I remember those days but I don’t remember the kind of shootings we see today. Of course we didn’t have the endless supply of shooter computer games and violent movies either.
Back then the threat of atomic bombs was conceptual. Preparations for attack was a ghostly holdover from WW2. The insidious nature of the gun culture of the NRA and corporate gun industry has made the threat and reality of death and dying in schoolchildren a daily occurrence and reminder we never had to live with during the cold war era.
THEODORE, every study done on violent video games and movies debunks the connection to the mass shootings. People in other countries play the games and see the movies without it resulting in mass shootings. The difference is the gun culture and the incessant push by the NRA to prohibit any sort of gun control.
Speaking of video games, Sandy Hook shooter’s obsession was with Dance Dance Revolution. He was so obsessed the theater manager where he played it would have to unplug the game to get him to leave.
Back in his day he was preparing for an invasion from foreign troops – today’s kids are preparing for the kid who sits next to them. Back during the cold war – assault rifles were illegal.
I remember a trip that we took when I was in grade school to the atomic energy Museum. So that would be about someplace between 1955 and 1958. I think that what I saw there scarred me for life and scared me for life. Can you imagine that they actually at one point in the 50s we’re planning 2 build a pass through the Sierra Nevadas using nuclear bombs to clear the mountains so that the freeway the new freeway would be effortless to build. At some point in that time they realized what the Half life nuclear fallout truly indicated about how soon they could use that Highway to travel from LA to Las Vegas. Probably not for at least 500 years or more. I’ve never liked the idea of having nuclear power plants because nothing that human beings build or built since the Great Pyramids has had any kind of structural integrity that would ensure that we wouldn’t suffer from the nuclear wastes produced by those nuclear power plants. I mean what do you do with those nuclear waste? Put them in barrels and drop them in the sea, we all know how corrosive ocean water is when it reacts with metal containers? Or maybe we find some unpopulated place on Earth and dump it there Maybe the Russians will let us use the Chernobyl failed nuclear site to dump nuclear waste???? Nah I don’t think so. And yeah I remember all the Duck and Cover drills that we went through in those days and every single one of us kids knew that those drills were totally useless if we were anywhere close to Ground Zero. Since I was a military brat we lived close to military bases and therefore we were priority targets. I remember one kid telling the teacher….. After that atomic Museum trip he asked …..why don’t we just have a drill to kiss our butts goodbye because that’s a better drill than trying to hide under a desk during a nuclear attack. I think my generation was totally scarred by living under the threat of nuclear warfare. Can you imagine the trauma that these kids are going through under the ….
……immediate threat of possibly never coming home from school again? We have one at least one school shooting every week. It affects every child in every school in the nation. It has to be totally traumatizing to know that there is always the possibility that today is the day someone is going to go on a rampage in their school. Not only are we not implementing strong enough gun control but we are not implementing adequate mental health care for those affected by their surroundings to become shootists. My grandkids are almost all the way through school but what about my great-grandkids what will happen to them????
Ontman about 6 years ago
I remember those days. Looking back, I never realized anything could be scarier.
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member about 6 years ago
I remember those days but I don’t remember the kind of shootings we see today. Of course we didn’t have the endless supply of shooter computer games and violent movies either.
Stephen Runnels Premium Member about 6 years ago
Back then the threat of atomic bombs was conceptual. Preparations for attack was a ghostly holdover from WW2. The insidious nature of the gun culture of the NRA and corporate gun industry has made the threat and reality of death and dying in schoolchildren a daily occurrence and reminder we never had to live with during the cold war era.
Nantucket Premium Member about 6 years ago
THEODORE, every study done on violent video games and movies debunks the connection to the mass shootings. People in other countries play the games and see the movies without it resulting in mass shootings. The difference is the gun culture and the incessant push by the NRA to prohibit any sort of gun control.
Speaking of video games, Sandy Hook shooter’s obsession was with Dance Dance Revolution. He was so obsessed the theater manager where he played it would have to unplug the game to get him to leave.
retpost about 6 years ago
He tried to GOOGLE it and nothing came up.
Mr. Blawt about 6 years ago
Back in his day he was preparing for an invasion from foreign troops – today’s kids are preparing for the kid who sits next to them. Back during the cold war – assault rifles were illegal.
Radish the wordsmith about 6 years ago
The crooked Trump admin with their nuclear threats will bring back duck and cover drills.
Sadandconfused9 about 6 years ago
I remember a trip that we took when I was in grade school to the atomic energy Museum. So that would be about someplace between 1955 and 1958. I think that what I saw there scarred me for life and scared me for life. Can you imagine that they actually at one point in the 50s we’re planning 2 build a pass through the Sierra Nevadas using nuclear bombs to clear the mountains so that the freeway the new freeway would be effortless to build. At some point in that time they realized what the Half life nuclear fallout truly indicated about how soon they could use that Highway to travel from LA to Las Vegas. Probably not for at least 500 years or more. I’ve never liked the idea of having nuclear power plants because nothing that human beings build or built since the Great Pyramids has had any kind of structural integrity that would ensure that we wouldn’t suffer from the nuclear wastes produced by those nuclear power plants. I mean what do you do with those nuclear waste? Put them in barrels and drop them in the sea, we all know how corrosive ocean water is when it reacts with metal containers? Or maybe we find some unpopulated place on Earth and dump it there Maybe the Russians will let us use the Chernobyl failed nuclear site to dump nuclear waste???? Nah I don’t think so. And yeah I remember all the Duck and Cover drills that we went through in those days and every single one of us kids knew that those drills were totally useless if we were anywhere close to Ground Zero. Since I was a military brat we lived close to military bases and therefore we were priority targets. I remember one kid telling the teacher….. After that atomic Museum trip he asked …..why don’t we just have a drill to kiss our butts goodbye because that’s a better drill than trying to hide under a desk during a nuclear attack. I think my generation was totally scarred by living under the threat of nuclear warfare. Can you imagine the trauma that these kids are going through under the ….
Sadandconfused9 about 6 years ago
……immediate threat of possibly never coming home from school again? We have one at least one school shooting every week. It affects every child in every school in the nation. It has to be totally traumatizing to know that there is always the possibility that today is the day someone is going to go on a rampage in their school. Not only are we not implementing strong enough gun control but we are not implementing adequate mental health care for those affected by their surroundings to become shootists. My grandkids are almost all the way through school but what about my great-grandkids what will happen to them????
RAGs about 6 years ago
I wonder if Ida the hoser understands the goal of “education”.