Another School Shooting

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(05-18-2018, 09:31 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Those kids used to be able to fist fight it out in school and get detention.  With no tolerance policies it stays inside until it just boils over with a weapon.     I am sure everyone would rather see more fist fights at sjool rather than letting it escalate to serious violence.    Kids need an outlet.

The social media culture of today does push celebrity over all else.

I don't know the whole story, but didn't this guy shoot a girl who kept rejecting his creepy advances?  I'm not sure how promoting fist fighting would have prevented this from going further.  I guess the guy could have beaten her up, or fought the guy she wanted to date instead?  Hell, maybe Islamic terrorists wouldn't want to kill us if we just made it legal for them to punch us.

This looks to me like a male decided he has a right to grab whatever female he desires and if she resists then he's within his right to feel cheated.  This is a multi-faceted issue with political figures and Hollywod itself constantly promoting the idea that sociopathic actions get the girl. We are a very angry culture and we romanticize the notions of fighting, shooting, and getting revenge when we've been "wronged" or when we decide we are under attack and need to "defend" ourselves.  This doesn't seem very fame-driven to me.  This is one of those "you get out what you put in" sort of situations and our society fills the heads of the populace with non-stop insanity via real and fictitious media and then makes sure we're over-armed just to sweeten the pot.

Just my take.