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Culture of Violence? Teen Fatally Shoots Friend With Shotgun After Argument Over Paintball Game

Dec. 20, 2012 11:15pm Jason Howerton

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (TheBlaze/AP) – A 16-year-old boy fatally shot his friend with a shotgun after the pair argued over a paintball game and playfully wrestled at the boy’s home in South Dakota, according to an arrest affidavit released Wednesday.

The victim, Dalton Williams of Pierre, was found lying in the entryway of the accused shooter’s house around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday with a gunshot wound to the chest. Paramedics rushed the high school sophomore to a nearby hospital, but he later died from his injuries.

The accused shooter was arrested at the home on a first-degree murder charge and was being held Wednesday in Hughes County, Pierre Police Chief Bob Grandpre said.

The local prosecutor said the teen is being charged as an adult. He has not yet been arraigned or indicted, so The Associated Press is withholding his name because he is a minor. His attorney didn’t immediately return a phone message.

The boys, both 16, were classmates at Riggs High School.

A 16-year-old witness who was hanging out with the boys told detectives that Williams and the other boy began to wrestle around jokingly after arguing about a paintball game.

The accused shooter then retrieved a semi-automatic shotgun, walked into the kitchen area and pointed it at the witness, according to the arrest affidavit.

The witness said he heard the gun click, then saw the accused shooter take a shotgun shell from a drawer, load the gun and point it at him again. The witness said he then heard another click, according to the affidavit.

The witness told police he was trying to leave the house through a sliding glass door when Williams stepped in between him and the accused shooter. The witness told detectives that the gun fired and he observed a splatter, according to the affidavit.

The witness then left the house and called 911.

Grandpre said law enforcement, Pierre School District personnel and mental health professionals are providing support to the school and community.

“We’re continuing the investigation to make sure we understand everything that we believe happened inside the house,” he said Wednesday.

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fgarvin
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 10:06am
What has changed since I was a kid and we had plenty of guns available – The Crotch of America – Hollywood – has polluted our TV babies from birth. BAN HOLLYWOOD and the video game industry. ESPECIALLY the boil on the genitals of Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino !

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One of the Quiet Ones
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 9:41am
I think all kids who shoot kids playing with guns should be tried for 1st degree murder because it is. In this case it sounds like 1st degree murder.

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caveman74
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 9:27am
If I hear culture of violence one more time I am going to puke. If we had a true culture of violence these crimes wouldnt happen. If would be killers knew that if they did these things they would be dragged through the streets and beaten half to death before they were strung up to a tree to slowly hang to death they might think twice about committing their crimes. Each one of my kids first interaction with a real firearm was to kill something (squirrel) and then clean and eat it. For crying out loud people if you are going to own guns show your kids what the end result of using that tool is at an early age so it sticks with them. When my dad did that for me at age 8 I understood that my actions took the life of that cute fuzzy creature and I cried as I buried his bones.

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- jhrusky
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:49pm
  I think instead of “culture of violence” being the problem, desensitizing people to violence IS the problem here. TV show after tv show is full of violence; video games are full of violence.
  
  As a kid, I loved the old scary movies with Bela Lugosi and others … they did scare the heck out of me and I never saw a single drop of blood, never saw a chain saw cut off a persons head, never watched a knife rip into a person’s chest, never saw brain-splatter all over a wall, ad nauseum. Today, kids (and adults, too) flock to theaters to swatch this mindless garbage and really seem to enjoy seeing it. Sure, they know it’s a movie, but if you are exposed to something enough, it becomes the normal.
  
  I don’t know for certain this is the cause of some of our violent problems today, but it certainly makes more sense than “the guns are the cause of this violence” claim.
  
