2012 Chat /BS Thread

[dazedandconfused]

Up by work the other day diesel was $4.68. It kills me seeing it that high again.

[DodgeFreak]

Mason City Iowa Diesel is $3.59 at wal mart I believe and gas is 2.98 mills fleet farm and they also give 4c off a gallon if you buy something in their store.

[tampabayBill]

$3.75 down my way in wonderful Beaumont.

[dazedandconfused]

Did you all see this shooting at the elementary school in CT? At least 27 killed and mostly kids. WTF is wrong with people?

[oldestof11]

It is sickening. 27 dead and 18 of them kids.

[dazedandconfused]

Yeah one shooter a 24 year old male is dead and they believe there was another shooter they are looking for.

[DodgeFreak]

Makes me sick.....

[tampabayBill]

As a father/grandfather and a gun owner this makes me sick in so many ways. We as a nation have to find a way to weed out these people before these kind of things can happen. As someone who has worked in mental health and whose wife is a mental health professional, we can't begin to think of a way to find these people who are not in the mental health system already, but there has to be a way and we as a nation have to find it. Makes me sick !!!

[1STGENFARMBOY]

one shooter is burning in HELL already, and the other one will soon join him.


pray for the families of the ones that have gone.

[DodgeFreak]

I believe we as a country made these people into who they are. I'm 25 and looking back 10-15 years ago I never seen the video games then that are being played now, or the movies or tv shows maybe I was lead a sheltered life but I think if they would take the violent movies and the violent games off the shelves and out of the theaters and tv's it would go along ways. But I also blieve that parents have gotten lazy now days also. When I was a kid I spent 90% outside playing and if it was raining I was inside playing. I wasn't watching tv or playing video games. We would play board games as a family and eat at the table. Now I see alot of teens that are "parents" that the grandma has the kid most of the time or the kid is with the dad one weekend and the mom the next and the kid is being taught two different things by each parent. Its crazy how times have changed.

[ellis93]

I believe we as a country made these people into who they are. I'm 25 and looking back 10-15 years ago I never seen the video games then that are being played now, or the movies or tv shows maybe I was lead a sheltered life but I think if they would take the violent movies and the violent games off the shelves and out of the theaters and tv's it would go along ways. But I also blieve that parents have gotten lazy now days also. When I was a kid I spent 90% outside playing and if it was raining I was inside playing. I wasn't watching tv or playing video games. We would play board games as a family and eat at the table. Now I see alot of teens that are "parents" that the grandma has the kid most of the time or the kid is with the dad one weekend and the mom the next and the kid is being taught two different things by each parent. Its crazy how times have changed.

this right here
Plus I hope this piece of chit dude burns twice a day for eternity. And I hope his parents are proud of what they have produced.
What will happen now is the peanut gallery liberals will flare up and scream that guns need to be taken away from the people,if you think it won't happen look who's in office. He'll whip that pen out and sign away.
You boys need to get yourselves a conceal and carry permit and start totting a firearm,its uncomfortable at first but then its like a pocket knife,you'll feel naked without it. I carry one 6 and 1/2 days a week

[peobryant]

I believe we as a country made these people into who they are. I'm 25 and looking back 10-15 years ago I never seen the video games then that are being played now, or the movies or tv shows maybe I was lead a sheltered life but I think if they would take the violent movies and the violent games off the shelves and out of the theaters and tv's it would go along ways. But I also blieve that parents have gotten lazy now days also. When I was a kid I spent 90% outside playing and if it was raining I was inside playing. I wasn't watching tv or playing video games. We would play board games as a family and eat at the table. Now I see alot of teens that are "parents" that the grandma has the kid most of the time or the kid is with the dad one weekend and the mom the next and the kid is being taught two different things by each parent. Its crazy how times have changed.

Bull, absolute bull. People need to stop trying to put blame on entertainment and realize that a "person" who would do something like this is completely insane, and I'm sure would have done something like this regardless of video games, television or anything else. This isn't about how he was raised or how he grew up, it's about him being mentally unstable. If video games or violent movies were truly a cause we'd have shootings like this every day. Blaming entertainment is the same as blaming guns for this, and I don't think many rational people are going to say guns were to blame.


That said, this absolutely breaks my heart to hear. I can't imagine the pain these parents are going through and while I'm not religious, this piece of human excrement deserves to burn for eternity. I'll be hugging my son tighter tonight, that's for sure.

[oldestof11]

So the lone ranger wasn't violent? What about bonanza? Sure, not as violent but still had violence.

[Mark Nixon]

My Ma' and Pops taught me that there was (still is!) always a consequence for everything you do and I'll be damned if they weren't absolutely, positively 100% RIGHT!

Cut and dried, just as an astute observer, WHAT these kids do, violent video games, playing "soldier" or learning how to shoot, isn't what causes them to do what they do.

It's all about attention as a child, let your kid run wild and more than likely they'll be criminals, pay attention to them, give them guidance and support and they'll most likely be a good member of society.

A sense of right and wrong also helps immensely, instilling it with corporal punishment certainly can be quite effective, a good assthumping from Pops as a kid sure got my attention an made me fly right.

To-day's children learn from the most corrupt system in the land, PUBLIC EDUCATION, where bad values and bad habits are forced on them at an early age, by both their peers and their educators, yet we wonder WHY they act like they do?

Mark.

[meby]

Bull, absolute bull. People need to stop trying to put blame on entertainment and realize that a "person" who would do something like this is completely insane, and I'm sure would have done something like this regardless of video games, television or anything else. This isn't about how he was raised or how he grew up, it's about him being mentally unstable. If video games or violent movies were truly a cause we'd have shootings like this every day. Blaming entertainment is the same as blaming guns for this, and I don't think many rational people are going to say guns were to blame.

Obviously guns don''t kill people. People kill people. Those guns didn't hop off the shelf and down the street to the school by themselves. Video games and entertainment are symptoms of a problem in my opinion. While they are not the cause of our societal problems, they sure don't help. If you play games hours a day where whenever you get killed and three seconds later you get a new guy is obviously not how it works in real life. Everything that lives, dies. Its permanent every-time. Like Mark said, every action has consequences. Good or bad. The kids who aren't taught anything else by parents, will have some kind of altered state of reality.

In a related issue, how he was raised has everything to do with his actions. You cannot separate a person and their past. All actions and decisions are a culmination of past experiences. They are the filter through which we see the world.

Most people at one time or another have felt like ending someone, but sane rational people don't act on those impulses because of the permanence and the consequences of those actions.