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Zoeisright

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1. True, but

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Fri Dec 14, 2012, 03:00 PM

Dec 2012

there was plenty of violence in the world before mass media and profit. For instance, people used to be skinned alive. And the guillotine was invented long before video games.

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As long as violence makes big bucks via politics and entertainment in our culture [View all] flamingdem Dec 2012 OP

True, but Zoeisright Dec 2012 #1

This kind of warped mass murder at a school was unheard of before the proliferation of hand guns in flamingdem Dec 2012 #2