The Cause of Newtowns

In the post below you'll see that experts claim  Asperger's disease would not have been the cause of the Newtown Tragedy -- and that is true.

One of the major causes of such violence is the steady diet of violence and mayhem we are fed not only through daily television programs but also video and other games.

True, such a steady diet of murder does not cause everyone to go off the deep end and murder or hurt others  -- but it does affect too many young minds (often already floundering in a sea of emotional problems already) in this way.

The route to ending or reducing such carnage is not just through stricter gun control in the United States and other countries but also the elimination or reduction in violence we are feeding our minds with through television programs, movies, and video and computer games -- not to mention  the newest craze: professional kick boxing  or mixed martial arts contests.

A steady diet of such bloody mayhem has to affect the brains of all of us -- to various degrees; you have to remember that members of the Special Forces reportedly go through a desensitization to killing and then a reverse process (which sometimes does not work) when they leave  the miliary so a steady diet of violent programs and games has to cause, at least somewhat, the same effects in the minds of persons addicted to such things.

 With all of this our society today is very similar to the last days of the Roman Empire during which much of the ruling class and the rest of Roman society became obsessed  with violent gladatorial contests.  We have to expect more Newtowns unless we change as a society.