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Monday, March 4, 2013


    It is the people who subtly promote their violent tendencies and
    their need for war (war supports the economy to some degree) by
    HIDING behind sport, patriotism, the Second Amendment, and the fear
    of crime, Communism, Muslim terrorists, etc. that disgust me. There
    is a difference between young people who genuinely enjoy hunting or
    target practice and who respect guns... and those who see war as an
    athletic event, or those who have a desire to kill for revenge or
    whatever. I don't know any WWII, Korea, or Vietnam veterans who ever
    voiced pleasure at the sight of young people wearing military-
    related images on clothing - or even actually military surplus
    clothing, for that matter. REAL military veterans, at least in my
    and my parents' generations, usually don't like to see war
    glorified.
    As for the idea that as long as a kid is reading anything, it's
    okay - - how sick is that? "Reading" magazines, for instance, that
    concentrate on images of women being bound, gagged, tortured, and
    killed are okay, right? --- because pictures don't actually kill,
    after all. Absurd.
    Any good parent would monitor what their child reads and so would a
    school. A balance of ideas promoted in reading material is likely
    not harmful; too much fantasy might be something to watch for; ideas
    that target and scapegoat a certain group or individual are probably
    NOT healthy; the effects of years and years of viewing hard c &re p
    * ^ n have been studied but it doesn't take reading research to know
    that these guys usually have performance issues with real women.
    What kids at certain impressionable ages or with certain mental
    faculties and/or emotional states read DOES matter.
    I do understand and agree with those who say that recent mass
    murders have caused some schools to go overboard and react stupidly,
    but school officials typically ARE stupid. That isn't anything new. I
    That is irrelevent to the issue of the boy with the so-
    called "Marines" tshirt...I still object to a student wearing an
    image of crossed rifles or any other image that promotes war and
    violence, the subjugation or devaluation of women or any other
    group, and so on. I would NOT object to the wearing of an official
    U.S. Military emblem...but I would object to a student saying he
    can't wait until he gets out of school so he can join the military
    and go kill gooks or whoever.
    The simplistic argument that guns don't kill, people do, is actually
    the point: since people kill, guns should not be so available
    to people.---unknown author

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