CDZ Went to the movie theatre to watch a movie, guess what was on the screen?

[Billy_Kinetta]

Back in the old days, shows like the lone ranger marketed towards children depicted gun violence and those kids didn't grow up to be psychos.

Indeed.

toy gun commercials 50s and 60s - YouTube

 

[hadit]

'Hobbs & Shaw' is No. 1 but trails pace of 'Fast & Furious'

'Hobbs & Shaw' is No. 1 but trails pace of 'Fast & Furious'

Guns, lots of guns, machine guns, rockets, pistols and flame throwers. Then there are those on the left, that say we have a problem with people with "guns". Do you ever wonder why there are 19 year olds out there shooting up people?

Most people will fanatically tell you there's no correlation between the silver or pixel screen and real life violence. After enough of them have repeated this message, you'll realize it's a canned response, much like a dog trained to give paw. Kids worship movies and movie heroes. I know I did. I grew up with Spaghetti Westerns and crime thrillers and Hammer Horror feature films. Of course, seeing and absorbing violence in those films of yore did not lead me to shoot up some block of civilians somewhere. More like they led me to paint bullet wounds onto my Star Wars and G.I. Joe action figures, but I digress. Kids these days, and lot's of 'em, just can't separate movie and video game violence from real life—I mean that's just common sense, right? What traditional frame of reality do modern kids have; what escape do they get from too much screen time? They don't play outside like we did growing up and many of them have never known a world without smart devices and realistic video game gore. We're reaping what we've sown as society who embraces "artistic" violence by the gore filled bucket. We've made our bed. Now our kids have to "deal" with it. And they are . . .

I find it interesting that, while many claim violent entertainment has no impact whatsoever on children, Madison Avenue spends billions placing messages in entertainment that they KNOW has massive impact on not only children, but adults.

 

[otto105]

Back in the old days, shows like the lone ranger marketed towards children depicted gun violence and those kids didn't grow up to be psychos.

Okay, so you are okay that violence is being rampantly shown on movies and tv?

Are you trying to make the point that we a nation are more violent than we were 50 or 100 years ago?

 

[night_son]

Back in the old days, shows like the lone ranger marketed towards children depicted gun violence and those kids didn't grow up to be psychos.

Okay, so you are okay that violence is being rampantly shown on movies and tv?

Are you trying to make the point that we a nation are more violent than we were 50 or 100 years ago?

More violent within our domestic borders, yes. Many times more desensitized to "artistic" violence, check.

 

[Picaro]

Back in the old days, shows like the lone ranger marketed towards children depicted gun violence and those kids didn't grow up to be psychos.

Shows like The Lone Ranger, Sky King, Roy Rogers, etc, had clear distinctions between good guys and bad guys, they weren't glorifying gang bangers and pieces of human shit like rappers and street thugs.

 

[Auld Phart]

Back in the old days, shows like the lone ranger marketed towards children depicted gun violence and those kids didn't grow up to be psychos.

Shows like The Lone Ranger, Sky King, Roy Rogers, etc, had clear distinctions between good guys and bad guys, they weren't glorifying gang bangers and pieces of human shit like rappers and street thugs.

Hoppy always had a little something to say at the end of his show.

This was about guns.

 

[impuretrash]

Back in the old days, shows like the lone ranger marketed towards children depicted gun violence and those kids didn't grow up to be psychos.

Shows like The Lone Ranger, Sky King, Roy Rogers, etc, had clear distinctions between good guys and bad guys, they weren't glorifying gang bangers and pieces of human shit like rappers and street thugs.

Well thats true but today's children's entertainment doesn't glorify violence. It's ultra-PC and dumbed down rainbows and puppies... all this "everybody is exactly the same" and "you can do ANYTHING if you set your mind to it" crap... honestly it could be that this messaging is more harmful to a kid's mind than watching cowboys and indians duke it out...

 

[Dogmaphobe]

As far as why 19 year olds are going on shooting rampages, I would say that the desensitization to violence plays a part, but so does the lack of treatment for people who are mentally ill, ease of acquiring arms designed to kill people, the media making stars out of the shooters, the spread of radical ideology across the political spectrum and the tribalization of our society fostered by identity politics.

Generally these discussions line up with two teams fighting against one another with each side pushing its pet causes while being unwilling to admit some of these factors because it does not serve their agenda.

Partisan politics will never solve this issue.

 

[impuretrash]

The movies are fake

The shootings over the weekend are real

So let me get this straight. The "rhetoric" of a man who's been president for two years instigates mass shootings but 50+ years of graphic depictions of blood and gore billed as entertainment has no effect?

No, the rhetoric used by our president feeds hatred and fear of Mexicans
Violence towards Mexicans is an outgrowth

How about the dehumanizing rhetoric towards white males used by the media and the left-establishment? Do you think that plays a factor at all?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Back in the old days, shows like the lone ranger marketed towards children depicted gun violence and those kids didn't grow up to be psychos.

Shows like The Lone Ranger, Sky King, Roy Rogers, etc, had clear distinctions between good guys and bad guys, they weren't glorifying gang bangers and pieces of human shit like rappers and street thugs.

Hoppy always had a little something to say at the end of his show.

This was about guns.

I still have my Hopalong Cassidy drinking boot from 1957.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Back in the old days, shows like the lone ranger marketed towards children depicted gun violence and those kids didn't grow up to be psychos.

