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[NS_Saint]

I may be just getting old but I blame rap music. I mean there was gangsta rap back when I was a teen, but it was hard to get your hands on cassettes, someone 18 had to buy them and pretty much only people 15 or 16 or older could get their hands on it, nowadays with the internet, elementary aged kids know all the lyrics to every youngboy songs, they watch youtube videos glorifying gun violence nonstop on cellular devices, it inundates their young developing minds.

Maybe I'm just old, but the amount of gun violence glorification and the increase in gun violence seem related to me.

Given the millions of people of all walks of life that listen to rap, you would see 100x more gun violence if that were the cause. It's bad conflict resolution skills mixed with firearms, not a good combination.

 

[SWJJ]

Given the millions of people of all walks of life that listen to rap, you would see 100x more gun violence if that were the cause. It's bad conflict resolution skills mixed with firearms, not a good combination.

but most of these people have a fully developed pre-frontal cortex, which is the part of the brain that processes decision making, reasoning, emotional regulation and understands behavioral consequence. The pre-frontal cortex is the last part of your brain to fully develop and only begins to develop as a teen, and doesn't finish until early to mid-20s.


Some of these kids nowadays are listening to NBA youngboy and knows all the lyrics at 7 and 8 years old. It's literally warping their minds.

The older you are when you start listening to this stuff the less likely you are to have it influence you, it's science.

 

[Clintonrebel]

Guns were glorified way back in silent movies, but we didn’t have this crap going on. Heck, in the 70’s everybody on the street got toy guns for Christmas and we played army all afternoon. But we didn’t grow up and shoot people.

The US has glorified gun culture all over the place, not just rap music. It's on TV, in movies, and video games as well. It's on the nightly news. It's everywhere. It's normalized that people get shot with guns here. It's an overall cultural problem that we are ignoring.

 

[Noble Saint]

Guns were glorified way back in silent movies, but we didn’t have this crap going on. Heck, in the 70’s everybody on the street got toy guns for Christmas and we played army all afternoon. But we didn’t grow up and shoot people.

Its lack of moral and ethical parental guidance more than anything else. The foundation of the family isn’t what it used to be.

 

[Henny78]

3 Things that hold the youth back. 1.Parenting 2. Education 3. The community.

 

[CTSaint]

I may be just getting old but I blame rap music. I mean there was gangsta rap back when I was a teen, but it was hard to get your hands on cassettes, someone 18 had to buy them and pretty much only people 15 or 16 or older could get their hands on it, nowadays with the internet, elementary aged kids know all the lyrics to every youngboy songs, they watch youtube videos glorifying gun violence nonstop on cellular devices, it inundates their young developing minds.

Maybe I'm just old, but the amount of gun violence glorification and the increase in gun violence seem related to me.

Rap music always had an impact on violence and lack of morals . No one does a drive by blasting Mozart, Lenny Kravitz or Garth Brooks. I'm a old school hip hop head but Im not one of those who bury their head in the sand.

 

[LiterOCola]

No one does a drive by blasting Mozart, Lenny Kravitz or Garth Brooks.

It's never too late. Be the change you want to see in the world.

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

I may be just getting old but I blame rap music. I mean there was gangsta rap back when I was a teen, but it was hard to get your hands on cassettes, someone 18 had to buy them and pretty much only people 15 or 16 or older could get their hands on it, nowadays with the internet, elementary aged kids know all the lyrics to every youngboy songs, they watch youtube videos glorifying gun violence nonstop on cellular devices, it inundates their young developing minds.

Maybe I'm just old, but the amount of gun violence glorification and the increase in gun violence seem related to me.

It's a mental health issue. Almost all of these shootings are done by someone on medication that only makes things worse. Guns aren't the problem, insane people are the problem.