Could Dark Movies and Video Games Incite Killings?
COULD MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES THAT ARE FILLED WITH EXTREME VIOLENCE AND MURDER, ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, TO KILL?
This is such a great question and I’m glad that someone, is bringing this out for the potential of millions of people to read, to think more clearly and more deeply as it’s obvious our country is falling way behind in taking care of our own people.
Number One. The short answer is yes. Anyone with mental health issues, or who is extremely racist, we believe racism is a form of mental illness, when they see these “dark, damaging movies”, it could be something that breaks the camel’s back and encourages them to go on some type of mindless killing spree.
I think the average individual can watch these movies without any desire to replicate what they’re seeing in the movie, rather they’re able to dissociate from the thought process of “let me go out and kill people“, to that was an interesting movie, what are we doing for dinner?
The mindset of the mentally ill, the mentally damaged, the individuals with zero self-confidence and zero self-esteem which leads them to want to find a way to be recognized, validated, almost put into “the hero mode” as they go in to do their mass murders.
So these dark movies could have an extremely negative effect on those with mental illness, or those who are involved with cults associated with racism, but I don’t believe they’re going to have much of an effect on the general public.
However, I would like to make some very strong points that I believe we should be talking about on a daily basis and figuring out. We are supposed to be the most powerful country in the world, but we surely aren’t showing it in the way these mass murders continue to arise.
Number Two. Social media platforms need to be held more accountable for what’s going on in their chat rooms!
A great example is what happened in the Buffalo supermarket massacre a few weeks ago. The killer, obviously racist and anti-Semitic, had been talking for months about his desire to murder people, yet where the hell were the moderators on the social media platform that should have clued in to his mental health issues?
And it doesn’t only happen on the “dark social media platforms“, it’s happening on Facebook every day.
Where the hell are the Facebook moderators when it comes to racism, prejudice, or conversations about murdering people?
Any and all social media platforms need to be put underneath a strict microscope, and I know people are going to be screaming about “free speech“, well in my opinion throw free-speech the hell out the window when it comes to individuals planning to murder or planning to incite people to riot in the national capital, or to go into a school or a supermarket and murder as many people as they can.
Number Three. What type of weapons are used in these mass murders? These massacres. My very good friend, Scarlett Lewis, lost her six-year-old son Jesse in the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre about 12 years ago, and let’s get real, what are the weapons used during these mass murders?
Are they pens?
Are they scissors?
Are the killers using a bow and arrow?
Are they using hangers?
Are they using shovels and axes?
Hell no! They’re using damn assault rifles! Which I refer to as machine guns! Where the hell is our government? Where the hell are the social media platform moderators?
Why the hell are we still allowing assault rifles to be on the streets of the United States of America?
And here’s a question I have for every parent that owns a damn assault rifle. If your child, I pray to God you never go through what my friend Scarlett Lewis went through, is murdered in a mass murder at their elementary school with an assault rifle, as a parent of a child who is now dead, are you going to hold onto your assault rifle and fight for your Second Amendment?
If you are that type of person, you need to be in jail yourself. It’s a sickness, a serious mental health issue.
When our founding fathers created the Second Amendment, were there assault rifles on the streets in 1776? Were there damn machine guns around at that time? As far as I know, there were not.
So why the hell are we allowing these killing machines to be on the streets of America?
The last I checked with my clients in Australia, assault rifles are not even ever allowed in that country.
Why is the United States of America living in the dark ages?
Or is it going to take the murder of Mitch McConnell‘s great grandchildren or Ted Cruz‘s grandchildren to wake up the members of Congress to see the seriousness we’re in?
This is a long answer to this question. Yes, the dark killing movies and video games can definitely inspire a sick, mentally ill individual with a desire to do damage to other humans.
But that’s not the main issue. The main issues are the points I made above, I will stand by these until the day I die.
I’ve recently been interviewed multiple times by New York television stations on the state of these mass murders, and I made the same comments I made above.
I am backing individuals like NBA coach of the Golden State Warriors Steve Kerr.
I am backing the Gifford Foundation for sensible-gun control.
I pray this article gets into the hands of millions of millions of individuals and wakes up our country that has fallen into a deep sleep, and our cages need to be rattled.
We want to be part of the solution, so we’ve just created a brand new organization, “mentalhealthhealing.org”, in which we have a variety of individuals and organizations some that which I’ve listed above, that we’ve put as a clearinghouse for people who are struggling with any form of mental health issue.
We want others to be part of the solution as well, but we will not sit back and allow our government to put its head in the sand, and our politicians to put their heads in the sand so they continue to get money and donations from organizations like the NRA.
Let’s work with logic and love to end these senseless murders.
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