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- integrican
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 5:30pm
  @ Rusky, I never allowed my kids to play paintball or with “air soft” guns. My mindset was, they “normalize” pointing a gun at someone and, in my mind, would make it more likely they may intentionally or unintentionally point a gun at someone. You cannot be shot if a gun is NOT pointed at you. (please people, I do NOT need a lesson in physics and ricochets) When they were ready, at about 10 years old they went through my firearms training, which included them firing many types of firearms, to take the mystery and taboo away from them and allowed them to feel the absolute power they had. If any of my kids see a unattended firearm, they will not be so curious or careless to pick it up and inquisitively handle it. I also believe that if my kids were in a situation that a friend “broke out” a firearm they would escape the situation, hopefully fast enough. In this case, we have another child dead, because of another improperly secured firearm. I also must add that my firearms are secured, even away from my “trained” children, now 16 and 14. My son, 16, actually owns his own restored Mosin-Nagant, but I control it.
  They are charging this kid as an adult, how about charging the adults as well?
  
  As to your point, it is my belief that paintball and airsoft are more of a problem than video games or movies. Hands-on is alway more powerful than textbooks.
  
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- Ballot_Box_Revolution
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 10:13pm
  There is no repercussion for kids actions. We have been regulated into a society of disrespectful people. Do not dare discipline your kids, there are regulations evolved. They do not learn their actions have consequences. We sit here and point fingers at hollywood, video games, guns, why don’t we point our fingers at the man behind the curtain…..our government regulations effect everything in a bad way. Why don’t we see that?? Is it because we believe there HAS TO BE because if we didnt have them parents would abuse their kids??? Well this may be true, but just like guns….the ones that do those kinds of things….well they are still doing it anyways. Child abuse did happen, and still does but it was rare then, and rare now…….And i don’t mean throwing a piece of pizza at your kid, like that one guy who got charged with child abuse for doing that……he was probably frustrated that he couldn’t do anything, without fear of being labeled a child abuser…so he threw his pizza at his kid.
  
  Gov. regulation does more harm in the big picture of things than it helps……why do we still look for it to fix our problems…
  
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666Sucks
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 9:17am
Spot on!

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SanDiegoCountyCitizen
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 8:35am
See! Once again, a semi-automatic “assault-shotgun” is to blame for this crime. If this was just a single shot black powder musket circa 1776, it would have resulted in… (the exact same result)… ok, bad example…
If it wasnt for the NRA…
Oh, never mind! ;-)

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reality based lifeform
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 7:44am
yeah but I think prostitution is illegal in your area

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 7:13am
Oh, we can rip a living baby out of a mother’s womb, but this deserves our attention?

Give me a break?

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womenmakeuphalfthesky
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 6:50am
We the people cannot trust the government (understandably so), but now the government cannot trust us. Is there any middle ground here?

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- WildschweinJager
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 6:57am
  You are full of guilt. What did you do?
  
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- ashestoashes
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 7:24am
  Since this whole thing started..it has reminded me of the last supper..in where Satan entered into Judas and Jesus said to Judas to go and do what he must do..
  Has anyone seen “Fallen” with Denzel Washington..where the spirit of Azazul goes from person to person..On a spiritual level..it seems to work like that..The demons never die..but the ones who don’t know Jesus..Son of the most high God..are susceptible to them..It’s called either a single parent family..or both parents working and letting the Zionist/Communist (Satanic) hollywood.. media.. and video games raise the child..Too few people worry about the spirtual welfare of their children..Maybe because of spiritual negligence in their own lives..Seek the narrow path..for few will find it..
  
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- Landon410
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 9:31am
  the government can’t trust us? you understand the govt is supposed to do what we tell it as “we” are the government, when we the people tell the govt to do something and they don’t…. then those appointment to be in charge should be scared
  
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- Iwillvetalways
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 7:28pm
  When the govt, fears the people you have liberty when the people fear the govt. you have tyrany.
  This is a quote from one of the framers of the constitution. Teach your children, grand children the constitution and the true history of this great nation. There’s a free web site that offers both of these important subjects to anyone, it’s from a college the refuses to except any money from govt, and God only knows how the govt, tried to control this college. It’s Name is Hillsdale College
  
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WildschweinJager
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 6:24am
Cr@ p like this is why the drinking age is 21. Young and dumb.

