{"id":493,"date":"2012-12-18T18:22:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T00:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=493"},"modified":"2012-12-18T18:25:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T00:25:22","slug":"beyond-newtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Newtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know we can&#8217;t prevent 100% of these types of events from happening again, but that is no excuse to not act or be disingenuous.\u00a0 A best effort needs to be put forward.\u00a0 We must act swiftly &#8211; with honesty, courage and strong will.<\/p>\n<p>Before I get to the individual items, I want to put forth a theory.\u00a0 I strongly believe that it will be decided that first person shooter (FPS) video games in addition to a psychological disorder were the ultimate cause of this massacre.\u00a0 In addition, I think it may be possible that a deep-rooted memory of being made fun of etc. as a child in the school played a role.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a possibility also that children were the main targets because they would be easier to attack than adults, resulting in a higher level of &#8220;kills.&#8221;\u00a0 <strong>I in no way intend to be insensitive with the previous sentence, particularly the word &#8220;kills.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0 I am only relating the event to how it would be referred to in a video game.\u00a0 I really did not want to write that sentence because it seems so impersonal and insensitive, but in the end I deemed it necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the areas that I believe deserve our focus:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I know first hand that played often enough FPS games can actually skew reality for a person, if only for a brief moment.\u00a0 We need to control the sale and distribution of these games in the same way we do pornography.\u00a0 Additionally, parents need to take a bigger role in controlling access to this material.<\/li>\n<li>If you add any mental condition that would affect a person&#8217;s conscience, ability to judge right from wrong or perception of reality you multiply the FPS games&#8217; negative effects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>this is a post in progress and will be continued herein&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know we can&#8217;t prevent 100% of these types of events from happening again, but that is no excuse to not act or be disingenuous.\u00a0 A best effort needs to be put forward.\u00a0 We must act swiftly &#8211; with honesty, courage and strong will. Before I get to the individual items, I want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}