Tornado Alley (PROG)

[ordinarydude]

"I would bet soup to nuts that JARED LOUGHNER played violent video games daily!"

Probably.

"... When is Congress going to BAN games that warp minds?"

...about the same time they'll ban music containing explicit lyrics.

"...Instead of a tool that has been around for 400 years?"

Such as a hammer, or a mallet, or a gun.....

"Ever heard of a school shooting before the 90's?"

Yes, I most certainly have.

"...How about during the 1950's when guns were laying on kitchen tables as common as a shovel?"

1. Back then parents used common sense and secured their firearms properly.

2. Since guns weren't readily accessible like they are today, folks used other "tools" at their disposal...such as baseball bats, billy clubs, and switchblades...to name a few.

"...The 90's is when psychotropic drugs/violent video games were introduced in mass quantities to children."

No, that trend actually begain in the 1980's. Ever play Frogger? Joust? Galaga? Gauntlet? Those games have roots in the 1980's.

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot! Liberals LOVE warping minds so that the government has an excuse to CONTROL people. A dysfunctional society opens the door for the government to say “well you people cannot control yourselves, so we will do it for you”… Sound familiar in history? Stalin, Mao, Hitler, maybe..."

1. Liberals (and conservatives) don't warp minds, people do.

2. The door to totalitarianism is opened when our rights are repealed right before our very eyes in lieu of safety, security and sensationalism.

3. Hitler didn't like those pesky Bolsheviks in Russia, rb1100. The purpose of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was to keep the larger enemy at bay while the Nazies were busy raping, killing and torturing people in Poland.

Ordinary