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- MittensKittens
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 6:39am
  Culture of Violence…how about culture of VICTIM-ISM…culture of IRRESPONSIBILITY…culture of IMMORALITY…
  
  I bet that most animals in this country can’t even recall all 10 commandments…We wonder why all this is happening?
  
  Oh yeah, it’s the guns fault for shooting the kid!
  
  Just like it’s the pencils fault when you fail a test, or the cars fault when you get a ticket, or even it was the rocks fault for Able being killed!
  
  We need serious help, or you can look at it on the bright side of things, like Babylon every civilization comes to an end…THIS IS HISTORIC, WE ARE WITNESSING OURS RIGHT NOW!!!
  
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- WildschweinJager
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 6:43am
  Culture of dummies mostly.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 8:02am
  Yeah that works well because I never see the under 21 crowd drinking…ever. /sarc
  
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- WildschweinJager
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 8:08am
  @Roth
  Yes, stupidity reigns. Legalize dope is already happening. Should lead to great things.
  
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- Tom70
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:29pm
  mittenskittens
  Hit it on the head samack dab in the middle of the problem. No responsibility (someone should do something about that) personal morality,,, not mush of that around anymore. It isn’t a culture of violence its a culture of do it if it feels good to hell with the consequences a lawyer will get you off.
  Hell we have a President who,lies, a Secretary of State who backs out of her responsibility and now a to be appointed creep who lied to a senate sub committee on atrocities in Vietnam who also may have self inflicted a wound that got him out of there.
  Sterling leaders LIke Ms Pelosi, H. Reid, the creepy Congress woman and man from LA. and never forget C. Dodd and B. Fwank.
  
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charleyrocks
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 3:21am
Are you kidding me he got the bullet from a drawer as easy as that! parents have to be charged along with that boy. NO MORE GUNS

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- MisterSarcastic
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 4:22am
  That’s a pipe dream, Charlie. They’re not getting our guns. Well, not without a fight.
  
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- ree758
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 6:36am
  How about no more crappy parents No more irresponsible adults to live in this country you have to be reesponsible
  
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- WildschweinJager
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 6:58am
  @Charley
  The Communist Chinese government, via its state-run media front Xinhua, has called for Americans to be disarmed, arguing that the Sandy Hook school massacre demands “no delay for U.S. gun control.”
  Calls on Obama to exploit the tragedy to push his gun control agenda, adding that his lame duck situation represents “the best position to promote it,” while blaming the National Rifle Association for curtailing previous attempts to regulate firearms in the United States.
  
  The Chinese, Russia, Communist South America and Islamic countries don’t want the USA’s citizens to have guns. Why do you think that is?
  
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- justangry
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 7:07am
  Hey when your murderer in chief stops taking away our rights, calling CHILDREN he murders “collateral damage”, restores due process then we can talk about getting rid of guns. Get it, sport? Lefties are such dumbass hypocrites. They all hated Dubya’s warmongering and civil rights abuses yet their hero makes Bush look like a pacifist and taken us ‘FORWARD’ to pre 1215 in terms of rights yet they remain silent and happily cast their votes for him. I bet you don’t even care if hospitals throw crying babies in the trash can if they’re classified as aborted either? Why don’t you get off your soapbox and admit that lefties have NO REGARD for human life at all?
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 11:41am
  They may get guns but the blueprints & data files along with the machinery will be in private hands,
  
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- justangry
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:35pm
  @Walkabout, I’m going to throw the BS flag on that. I mean you’re right the plans are out there, I just think if they’re coming for your guns you know what you have to do. What do you have to lose? Either way your life is on the line. First it’s the paper trail, then restrictions/licenses, disarmament, then genocide. Time and again that’s what happens. Might as go out with a bang and take a statist or two with you.
  
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welovetheUSA
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:35am
Why are children being tried as adults….?

