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POPSMurderer's Mother Blames Videogames for Sons's Actions It is staggering the lengths people will go to lay blame elsewhere. I knew he was playing the video games but we didn't really know what went on in them, how brutal and graphic they were. Indifference to your child's activities cannot be blamed on an entertainment medium. he donned a long dark wig, sunglasses and jacket from the ‘killing kit' he had spent 10 months amassing on eBay. He then headed out with a large hunting knife. and police discovered that, before the murder, Harling spent days on the internet talking to paedophiles and researching serial killers So the internet supplied the research and the materials, where is the outrage against the internet? "Stuart never gave us any reason to think he was violent at all. He was a very normal boy—quiet and reserved. Except that he was playing violent games and the using the internet to research serial killers and purchasing the equipment necessary to mimic them
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POPSEarly Marijuana Use Warning Sign For Gang Violence From the Reason.com blog about: "So is the ONDCP saying that marijuana causes teens to "engage in violent behavior, steal, use other drugs, and join gangs"? No. It is only strongly implying that. It calls early marijuana use "a warning sign for later gang involvement." It calls drug use a "risk factor," meaning that it's correlated with delinquency but does not necessarily contribute to it." The whole thing seems kind of fishy.