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RE: Mass shooting in Las Vegas. 50+ dead
October 7, 2017 at 10:29 pm
(October 7, 2017 at 10:15 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: (October 7, 2017 at 10:10 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: And the fact other countries' film industries were providing things (mostly sex, though they did create portrayals of violence Hollywood wouldn't allow) in their films that Hollywood wasn't allowed to put in was a key point that forced the Hays Code that ruled Hollywood between 1934 and 1966 to self-destruct. Not to mention that other countries like Japan now have far more violent media . Yet low rates of mass murder .
Yeah, funny thing about America: our media is remarkably tame when compared to other developed nations, but our populace seems to still be the one most disturbed by it all.
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RE: Mass shooting in Las Vegas. 50+ dead
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RE: Mass shooting in Las Vegas. 50+ dead
October 8, 2017 at 9:43 am
Yeah, I am very familiar with the story of the Columbine killers and I remember people making a stink about video games after the shooting. I always thought that was really silly. They also idolized and were motivated by Hitler, and he's no video game or movie. People like them will act out eventually and will latch onto anything as an influence.
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RE: Mass shooting in Las Vegas. 50+ dead
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RE: Mass shooting in Las Vegas. 50+ dead
October 8, 2017 at 9:55 am
Maybe hes psychopathic and has always thought it would be fun and thrilling to do something like that. Maybe he's always fantasized about it. And with old age settling in (and maybe depression, boredom, or a "late life crisis" of sorts) maybe he felt as though he's lived his life and decided to finally go for it. Honestly I'm starting to lean more towards that as more time goes by with no real motive coming to light.
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RE: Mass shooting in Las Vegas. 50+ dead
October 8, 2017 at 10:05 am
(October 8, 2017 at 9:55 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Maybe hes psychopathic and has always thought it would be fun and thrilling to do something like that. Maybe he's always fantasized about it. And with old age settling in (and maybe depression, boredom, or a "late life crisis" of sorts) maybe he felt as though he's lived his life and decided to finally go for it. Honestly I'm starting to lean more towards that as more time goes by with no real motive coming to light.
I remember a couple years ago, an old Neo-Nazi in Kansas City decided to shoot up a retirement home, apparently prompted by his being diagnosed with emphysema and being given two years to live. Until then, he was just content to shout racist bullshit over the internet and run for whatever office was available to him. Then, with the knowledge that he had nothing else to lose, he just decided to shoot up a Jewish retirement home. Ironically, the people he hit were all Christian and NOT Jewish.
And one of the Black Lives Matter police ambushers spent years preparing for a potential massacre before the opportunity to actually do something happened in Dallas. Speaking of shootings in Dallas, I'm convinced that Jack Ruby had spent years looking for an excuse to kill somebody and leapt at the opportunity to kill the assassin of the most popular president in recent history when he turned out to be in the town where he lived.
This seems like a distinct possibility to me.
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RE: Mass shooting in Las Vegas. 50+ dead
October 8, 2017 at 10:05 am
(October 8, 2017 at 9:55 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Maybe hes psychopathic and has always thought it would be fun and thrilling to do something like that. Maybe he's always fantasized about it. And with old age settling in (and maybe depression, boredom, or a "late life crisis" of sorts) maybe he felt as though he's lived his life and decided to finally go for it. Honestly I'm starting to lean more towards that as more time goes by with no real motive coming to light.
Maybe he was a liberal democrat/antifa/BLM supporter/communist who's only motivation was kill as many conservative republican/Christians/Trump supporters as he could because that's the way liberal democrat/antifa/BLM supporter/communists think.
That's the theory floating around on many of the conservative forums.
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RE: Mass shooting in Las Vegas. 50+ dead
October 8, 2017 at 10:15 am
You mean conspiracy theorists are moving back towards acknowledging that national tragedies actually happen and aren't just staged by the Dems?
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RE: Mass shooting in Las Vegas. 50+ dead
October 8, 2017 at 10:20 am
(October 8, 2017 at 10:15 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: You mean conspiracy theorists are moving back towards acknowledging that national tragedies actually happen and aren't just staged by the Dems?
If it turns out this asshole was a conservative then the theory is he was a patsy who was set up by the evil liberal democrat/antifa/BLM supporter/communists. So no, in their minds staged by the Dems is still a real possibility.
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