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welovetheUSA
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:34am
This last generation knows nothing about this country..they have no morals..they donot go to church even a little bit..their parents allowed day cares and schools and the TV to raise these kids..legal drugs are shoved down their throats at a early age..yep……thee kids are what Obamas generation waited and planned for…the child with no common sense..no street smarts..no love of country..no respect for our fellow man and no love of ones self.

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- ree758
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 6:35am
  Good post
  
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- Juicebox
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:58pm
  As a member of the “Y” generation I take offense to this comment. People are individuals not groups and should be held accountable as such. Your detest for my generation would likely put your own generation at fault ( I assume you are either a baby boomer or pre WW2er). In either case your parenting and failure to instill these values in your children led to the failed parents of my generation.
  
  Or…. maybe individuals should take responsibility for themselves and not blame others for shortcomings. Also, all of those things you said I’m not… I in fact am.
  
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fedlibertarian
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:58am
That’s gangnam style for ya

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resme
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:12am
lol… Another video for the masses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UrPvtEVT5sk

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bobfrommosinee
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:42am
Something tells me that a bad joke went terribly wrong.

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- WildschweinJager
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 7:05am
  The “jokingly” wrestling match didn’t go well for the shooter and thus mockery ensued.
  
  Happens every day, it is called “dissing” now, as in “disrespected” me.
  
  People can’t handle disrespect anymore.
  
  Whatever happened to “Sticks and stones can break my bones but names can never hurt me” ?
  
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sparkyrules
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:42am
Jason Howerton is on a roll tonite.Maybe he’ll talk about HIS own experiences with guns and death,instead of posting stories on the Blaze.

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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 8:58am
  Maybe you’ll talk about your work experiences, too. Hold many jobs?
  
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cemerius
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:23am
hmmm was this an “assault shotgun”??? Jack ask teenagers!!

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- banjarmon
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:34am
  Should have settled this with the paint balls!
  
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GuruMeditation
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:15am
Dumb@sses!

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Ragnars Repos
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:10am
“Culture of violence?”

Ummm…geewhiz, I don’t know, Mr. Howerton. But I think millions of teenage boys chose to do something other than kill their friend today.

What are you doing, Blaze? I can’t believe that Mr. Beck would approve of the biased headlines and terminology flying off of your keyboards over there.

At least I would hope not.

You do understand how propaganda works, don’t you, Mr. Howerton/Blaze editors?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

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SendTheMeteors
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:03am
If he didn’t have a shotgun, he could have killed him with a knife or a big stick or hammer or whatever. But for sure, the gun made really easy.

Guns don’t kill people. You know that. People kill people. But you gotta admit guns make it really super easy to kill lots and lots of bad guys quickly. But of course there is always going to be people like this, somebody who “perceived” the victim was a bad guy. Perception is subjective and something that gun owners, and recent purchasers of guns must evaluate in their own way, without regard to external norms or government regulations, such as those that society attempts to impose on them by sanction or force.

But history has shown the general truth that if someone perceives an individual is a bad guy, or that 30 individuals in a confined space are bad guys, they are almost always correct in the fact that they are sinners. Society almost invariably benefits when each unique individual exercises his rights of self-protection and courageously defends his rights, just as the Allies did when fighting their evil foes during WWII.

Sure, we all have different perceptions about who the bad guys are. But in the long run, those perceptions about who the bad guys are are almost always correct and will inevitably lead us toward a better and better society.

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- 00100111
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 10:52am
  I see you tried to type something, but the only thing that came across was the sound of a screaming infant. Can you try again, please?
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 11:15am
  But for sure, the gun made really easy
  ***
  Women are a little more diverse. With or without guns, the physically weaker sex is able to
  poison or run over people they have a beef with
  
  The problem is with people & their relationships. If there is a will there is away.
  
  Nice try dear. Thankyou for playing :)
  
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GoodStuff
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:56pm
One second they’re joking, the next he’s shooting him? Methinks there’s more to this story.

