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ScreamingMemales t1_j5ez55a wrote

This stuff happened before. Now we have the news that picks up any negative event no matter how small.

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Thegarbagegamer97 t1_j5ezq7f wrote

Guess i do tend to forget, when the big cash cow stories dry up, the media fights for whatever tidbits of shock factor they can, still, feels likes the past few years somethings been changing. Either we are getting more careless with our firearm safety, or we are getting worse at dealing with issues people have… hell maybe its both.

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Murky_Conflict3737 t1_j5fc62u wrote

A podcast I listen to, Small Town Murder, featured a premium episode where they read crime articles from pre-1920s newspapers. One was from the 1890s and was about how a ten-year-old boy shot and killed his father after the man had whipped him.

Wikipedia also has links to a stories about pre-20th century school shootings. In one case, a kid’s older brother came to the schoolhouse and killed the teacher for hitting his younger sibling the day before (whenever I hear anyone talking about the good ol days of spanking kids into good behavior, I think of these two cases lol).

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Thegarbagegamer97 t1_j5fe2vw wrote

Not a proponent of spanking or anything of the sort, just telling an experience here. Came from a household with two parents, who both had conflicting views on discipline. My father came from a family where spanking/beating with a belt was the gold standard. No time outs, no warnings, nothing. My mother from a family where spanking/switch was for an absolute last resort, where you did something so bad that time outs or grounding wouldn’t cut it. Now in current times, my father is a man with much more… aggressive.. views on how one should respond to things such as crimes, and is also quite emotionally stunted. My mother is a measured, reasonable, compassionate person. Spanking isn’t something id ever say is “good”, but a lot of the times where you hear about kids having marks or injuries from it, thats from a parent that violates two rules. Never make it the first choice, and never discipline when you’re angry. (Side note, the few times we ever were spanked, my mother made sure she did it. Father worked in a trade and he had the strength to prove it)

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cgg419 t1_j5h45nc wrote

Love that podcast, and Crime in Sports.

Is the premium worth it, in your opinion?

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Murky_Conflict3737 t1_j5hk3jt wrote

It depends. Sometimes they have good premium episodes where they delve into more well known cases. Those are interesting (I really want to hear them discuss the Murdaugh case). But some of the CIS ones aren’t as interesting. That’s probably more me as I don’t really follow sports.

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cgg419 t1_j5hreka wrote

I do follow sports, but I like Small Town Murder better too. I love CIS when I know who it is.

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CharleyNobody t1_j5ftki1 wrote

I went to high school with Dawn DeFeo whose brother Butch killed her and the rest of her family while they slept. It was so unusual at the time that it made national headlines and stayed front page news in our local newspapers for months. That was even before the skanky George & Kathy Lutz moved in to moneygrub off a family tragedy. They wrote the ghoulishly moronic book Amityville Horror, full of green ooze, red pig eyes and other nonsense. Morons ate it up and it launched a Hollywood franchise.

Nowadays family murders happen so often they’re just a blurb on the side of a page. “Teen kills mom, dad, sibs” is all you get. “Dad mows down family,” “Despondent parent drives family off cliff into ocean.”

In 1970s such murders were so rare it was believed something supernatural must have occurred.

Anyway, Dawn was a nice kid. She didn’t deserve for her death to become mass entertainment for stupid twats.

PS - my husband later had a client who lived in the house years after the murders took place. Nothing unusual ever happened in the house and it was a really lovely place.

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recess_chemist t1_j5fobtb wrote

I've worked with/support people reentering the work force after long stints in prison. I can assure you that there has never been a shortage of these types of events. Just more connected and more news coverage these days.

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OnlyHuman1073 t1_j5foagz wrote

I am sure this stuff always happened, I would like to read a study on it and social media’s influence of isolation and access to killing tools.

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