DIN's Take on the Murder of 19 Children and 2 Adults in Texas

 

DIN readers are usually up to date with the news and know that 19 children and two adults were killed on Tuesday and dozens more injured in a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The shooter was 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, a student at Uvalde High School, who was subsequently killed. The gunman also shot and killed his grandmother before embarking on the shooting spree at the school. The students who were shot dead were between second and fourth grades, and between the ages of 7 and 10.

Of course the DemonRats are blaming the guns and so are many frum Jews. I am not privy of all the gun regulations now in effect and so I don't have an opinion on this until I do some research. But I do know that a gun stopped him and if there were some more adults on campus with guns this would have never happened. 

But I believe I have my finger on the problem and I have not seen anyone talk about it. 

I am on Social Media and Social Media no matter the platform, have ads. 

Facebook has a ribbon on the bottom of the page which lets you choose various functions from a menu. There is a "home" button where you can see all the posts from those who you made "friends" with. 

Then there is a "Gaming" button that lets you play games. 

The "games" are practically all violent. In some of the games you can walk down a busy street with random people walking around and you can just walk over to anyone and punch him in the face without any warnings. These fictional characters look very realistic.

In the ad promoting this particular game, you can see the guy playing the game, which shows a guy or gal controlling the character on the screen, which goes over to a young mother pushing a carriage with a child in it, grab the child toss it into traffic and then punching the young mother to death. The creator of the game not satiated with the violence this character just perpetrated on his victim, finds an elderly guy walking with a cane and proceeds to grab the cane and repeatedly beat the old man with his cane around his head and torso until he collapses.

Now what I just described is just the ad which is supposed to entice you to enter this game, it's not the game. Who knows what violence is in the game itself?

In another ad a young man walks around with a submachine gun and kills all police he sees.

I have just described the "mild" games. This is all on Facebook . Tik Tak is far worse because they have actual people committing violent crimes on random people and then displaying this for the entire world to see.

את חטאי אני מזכיר היום When I was a child growing up, I remember watching movies in which the character got killed. But until he got killed, you got to know him, you saw that he was a family man had one or two children, and may have had parents, and when he was killed, I felt really bad for him and the family that he left behind. 

Today's movies, open up with a scene where a guy murders 10 -20 random people in the first 2 minutes of the film. Children watching this violent movie have no connections or feelings to the people murdered and therefore have absolutely no empathy for the victims.

Most of the videos and movies catering to children and teenagers are loaded with violent content and I'm including cartoons. Remember most children today, don't play outside (except in Israel) they go to an empty home and immediately go to their gaming videos etc and play these violent games. They can even play with others over the internet with people in another state or country; they don't even have to know these competitors. Some of this children are experts in these games and know how to navigate the screen perpetrating the most violence that he can muster without getting his own character hurt . The winner is the one who did the most damage. 

Since they are playing with competitors that they don't even know, they have little or no social interaction with their "live" peers. No one even knows them even in their own school environment. They are for the most part loners. They are also very dangerous. 

I really believe that this is where "the dog is buried." 

A teenager watching or playing a game where he can just walk over to random people  and either torture or kill them in a setting that looks so real and believable, will lose all sensitivity and empathy for the people around him.

He will kill his own grandmother or murder his entire family without giving it a thought.

I believe this is the problem and until others see it this way, violence will continue unabated with or without gun control laws. 

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