It appears that another tragic shooting may stoke the everlasting debates of gun control and possibly, media violence. The latest incident involves an eight year old kid who murdered his father and his father's friend. The article describes the act as premeditated and mentions the father trained the kid on how to use firearms for hunting purposes. Individual citizens interviewed for the article described the child as normal and a good kid, but obviously something happened to precipitate to violent and tragic incident. The kid is either psychologically damaged or was physically and / or sexually abused by the father and the father's friend. Of course the anti gun nuts and media scapegoaters will blame the gun itself and media violence before all the facts are known.
I do not own a gun and lived a violent city plagued by gun violence, but I do not see who draconian gun control will put an end to gun violence or prevent some nut from shooting up a school or office building. A gun is an inanimate and harmless object until it is wielded by a person with evil intentions. I am in favor of some gun control legislation such as a ban on straw purchases and implementing a potential gun owner's mental health in the background check process.
The blame game will also be extended to violent media. This argument needs to die. They argue as if violent media emits subliminal messages instructing children or anyone else to kill. I've played violent games and watched all types of violent movies and television programs and never taken a life or felt the urge to take a life. Why don't these people understand that when tragic shootings occur it is more of an indictment of the mental health system, economy and/or the familial environment of the parties involved then some other external factor such violent media.
As the year nears a close I am quite bothered that I have not been able to find any new news on the release date of Fat Freddy's Drop new album. It was suppose to drop this month. The seventh last I heard, but the seventh has past and no FFD :(!! They have been gracious to release two new singles and will give subscribers to their newsletter a free single this December. I hope it's not The Camel since I already have it. Hopefully its this one:Here are some more goodies from New Zealand's finest:
Lastly, I must say that Fallout 3 has met all my expectations and deserves Game Of The Year. It is the perfect blend of action and RPG elements. This game is extremely haunting and eerie even when traversing the DC wasteland during the daylight. I cannot play this game at night because it's just too damn disturbing.
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