Yesterday, we discussed how various people have used the massacre in Connecticut to call for everything from gun control to new social programs and prayer in school. Now, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), a long advocate for censoring music and speech, added his own take: crackdown on violent video games. Lieberman described Adam Lanza of having a “hypnotic involvement” with the games and called on Congress to get involved.
Of course, it was not Lanza history of mental illness. Lieberman’s focus is on the games he played — the same games played by hundreds of millions of kids and adults who do not run to their local school to mow down students. However, Lieberman insists that “[v]ery often these young men have an almost hypnotic involvement in some form of violence in our entertainment culture – particularly violent video games. . . And then they obtain guns and become not just troubled young men but mass murderers.”
The basis for his concern with regard to Lanza? “Rumors” that he played the games. It was enough however to go to the floor of the Senate to call for yet another area of government regulation of speech and association.
Lieberman recognizes that the games seem to leave a surprising number of people in a non-murderous state, but that is just a fortunate side note: “Thank God, not all of them become murderers, but some of them do and we have to ask why.” I prefer to ask why we are talking about video games instead of the history of mental illness demonstrated by Lanza. And that is not even a rumor.
ABOLISH Video games !!!!
My Wife Works in the School System, for many, many years….
Everyday these teenagers come to School in a STUPOR… and they go home in the same dead STUPOR!…I’m talking 90% of them!
Why ? Because their up All Night (whether or Not you Know this!) Lack of Sleep! Not Good!
Most of them are DUMBER than a ROCK!
Give them a Test, and they are DUH ????
Does this Promote Violence?….You Betcha!
Don’t you See how most of them Talk and Act toward their Parents, and others ?
No Respect !
I Guess these kids will get a JOB as a ZOMBIE, cause thats the Only thing their proficient at !
It seems that most of you People are Oblivious to how these Kids are behaving, and what you should be doing to better their Lives.
Wake up, before more of these Senseless Murders continue to Fester !
Seems violent videos were the least of Lanza’s problems. Into devil and death worship and acutely jealous over his mother spending time with kindergarteners from Sandy Hook Elementary schoo,l the 20 year old lashed out on Dec. 14th killing 27 people and himself.
Read the Daily Mail story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2250661/Adam-Lanzas-classmate-reveals-Sandy-Hook-gunman-online-devil-worshiping-page.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Did you hear the latest on Lieberman. In spite of his religion he insists on saying Lieberman uber alles. He insists also on holding his position in the Senate as Connecticut’s senator. Proof that not all Conn. citizens have good judgement. (who is the other senator?)
Darren,
Did you see my comment, saying to watch out for nominations to scapegoats? Especially the well-defended ones will be named by our pols.
You don’t have personal motives, do you? 🙂
Rich and DonS,
I’ll never consult Wiki about drugs again. They mentioned no neg psychiatric side effects at all. Will try Drug.com
All in-package medical informtion in Sweden is produced by a jointly owned drug company controlled to standards established by goverment..
Looking at side-effects may console, but most often worry. But we would-be MDs and others may do so. Don’t be your own doctor, but keep an eye on him.
Let’s look at this pragmaticaly. How many violent video game programs are installed on teenagers’ hard drives of game consoles? Billions I would venture to say. How many murders were committed by teenagers for any reason? Several thousand? How many were directly related to video games(even if greatly exaggerated in whatever link is alleged)? Less than 5 maybe?
So statistcally speaking, it is not even a measurable co-relation. Why is this the subject of legislation for something that is not even statistically relevant? 30,000 people die in the US every year in traffic collisions, is the Senator going to ask to end teenage driving as well?
Rich, I don’t know this med, since it was not in broad use about the time I retired. But I would suggest, or suggest not to, read the possible side effects (no matter how statistically remote) included in the literature that accompanies most meds. Actually it’s so arcane and ridiculously complicated, that it’s probably less helpful than more.
There are reports that Adam Lanza was being medicated with Fanapt, an antipsychotic drug that sometimes does the opposite of what it is supposed to.
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From Drugs.com, side effects of the drug Fanapt:
Psychiatric
Psychiatric side effects including restlessness, aggression, and delusion have been reported frequently. Hostility, decreased libido, paranoia, anorgasmia, confusional state, mania, catatonia, mood swings, panic attack, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bulimia nervosa, delirium, polydipsia psychogenic, impulse-control disorder, and major depression have been reported infrequently.
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Link:
http://www.businessinsider.com/adam-lanza-taking-antipsychotic-fanapt-2012-12
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/movies/newtown-massacre-changes-plans-at-movie-and-tv-studios.html?hp “A Massacre Reverberates in TV and Movie Studios Where Violence Is Bread and Butter”
Canadians are not as violent. And, while patriotic, they don’t go around thumping their chests about how great they are. They are not afflicted by exceptionalism, and all the excessive need to continually assert their dominance.
Maybe they are better at raising their kids.
Researchers are hard at work in Canada on studies determining why this northern neighbor of the United States can play all these video games and not have massive numbers of mass shootings.
Mass killings occur in USA once every two weeks
Homicides and mass killings in the United States, 2006-10
“About every two weeks in the United States, four or more people (not including the killer) die in a mass killing. Some get little media attention. As frequent as they are, however, mass killings make up only about 1% of the roughly 15,000 people murdered in the U.S. each year.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/18/mass-killings-common/1778303/
Jim2,
Good tip. Is it true. Meanwhile we can read more in our latest speculation game.
Iloperidone – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iloperidone – Översätt den här sidan
Iloperidone, also known as Fanapt, Fanapta, and previously known as Zomaril, is an atypical antipsychotic for the treatment of schizophrenia. It was approved by …
Pharmacology – Laboratory studies – Clinical studies – Side effects
Those violent video games do lead kids to do horrible things… Like sit around and play video games all day long.
Jim2,
This is more distractions. Finding a scapegoat who is well-defended.
Is America putting their psychotics on the street, and with guns too?
For those, who like myself, did not recognize the name, deep searching in Wiki gave this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wright_(author)
To be of service always.
numerous news outlets are now reporting Lanza was taking the antipsychotic medication Fanapt which is reported to have severe side effects such as a increase in violence and aggression.
Sorry, it was Idealist not Anonymous.