Why did school shootings start rising in the 1990s proportionately with far right talk radio?

Question

Can you see you pascifistic/idealist in the 1970s shooting up a school? I cant. It wasnt until the fire of conservative talk radio emerged that youth violence really emerged( the 1960s protests were long forgotten). Even the VTech murder talked up a conservatrive pro-god game on the day he lost it. Why?

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Answer 1

probably from listening to so much (unchecked) hate filled venom

Answer 2

Your question is a "Straw Man" like (Have you quit beating your wife) You are trying to blame conservative talk radio for the shootings at the school. What a ridiculous argument. What about the Texas Clock tower shootings. Could we say that because Air America was on more people were stung by jellyfish. The person who did this was deranged. Talk radio did not make him kill people, however pacifist ideas from the 60's made it less likely for him to be stopped. The rights of mentally ill people and the gun control advocates that prevented people from being armed for their own protection.

Answer 3

This is a good example of what's known as a logical fallacy on your part. Once you get through sixth grade you'll learn that coincidence does not equate with causation. Granted, on Politics people tend to let their emotions get the best of them when attempting to make a point, but in your case, it falls flat, for a host of reasons. There's nothing in talk radio encouraging anyone to shoot anyone. Conservative talk radio started before the 1990's and school shootings started long before that (your "point" is even made worse by the fact that it's not even a good coincidence). It's also noteworthy that school shootings are extremely rare, and individuals who go about shooting classmates have never, ever cited talk radio (liberal or conservative) as something they turned to for guidance of any sort. Rather, it's usually a matter of a poor family life, being a social outcast, and depression that serves as the catalyst for school shootings.

Either you are a conservative attempting to make liberals bad as a joke, or you're a poor liberal making yourself look bad.

Answer 4

There is no link because if you look at the Columbine and other high school murders these children did not listen to anything but music. Its like trying to link heavy metal such as some Black Sabbath to children committing suicide. Its typical of a far left winger to try to come up with another conspiracy hoax. There is not scientific evidence of this in the psychological community so your lone cry in the forest proves you and Denis Kucinic would get along well in pushing the evil of conservative talk show. Anyway the left wing radio is the one that talks of murder of our president and other leaders every day so they are the ones who are responsible for hate filled venom.

Answer 5

How many teenagers listen to Rush? Probably the same number as 90-somethings who listen to Acid Rock.
Silly point.
It has as much to do with each other as EVERY OTHER VIOLENT CRIME rates going down as conservative talk radio rose.
Two things have no connection. If Sears drops the price of an exercize bike, it doesn't mean that Gold's Gym will be infested by rats.

Answer 6

i'm exceptionally confident it became precise after dad and mom stopped conserving their babies in charge for their strikes in the time of existence. probable they have been too wrapped up of their own lives to even be conscious what their little ones have been doing, you recognize, divorced-discern syndrome. Mommy and daddy constantly bailing their little ones out of difficulty every time they do something stupid as a substitute of coaching them a lesson is what led to this way of ingredient. the 1st time their little ones stole a p.c.. of gum from the save, they could have dragged them into the save by making use of their ear, made them ask for forgiveness profusely and pay off two times what the p.c.. of gum became well worth. Does that take place?? NO!! as a substitute the dad and mom do no longer even be conscious or they only tell them to no longer do it lower back. Why could the youngster pay attention?? They get to maintain the gum, they do no longer could pay for it, there are almost NO effects for their strikes, so WHY no longer proceed in this egocentric course?? little ones learn at an early age that they could do regardless of they want, all they could do is scream loud sufficient and mommy and daddy will cave. we've ourselves in charge, because of fact we go with to do what's basic as a substitute of what's precise.

Answer 7

You need to know history better.

Early 70s .Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was a U.S. Radical Left organization consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society. The group referred to itself as a revolutionary organization of women and men whose purpose was to carry out a series of attacks that would achieve the revolutionary overthrow of the Government of the United States[citation needed]. Their attacks were mostly bombings of government buildings.

The Symbionese Liberation Army (S.L.A.) was a self-styled urban guerilla warfare group that considered itself a revolutionary vanguard army. They committed bank robberies, two murders and other acts of violence between 1973 and 1975.

In 1981 Kathy Boudin, together with several members of the Black Liberation Army, participated in a robbery of a Brinks armored car at the Nanuet Mall, near Nyack, New York. Upon her arrest Boudin was identified as a member of the May 19 Communist Organization.

They were many more...

Answer 8

Actually it rose with the advent of treating kids with anti-depressants in conjunction with violent video games.

Not that those video games or anti-depressants CAUSE anybody to shoot people, but violent video games tear down natural, subconscious barriers against that kind of behavior. Anti-depressants are, by definition, mind altering. Where a kid might never consider doing such a thing, those drugs can open your mind up to all kinds of irrational and dangerous thinking and behavior. I should know, I was a victim.

You will also note that the latest shooter at Virginia tech went on a distinctly LIBERAL rant about how rich people are suppressing poor people and crap like that. Hmmm...

Answer 9

Actually, rather than linking it to talk radio, which is ridiculous in my opinion since most kids don't listen to talk radio, I link it to the rise in the violence of video games and in the media. Kids get desensitized to violence and think that there won't be real consequences.

Answer 10

Notice how the school shootings started right around the time grunge music did. You didn't see any school shootings back in the days of Disco. Even the VT killer was a big Nirvana fan.

Sorry, but you're really stretching with this one.

Answer 11

Hey why did the rise in cults and cult-murder coincide with the hippie movement of the 1960's? Why did Heroin use in the 1900's coincide with the breakup of standard oil? Why did post WWI nationalism coincide with the rise to dominance of the Yankees in baseball? They happened at the same time so all these must be connected right?