Okay, so you are okay that violence is being rampantly shown on movies and tv?

Are you trying to make the point that we a nation are more violent than we were 50 or 100 years ago?

More violent within our domestic borders, yes. Many times more desensitized to "artistic" violence, check.

The line between good guys and bad guys has been erased in popular entertainment. Criminals are often portrayed as misunderstood, good-guy-at-heart role models.

 

[Darkwind]

Back in the old days, shows like the lone ranger marketed towards children depicted gun violence and those kids didn't grow up to be psychos.

Back in those days, children were not taught to be intolerant of people with whom they disagree.

Not so much today.

 

[impuretrash]

Back in the old days, shows like the lone ranger marketed towards children depicted gun violence and those kids didn't grow up to be psychos.

Back in those days, children were not taught to be intolerant of people with whom they disagree.

Not so much today.

According to the left, back then every white child was indoctrinated from birth to hate everyone not exactly like them.

 

[Darkwind]

Back in the old days, shows like the lone ranger marketed towards children depicted gun violence and those kids didn't grow up to be psychos.

Back in those days, children were not taught to be intolerant of people with whom they disagree.

Not so much today.

According to the left, back then every white child was indoctrinated from birth to hate everyone not exactly like them.

Always consider the source.

In fact, I grew up in the late 60's and all of the 70's, graduated high school in 78.

We were, in fact, taught to be respectful of others, to listen to the opinions of others and then to form our own opinion. We were never taught to hate someone simply because they believed something we did not.

Today, the examples of people who are willing to commit violence or silence people of differing world views are everywhere. They are in fact, institutionalized. Our Universities and State colleges are teaching people, by word and example, how to hate those who do not subscribe to the official narrative.

Is it really any wonder that shootings are on the rise?

 

[mdk]

Guns don’t kill people. John McClane kills people. Also, rock music and comic books.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Back in the old days, shows like the lone ranger marketed towards children depicted gun violence and those kids didn't grow up to be psychos.

Indeed.

toy gun commercials 50s and 60s - YouTube

Back in those days you had real bad guys like Nazi's or Communists, or Indians(where were misrepresented) to be the good guy against. Today we cant say Radical Muslims are bad even though they have killed more since both world wars are over, we cant blame people of color who have killed more in the inner cities than all the "White' Nationalists combined, we just have to blame the President because the lunatic left has gone full blown mental retardation, and want violence against him, because Herr Mueller couldn't do his job.

Here is a snippet of a poem written by a famous person...Can you guess who wrote it?

The more people I killed, the longer my dreams were. I soon quit my job,
and stayed at my house in an almost comatose state. My dreams grew longer
and more vivid. They kept me alive and proved to be the only thing
to live for. I had killed nearly 38 people by the time of my twenty-third
birthday, and each one was more fulfilling than the last.

I was never really surprised at how I evaded the police. My dreams
had taken over my life, and they guided me through the right path, and
I never had need for fear of police. Or anything, for that matter.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Back in the old days, shows like the lone ranger marketed towards children depicted gun violence and those kids didn't grow up to be psychos.

Okay, so you are okay that violence is being rampantly shown on movies and tv?

Are you trying to make the point that we a nation are more violent than we were 50 or 100 years ago?

50 years ago, the Al Gores Father along with George McGovern were turning dogs and fire hoses on blacks, they werent shooting them unless they caught them doing bad things. Is that the same thing as a black man shooting another black man who lives 2 doors down? Why is it the Lickspittle Lapdog, Lame Stream Media only covers events where a mentally ill 19 year old Socialist goes on a shooting spree, but in Chicago over 40 people were shot 7 killed and not a peep from the LSM?

 

[sartre play]

The deal is you get to chose the movies or TV programs you watch, reruns of the lone ranger still on TV. you don't get to pick what country fair, movie or school some nut filled with hate choses to shoot & murder. We need to look at how & why all this hate has escalated.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Back in the old days, shows like the lone ranger marketed towards children depicted gun violence and those kids didn't grow up to be psychos.

Indeed.

toy gun commercials 50s and 60s - YouTube

Back in those days you had real bad guys like Nazi's or Communists, or Indians(where were misrepresented) to be the good guy against. Today we cant say Radical Muslims are bad even though they have killed more since both world wars are over, we cant blame people of color who have killed more in the inner cities than all the "White' Nationalists combined, we just have to blame the President because the lunatic left has gone full blown mental retardation, and want violence against him, because Herr Mueller couldn't do his job.

Here is a snippet of a poem written by a famous person...Can you guess who wrote it?

The more people I killed, the longer my dreams were. I soon quit my job,
and stayed at my house in an almost comatose state. My dreams grew longer
and more vivid. They kept me alive and proved to be the only thing
to live for. I had killed nearly 38 people by the time of my twenty-third
birthday, and each one was more fulfilling than the last.

I was never really surprised at how I evaded the police. My dreams
had taken over my life, and they guided me through the right path, and
I never had need for fear of police. Or anything, for that matter.

Beto the Mad One.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

I suspect that exposure to violent films has a desensitizing effect on people.

But you are looking the wrong way.These films are shown all over the world and Fast and whatever is currently in Wrexham.
But we do not see the levels of slaughter you have in the US. The answer lies elsewhere.