Prayers to the families and those affected by this, and the law enforcement and medical people and others dealing with it.
We just had this conversation at work the other day after that mall shooting. My wife had an interesting thought, all of the violence in the video games and movies.
Being "old", I can say "back in the day" we played Army, cowboys and Indians, had John Wayne movies, war movies.
But the graphic scenes of gore, heads, arms being blown off, splatters on the wall, that wasn't part of playing army in the yard or watching the old Western movies. You didn't have slow motion, high definition explosions of bodies, heads, guts.
For the tiny minority of the truly mentally unstable people, if they get into this video game culture, this slasher movie, blast them apart movie, and constantly watch or play them, they become desensitized to horrific death.
Now, if your kids play these games, I'm not saying they will become mass murderers or are unstable. Today was one individual. The mall was a guy dressed like Jason in Friday the 13th. The movie was one dude dressed like the Joker.
It's the 0.001% of individuals who are unstable and then fall into today's world where all of these games, movies, video, YouTube, they can experience death thousands of times vicariously until they cross the line between reality and fantasy.
In my time, we played army in the yard, you pointed a stick or a toy gun at someone and said "Bang!" and they fell over. Thirty seconds later they jumped back up and the game went on. Today, they play video game XYZ, or watcth the movie ABC, and you put the laser designator on their forehead and you get a high-def, slo-mo view of the grey matter going all over the wall and the body there twitching.
When the already-unstable and sick get into that, and see it hours and hours on end, look out.
Should regulate THAT junk more than hardcore porn.