. And I don't imagine anyone else is going to do your work for you either. If you want studies that have looked at this problem, then go find the papers referenced above and read them yourself.
For all you know they could be 130 well conducted experiments that you apparently just don't feel like reading. Not my problem.
So The Sun has only gone and done it haven't they
Yeah. It's gut wrenching.Just read through the details of the shooting on Wikipedia.
Every single employee at that school is a fucking hero.
You suggested we don't feel the same way you do because our reasoning has been undermined by our enjoyment of games. You can't substantiate that claim without citing something other than your opinion. Frankly it's a bit shitty to dismiss objections to how you feel by telling us we're just too into games to know what we're talking about.
Feel free to speculate to your hearts content, but don't try to call out others without something to back you up.
Thanks for this Never knew/noticed that they could be this detailed.
This is going around my facebook feed right now. Are these people for real? Seriously?
Reports of more than one gunman? Obviously because panicked people hearing a ton of gunshots should be trusted with totally accurate recall of how people were firing.
Dumb. This has to do with inner city drug violence (mostly due to 80s crack), not suburban white boy violence.
Been getting a few emails with our local school district in response to all this. Something I found interesting was this sort of placement with schools here:
"All District schools are equipped with card access technology, security cameras and lockdown and incident command systems, along with many other precautions and procedures. All employees are required to wear District ID badges and are trained to intervene with any visitor not wearing proper identification. In addition, students and staff participate with first responders in monthly drills to prepare for a variety of emergencies. In the case of a school emergency, our local police and fire professionals are prepared to respond."
To me, this makes the schooling procedures here sound safe and on point. Though I can't really speak as a whole with this because my oldest goes to a special needs school and my youngest isn't even 2 yet. It just has me curious how the CT schools are handled.
Same here. My kids go to public school and while its good they have procedures in place how would that prevent what happened in CT? The guys shot through the front doors. I don't blame the schools. How can you prepare for something like this.
When I pick up my kids now there's an aide that has to check your I'd before they let you in. Is that aide qualified to stop someone like this wacko? It's a tough situation with no clear answer.
lol wow. you guys have some interesting friends. I don't think i'd see this if it wasn't for gaf.This is going around my facebook feed right now. Are these people for real? Seriously?
Reports of more than one gunman? Obviously because panicked people hearing a ton of gunshots should be trusted with totally accurate recall of how people were firing.
80's crack in 1972?
Also, just to be clear, are you suggesting video games have been and still are restricted to white kids in the suburbs?
Did I say only crack?
Violent crime has been the hallmark of run down parts of large cities. More employment and economic expansion (recovering from the Reagan years) in the late nighties has helped those that used to turn to crime.
Males 8-18 are a key demographic for video games and I'm guessing having a family with enough income to afford all this equipment and games has been biased to the burbs, which is whiter. Now that TVs, consoles and games are all relatively cheaper the influence is all over.
Now video games are readily accessible and more graphic than ever. Should keep child psychologist busy for a while.
MS Flight Simulator and others are pretty damn detailed in how they handle things.
Lockheed Martin use it as the base for one of their products: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_Prepar3D
This is going around my facebook feed right now. Are these people for real? Seriously?
Reports of more than one gunman? Obviously because panicked people hearing a ton of gunshots should be trusted with totally accurate recall of how people were firing.
This is going around my facebook feed right now. Are these people for real? Seriously?
Reports of more than one gunman? Obviously because panicked people hearing a ton of gunshots should be trusted with totally accurate recall of how people were firing.
Too many coincidences when there's no such thing as a coincidence.
This is going around my facebook feed right now. Are these people for real? Seriously?
Reports of more than one gunman? Obviously because panicked people hearing a ton of gunshots should be trusted with totally accurate recall of how people were firing.
So i had this idea today regarding mental health care. What if kids were required to have a free psych eval once a year? At schools they could just send someone out once a year and do the whole school at once. For homeschoolers they would just go to their houses. Hit every kid from 5-18 once a year, no opt-out.
Anyone who comes up at risk can be monitored more closely, especially with regards to guns in the household.
The problem is alot of parents miss all the warning signs and dont get help for their kids even though they need it, and the problems arent evident to anyone else
I ran this by some of my ultra-conservative friends earlier and it sounded like a great idea to them, and i would also be willing to forego most gun control restrictions if something like this were in place too.
This is going around my facebook feed right now. Are these people for real? Seriously?
Reports of more than one gunman? Obviously because panicked people hearing a ton of gunshots should be trusted with totally accurate recall of how people were firing.
Don't ever go to GLP they have conspiracy threads on how there were 2-3 shooters and even the admins take it seriously.
So i had this idea today regarding mental health care. What if kids were required to have a free psych eval once a year? At schools they could just send someone out once a year and do the whole school at once. For homeschoolers they would just go to their houses. Hit every kid from 5-18 once a year, no opt-out.
Anyone who comes up at risk can be monitored more closely, especially with regards to guns in the household.
The problem is alot of parents miss all the warning signs and dont get help for their kids even though they need it, and the problems arent evident to anyone else
I ran this by some of my ultra-conservative friends earlier and it sounded like a great idea to them, and i would also be willing to forego most gun control restrictions if something like this were in place too.
Psych evals aren't like those hearing tests you got back in school though. It's not something you do in an hour en masse. Even with a small school of, say, 300, you'd need maybe 50 psychologists to get it done in a reasonable amount of time, maybe 30-90 day turnaround for each person. Where I live there's a waiting list to even get evaluated if you are a criminal defendant. Then there's the actual eval process. After that it might be 2-3 months just to get a report back from the psychologist.
So i had this idea today regarding mental health care. What if kids were required to have a free psych eval once a year? At schools they could just send someone out once a year and do the whole school at once. For homeschoolers they would just go to their houses. Hit every kid from 5-18 once a year, no opt-out.
You could put just about anything on this graph exactly like this and claim it is the reason for the drop....asinine graph
I don't see anywhere it's claiming that's the reason for the drop.
It appears it's trying to portray exactly that being that the release of the first uber popular violent video game happens at the exact highest peak and the drop increases exponentially from there.
It appears it's trying to portray exactly that being that the release of the first uber popular violent video game happens at the exact highest peak and the drop increases exponentially from there.
It appears it's trying to portray exactly that being that the release of the first uber popular violent video game happens at the exact highest peak and the drop increases exponentially from there.
I took it as saying it didn't increase it.