Shocking confession

[Manowar]

Amazing how this kid just decided to kill his mom and sister
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/25...de=2027162

Manowar

[CapnAwesome]

There are crazy people out there but we have to remember that is exactly what this poor kid is, a crazy person. For all the talk of violent movies and music making people violent we actually live in the least violent time in history.

I think all this talk about our culture desensitizing us to violence is bullshit also. Less than 80 years ago we had public executions in the US. 99.99% of people can differentiate between fantasy and real violence, those people will always be fucked up and sterilizing the violence out of culture won't make any difference.

[Napoléon]

I think all this talk about our culture desensitizing us to violence is bullshit also. Less than 80 years ago we had public executions in the US. 99.99% of people can differentiate between fantasy and real violence, those people will always be fucked up and sterilizing the violence out of culture won't make any difference.

This. A million times this.

[HorribleOffensiveScouser91]

There are crazy people out there but we have to remember that is exactly what this poor kid is, a crazy person. For all the talk of violent movies and music making people violent we actually live in the least violent time in history.

I think all this talk about our culture desensitizing us to violence is bullshit also. Less than 80 years ago we had public executions in the US. 99.99% of people can differentiate between fantasy and real violence, those people will always be fucked up and sterilizing the violence out of culture won't make any difference.

I think there is a huge difference between seeing people brutally murdered in front of you and killing a load of people for brownie points on a computer war game. Public executions certainly didn't desensitize people to think it was okay, gradually killing more and more people on a computer game or seeing it in movies, there is certainly more of an argument to say that is desensitizing as opposed to public executions of people.

[pocaracas]

in the US. 99.99% of people can differentiate between fantasy and real violence, those people will always be fucked up and sterilizing the violence out of culture won't make any difference.

314 million people in the USA alone, times 0.0001 (considering 99.99% are sane), gives you 31400 fucked up people!!

That's why this sort of things seems to happen mostly in the US, China, India, Brazil.... anywhere where the population is huge, bam.

[Minimalist]

gives you 31400 fucked up people!!

Redo your math. There are far more republicunts than that.

[CapnAwesome]

I think there is a huge difference between seeing people brutally murdered in front of you and killing a load of people for brownie points on a computer war game. Public executions certainly didn't desensitize people to think it was okay, gradually killing more and more people on a computer game or seeing it in movies, there is certainly more of an argument to say that is desensitizing as opposed to public executions of people.

People weren't being forced to attend public executions, they were going gleefully because they wanted to. Is it a huge surprise that the resulting society was one in which lynching was largely accepted? A generation before that people went out on picnics to watch battles.

As for violent video games if all those kids saw a real murder , they would clearly understand the difference between that and the video game. It's a fucked up mind that doesn't understand the difference. I don't place even an iota of blame on Rob Zombie for this poor kid. In an earlier generation he probably would of been even more fucked up.

[Confused Ape]

those people will always be fucked up and sterilizing the violence out of culture won't make any difference.

I agree. Nutters could be inspired to do horrific things by reading some of Shakespeare's plays. Should we ban these plays? What about history books? Nutters could be inspired to do horrific things from reading them so should we ban history books too?

[Rev. Rye]

Let me see if I can go over some of the more salient points in this article

"While watching it I was amazed at how at ease the boy was during the murders and how little remorse he had afterword [sic]. I was thinking to myself it would be the same for me when I kill someone,"

You know what this really reminds me of? Crime and Punishment. The kid decides he's one of those people who can kill people with little effort, but it turns out, everything goes wrong, and the only real difference is that he goes right from killing his victims to confessing.

According to police, Evans killed his 48-year-old mother, Jamie Evans, and his 15-year-old sister, Mallory, inside their upscale Aledo home Oct. 3, 2012.

Oh, so it's in Aledo, TX. On October 3. What a relief. I say this because I've been on and off trolling this teenaged guy named Jake since June. It's been mostly off since November because he got banned from Deviantart for the second time in November, but I wouldn't put it past him to kill people, especially after being inspired by a shitty movie.

In a four-page written confession police said that Evans wrote hours after his arrest, he said he watched "Halloween" three times that week.
"After I watched the movie I put it back in the case and threw it in the trashcan so that people wouldn't think that it influenced me in any way," Evans wrote, according to police.

Seriously? Not only do I deplore this kid for his taste in movies, but did he seriously think that putting the DVD in the trash would exonerate the movie? If the movie was in the house, There would be some evidence that he had watched it.

"My plan was to kill my sister and my mom at my house and then go over to my grandparents and kill my oldest sister, Emily, and my two grandparents. Then I was going to wait until morning and kill my other sister, Audrey, because she was visiting from college,"

Well, I can't say I haven't seen worse plans. At least it's better than the guys who thought that he could behead 88 people before running Barack Obama over with his car, or the original plans for Columbine that involved crashing an airline into New York City and somehow surviving long enough to move to Mexico.

The initial plan, it says, was for Evans to use a folding-knife that belonged to his father. He imagined killing his sister and "causing her pain,"

Really, a pocketknife? That's probably just going to be counterproductive, especially if you intend to kill two people with it. Your sister will be screaming and your mom will probably call the police.

Evans has been charged with one count of capital murder and two counts of murder.

Yeah, the fact that he killed two people in one go means he's got a capital murder charge.

During the hearing, Evans' father, who was out of town on business at the time of the murders, told the judge he would not bond his son out of jail.

This is probably a good call.

It continues, "I know now that I'm done with killing. It's the most dreadful and terrifying thing I will ever experience and … will haunt me forever."

Remember; for 98% of the world's population (not counting the estimated 2% of people that are psychopaths), this will most likely be the emotional aftermath of killing someone close to you.

I agree. Nutters could be inspired to do horrific things by reading some of Shakespeare's plays. Should we ban these plays?

Fun fact: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were huge fans of Macbeth and King Lear, and, in addition, also loved Tess of the D'Urbevilles (which, I loved so much I actually read it twice last year); Hell, Eric loved motherfucking Steinbeck! There is nothing we can do to prevent people from being inspired by violent works of art, especially if we don't want to sterilize the whole of western culture.

[Annik]

I listened to his 911 call. It was... a strange experience.