New report finds Christchurch shooter was radicalized on YouTube and Facebook

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  1. (original)late

    (original)late Banned

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    That doesn't help you. At all.

    Do the soldiers pick up real guns, after playing a video game, and rampage around the base shooting people?

    No, they do not.
     
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    JET3534 Well-Known Member

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    Back in the day Confederate leaders had a classical liberal education and were familiar with the Greek and Roman classics that were taught in Colleges at the time to teach people how to think. Whereas now college is job training. How many people today read books?
     
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    Hell ya, then it was called television.. Growing up we had westerns, war, gangster, cowboy and Indians 24/7 :) I read a article once about Chuck Connor "The rifleman" and how many people he killed :)

     
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    He was a politician building a base of support.

    Why do you guys have so much trouble with the obvious?
     
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    Clearly you don't get it.. Todays world is not DOOM :) Today it's interaction with literally thousands of other interactive players while in direct communication. I have heard 12 year old's go completely ballistic from a loss in a group assault game, threatening to find out where everyone lives and kill them and their whole family HUNDREDS of times..

    I could go in to it much deeper but I can tell, you haven't a real understanding or background or you wouldn't disagree that video games stress children and adults out :)
     
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    Since you mentioned Chuck Connor one of my favorite Rifleman scenes is the following with Lee Van Cleef who went on to star in several movies. I was just out shooting a lever action rifle at the gun range yesterday. If Biden realizes how effective lever action guns are at close range he will have them classified as NFA weapons.
     
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    REALLY :wierdface:
     
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    So do adults ;) And children grow up to be adults ;)
     
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    Exactly what King George III said! He also stated "Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel."
     
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    Yup they sure do ;)
     
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    That’s not the evidence I was looking for. Oh well. What do you think of the folks up north who were spoon fed stuff from religious leaders about slavery being immoral?
     
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    And you dodged
     
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    Then if the radical right/left are doing the same thing - should they also be “silenced”?
     
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    just shows religious leaders can be moral and immoral, being a Christian religious leader doesn't mean one is a good person
     
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    But here in lies the problem , what do you qualify as “extremist rhetoric” ?

    There are some that just simply label people as extremists just for disagreeing with their view point .
     
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    Thread win! :)
     
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    Yes, where appropriate.
     
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    You mean I have been radicalised and brainwashed!!! 8)
     
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    Robert Byrd got his juris doctorate and was valedictorian of his class.

    So, clearly, they do.
     
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    Hes been thoroughly wrecked throughout this thread, hes run out of material.
     
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    Yeh. Stereotyping is usually not based on facts. Or it’s based on misrepresentation of facts.
     
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