Feraud
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I agree with this. The current state of media saturation in conjunction with other elements like parental influence (or lack of) and the continued stigma of recognizing and dealing with mental issues all play a part in contributing to violent outbreaks.I'm beginning to think it's not just too much violence in media, although that's certainly not a good thing. I'm becoming more and more convinced that it's *too much media* period. Children are immersed in media before they're old enough to process it properly, in ways that those of us raised thirty or forty or more years ago never were. And we haven't even begun to understand what that does to the development of the human brain. I think the more "plugged in" we become as a society the more of this kind of aberration we're going to see -- the human mind was never meant to function in a constant, unrelenting state of sensory overload.
Consider people you know or have encountered who have the potential for such violence. We should be as concerned about the number of people who walk around suffering with violent tendencies as with the guy who goes bezerk.