And on another note, who are the 6 morons that thumbs upped Marty’s comment?

BTW, rape and sexual assaults have risen almost exactly at the same rate as acceptance of those crimes as not being the fault of the victim has risen. In other words: Its a reporting issue, now that we do not brand victims as ‘deserving’ of what happened, more victims are willing to come forward. Furthermore, more laws are on the books for those crimes today than were in the past(for instance, it is now illegal to rape your wife, something that did not used to be the case), resulting in more ‘crimes’ committed.

Facts, you know. As opposed to anecdotes and your desire to connect dots that fit your personal view of the world.

You are confusing the crack epidemic and its off the wall murder rates that ran its course after it obliterated most major inner cities in the late eighties and nineties with a well known government policy instituted by the government after studies had shown the war images shown on TV news nightly during the Viet Nam War had contributed to lack of support for the war effort. The best recruiting tool ever developed for the armed services are these games. Just look at these games and titles and then take a trip to any recruitment office and you will see the big picture.
Been to Columbine lately?
Here is my profile of our latest disinfranchised and misunderstood youthful murderer
Emotionally stunted and angry at the world
More likely a loner who lived in a game or online fantasy world where revenge against perceived wrongs were met with swift retribution and death.
At some point or trigger decided to act out fantasy.
I don’t believe for one minute these games or shows effect the general population and most people who view shoot em up westerns or violent cop shows are not going out acting on their impulses or fantasies. The fact remains over time without any supervision or checks ,,,behaviors are affected.
While this not scientific…Women portrayed as ho’s and sexual tools in the rap genre for past twenty years would beg to differ. Maybe that is why rape and sexual assaults are at all time highs in this country. Food for thought.

Person 1: I want to see “the Adventures of Milo and Otis II” and some jerk had a baby that was screaming that whole time”.
Person 2: Drag. It sure is hot today.

That’s it. And in an event where 12 people are brutally murdered by a psychopath, the presence of an infant at the theater is such so impossibly irrelevant to anything, it’s shocking *anything at all* was said about it, much less all of this. (Speaking of the judgements being made at the parents, not about the baby’s injuries, which is horrific).

Your lack of both self-awareness and compassion is disturbing.

Hi. How are you doing? A couple of questions:

1. Why are you so offended by a highly-opinionated, sports themed blogger posting a non-baseball story that would in fact interest roughly of his readers. I clicked on this, not because it would be the best source for news on this subject, but because I was generally interested in what Craig had to say about it. Furthermore, I find most of the commentors on here provide interesting, insightful opinions on a variety of topics, even when I disagree. That’s why I clicked.
…why did you?

2. What is the point of this? I will comment if I disagree, agree strongly or generally feel I have anything witty or funny to add (it often turns out I don’t and I just think I do). What I, and most other commenters don’t do is post to say that the article itself shouldn’t exist. What is the point of that other than being a waste of time? If you didn’t care what Craig had to say on this subject, why did you click? And then burn lean tissue typing two separate comments saying you don’t care? It’s really strange.

And I think Craig is fine with criticism. He just pointed out that you were a moron…something we can all agree on.