Violent video games, porn, weapons everywhere easy to get......

instead of the conversation being about what makes people violent, how about we talk about the effect of these things on the rest of us, the majority who are not violent. The group of people who are rendered weak and frightened and anxious. Those who have to take anti- anxiety medications. Those who go to counseling for lifetimes to simply function.

We, those who are perhaps more sensitive, or more imaginative, or more connected to others in a visceral way are terribly injured by these things that are either real or imagined - through images on screens implanted into our imaginations through media. Our psyches have been polluted and I do not know how to clean mine up, really.

And before chiming in with "just don't watch it" even not watching it we are effected. It is downright scary to just hear or read about these things. And that they are somehow allowed to be considered normal makes it all the worse.

What is society losing by relegating an entire creative and imaginative segment of the population to the hiding zone because the people for whom this stuff is fun do not believe or care that it can hurt anyone. Or that it SHOULD not hurt anyone- it is all imaginative. Or "get a gun yourself to protect yourself!" or other stupid ideas.

I am a person who just seeing a gun sends me into a panic. And I am 56 yr old and perhaps this is not really going to change. And I farm and actually need a gun to put down injured animals sometimes ( I have to ask others to do this and frankly it is a bit embarrassing. But that is the way I am. My neighbors with guns do not make fun of me, they appreciate me, I appreciate them, but I still am afraid of the guns.) Listening to NPR yesterday I heard an interview about this movie where they show the torture that the CIA used....I heard the descriptions and had to work really hard not to burst out crying and have been so sad ever since.

Can we discuss here how all this cruelty and bullying and the depiction of what is sacred to most people (sex) as a violent act terrifies many people and turns them inward and does not allow the wonder and good that they have to be shared with society? That so many people have to take medications just to function, that is how systemic this fear has become for us?

And I think that many people who really cling to the right to own weapons do so because they are scared. Is this from the violence in the media as well?

I am not interested in discussing any amendment rights here. I want to discuss how this feels.