We Have Become A Violent Society

[RICHARD]

I was surfing my favorite channels to see if my program was on.

The show I stumbled on was reviewing the video game Grand Theft Auto IV.
The hosts were playing it as they commented on the way it was set up.

The object of the game was to steal cars, shoot the owners as they ran away, get into gunfights with the cops as they chased you, run over pedestrians and be able to drive away from accidents you caused while being chased.


I play vid games about once every three months and maybe for an hour or two. I can see where some vidiot could spend a few weeks trying to get to level 14-and picking up some bad habits on the way.

[Fett]

Way more crime happens on a daily basis than ever makes the news. Only certain crimes seem to catch media airplay. In big metro areas, crime run rampant constantly, and the police just don't have enough manpower to do much about it.

I used to work a few miles north of Detroit, and having co-workers that grew up their whole lives in Detroit said stuff like people stealing cars happens so much on a daily basis that the police no longer even go out for those calls. One of them even knew someone in their family that it happened to so they had first hand account. When you call the police station, they say all they can do is have the person come down to the station and fill out a report.

Same person told me the people next door to her parent's house (in Detroit) got new sod installed in their yard, and overnight someone stole it. Yes, you heard right, someone ripped off their YARD.

I've heard tons of stories like that from her. Some guy bouncing a girls head off a curb right outside a restaurant and people just walking by because they didn't want to get involved "in case the guy had a gun or something"......and this is just one urban city. ALL urban cities have the same thing going on currently and it's just so sad. Even the "good areas" have crime like this. A week ago someone tried to carjack a lady in the member's parking lot of a country club in suburbia near where we live. It seems you always just gotta be aware of your surroundings in these times of the world. Crazy.

[Catlady711]

I may be in the minority with my opinon.

I think the violence has more to do with parents ALLOWING their children (read 2-8 year olds) to kick, hit, slap people, including the parents! What does that teach them? It teaches them that violence is expected, gets you what you want, or has no consequences.

You can bet if I did any of that to my mom as a kid there would have been an immediate reprocussion of the painful rear end type. It simply was not tolerated when I grew up by either my mom, or anyone else I encountered.

Just my $.02 worth.