Quote Originally Posted by HamburgO View Post
I don't think there is anything "wet" about this at all. In combination with the rest of our social disorders, the glorification of violence and the individual desensitization and disassociation that goes with it, IMO definitely compounds the problem - although I must note that kids in Canada and Europe and Japan are exposed to the same material, and we're not seeing the same levels of predatory violence in those countries. An excellent book on the subject, written not long after the Columbine shooting, is Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's "Stop Teaching Our Kids How To Kill". Grossmann is a former Army Ranger and psychologist whose studies on the physiological and psychological effects of inter-personal violence are considered seminal.
I think this is an important point, desensitization. What do people expect when there is a lot of footage from modern wars that show the view from a camera in the nose of a smart bomb or a drone delivering a strike and so on. It all starts to look like those games kids love to play on their PCs. There is a real disconnect with reality. In reality people riddled by a mini gun don't get up for round 2 and a replay. There ain't much left of them and what is would make you want to hurl your guts out in reality.

Unfortunately other countries are not immune to this either. At least Canada is not according to this Firearms and Violent Crime . The stats on the 12 to 17 age group is more than just a little worrying. We may be late to the party but we are getting there, sadly enough.