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Old 12-17-2012, 09:12 AM
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The shooting was bad enough, but what I heard yesterday morning, makes for even MORE concern.

I saw an interview with a Lt Colonel who has spent much of his career teaching Psychology at West Point. I got the idea that part of his curriculum had to do with things like desensitization in combat and the stresses of combat and things such as that.

He was VERY passionate and what he had to say made me pray that he is wrong, but he seems like someone who knows what he's talking about. He said that due to the desensitization toward killing that is becoming more prevalant by video games and other forces in society, that what we saw at Sandy Hook and the other shootings in recent years is just the beginning and that this sort of thing will be accelerating dramatically.

We all need to hope that this guy is WRONG, but I'm afraid he might be right.
It wasn't David Grossman was it?

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If so, I'm a little surprised you never heard of him, being career Army.

I did a Marine Corps League "Toys for Tots" M/C run Saturday and I asked a lot of guys the same question:
"Can you give me one reason to have hope that the decline in civility in American society will be reversed?"
Not one response did I receive.

edit: I read On Killing some years ago. I believe he's updated it for the changes in civil society. He also penned: Of Sheep, Wolves and Sheep dogs.
http://www.gleamingedge.com/mirrors/onsheepwolvesandsheepdogs.html
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