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- child of God
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:16am
  Yeah….there’s something missing. Something had to of set the kid. :/
  
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- integrican
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 5:45pm
  Yeah, He didn’t understand the finality of a real firearm. He had been shooting his friend all afternoon. But, with a “real” gun it is FINAL!!! No arguments, pretty pleases, re-dos, or re-spawns.
  
  I am sure his parents taught him all about it, right after they talked to him about gun safety and put the unsecured firearm under the bed.
  
  I know people want their gun ready at a seconds notice while they sleep, I do too. If that is the case, be sure you lock it when you leave, so your curious or emboldened children won’t kill their friends.
  
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taintso
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:55pm
People are created with and have free will, most use this free will in a positive way for good others use this will for evil regardless of what tool they use. That my friend is fact blaming the tool is myth.

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Diane TX
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:50pm
The teen boys had just bought a shotgun that day at a local gun shop. How is that possible at 16 years old?

http://wtvr.com/2012/12/20/teen-shot-dead-with-shotgun-after-paintball-argument/

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- resme
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:14am
  I owned my first gun at 4, 4-10. :)
  
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- Diane TX
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:46am
  I’ll bet that you didn’t buy that gun by yourself at 4 years old. These 16 year olds purchased the shotgun all by their lonesome’s.
  
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- BasketFullOfPuppies
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:13am
  There are three choices… the dealer either sold them the gun illegally and is about to go to prison (probably) or they got another adult to purchase it for them (a straw purchaser) and if he is found, is about to go to prison (probably). It is also possible that a parent legally purchased the rifle for him.
  
  I say probably, because you just know for sure, what a judge is going to do, these days.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 3:26pm
  The judge is going to do exactly what liberals want him to do.
  
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DadRocked
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:27pm
In my days of wearing a badge and sidearm, 1972-1990, I recall being the first on scene over a fatal knife stabbing between two ‘friends’ over a poker game…

This is ALWAYS an non-understandable act except that it has been happening since man first walked this earth.

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- Diane TX
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:55pm
  The boy that was killed just happened to walk in between the two boys that had been arguing/wrestling with each other.
  
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- DadRocked
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:18am
  Diane – I had seen that but I was responding to the Blaze’s “Culture of Violence?” statement…
  I now see that I was not clear as to that point. Thanks
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 3:19am
  Poker is worth killing over. A person who cheats at poker is without honor and his removal improves the human species.
  
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- MisterSarcastic
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 4:29am
  Chet. How many people have you killed over a poker game?
  
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- Dr Vel
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 4:35am
  Several things bother me about this story, or the writing by the Blaze. The original story says He took home a .22 not a shotgun. Also, the term here “semi auto shotgun”, especially in light of the current hysteria. It appears Blaze is actually working for the anti gun hysteria. Who was it Beck put in charge? Where did they work before? We know. The original local story did not say “semi auto”, an agenda by the author of this story? Glenn Beck, are you monitoring the stories, wording and writing style on your Blaze? Or have the rats come out to play while the master is away? Have you put in charge those who secretly work for the other side? Look at the title, the discrepancies between the words written by the Blaze and the local stories, the fact that there appears to be a thinly veiled agenda by some in Beck’s employ. Are we being deceived? Tragic story for sure, should never have happened. We did not act like this when I was young in the 50′s, no memory of similar incidents even rarely back then. Today it seems many of the youth have this devil may care, life has no value attitude.
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 7:09am
  MisterSarcastic
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- steelpanther
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 4:56pm
  My understanding is that the vast majority of murders are over something completely senseless, two lifelong best friends having a major fight while hanging out over who won the football game, etc.
  
  A recent trend(past few decades I believe) that’s very alarming and called for some laws to be changed, was thrill killing, or killing people you have no connection to, either for the thrill of it, to see what it was like, or more likely gang initiation. Those are also harder to solve.
  
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BasketFullOfPuppies
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:24pm
Want proof that evil is alive and well? Here ya go.

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