Colorado Shooter Has Weird Online Fan Club: Sick or Just Immature?

As a rule I found most people in my boxing club to be anything but idiots and almost all were fairly intelligent people. Boxing was a positive direction of energy and brought out respect and fraternity like nothing else I see today. I suggest that if this kid joined a boxing club he would not be able to become the vindictive hate-monger obsessed with 'movie violence' that he became.

But there is a bizarre unhealthy obsession with violence in the USA. A country I love and a country with more kind and charitable people than any other country I can think of (that I've visited or lived in at least).

To a lot of the world it seems very strange an afternoon broadcast of 'The Shining' will take the time to digitally censor rubber zombie boobs YET have no problem running uncensored explicit axe-murderings of Scatman Caruthers.
Anyways,
That tours of western murders are romanticized is strange. See.. the Sheriffs bullet holes are STILL in the walls to this day.. ahhhh... people taking pictures with the bullet hole behind the bar.
That's a horrible thing man. The cowboy was brutally murdering people. It's a crime scene.
But the USA is one of the friendliest and most giving nations on Earth and there are few other places where I'd feel better about being injured in public - knowing I'd be helped. It's not especially violent.
When I lived in the UK they confiscated everyones guns. Any and all. Most who handed in guns were farmers (often handing in family heirlooms) and the saddest damn thing was WW2 soldiers handing in old German pistols.
Over the next few weeks, just in our area, 2 different seniors were bludgeoned to death in their homes in a string of home invasions on seniors,
and,
in two completely separate incidents in the same month jealous ex-boyfriends/husbands murdered their partners by way of gasoline. Neither died of being lit on fire btw... they died hours later from 'exposure' and horrifically painful slow deaths.
Downtown, a little black girl died from cross-fire when two drug gangs had a shoot-out.

In China, yesterday, not far from my wife's village, a 17 year old, angered about his girlfriend stabbed 14 people - 9 of them to death. (latest report).

Anyways, I see what you are saying but I also suggest if you remove isolated sections of US cities 'urban violence' from the equation the USA has a fairly low crime-rate/violence rate overall.
Not that you can just toss those out... they are part of the numbers. But generally speaking, USA is not that much worse than any other modern countries and certainly a helluva lot better than many too.

Right but professional boxing and amateur boxing are just different versions of the same thing and of course many start amateur before being paid. Of course 'professional wrestling' is a completely different field than amateur wrestling. One is actually a scripted 'stunt show'.
I have some big problems with 'UFC' and how this relates to the subject but I suppose one thing I'd suggest from my own experience or that of family:
But having said all that here is where I find a lot of agreement:
- People who participate in 'combat' sports very often develop a very real respect for violence, controlling themselves, avoiding violence and I think of one sure way to fix your kid from being a bully and a little shlt to other kids? Put him in a boxing/karate/wrestling program (real wrestling).

Somehow that 'harsh reality' fixes that quickly.
- One thing i noticed is that a lot of guys who were in the military will also come back with a whole lot of respect for violence (and avoiding, preventing it). I think its a case of the shocking reality makes them appreciate peace and order all the more. They have a hard time watching 'entertainment violence' after that.

Something that Holmes kid is surely learning now (too late unfortunately) that there is NOTHING romantic or badass about the vast majority of inmates in his prison life. Many are twisted, sad, pathetic, essentially scared, stupid, annoying, disgusting, warped and its just downright ugly, vindictive and full of shame.
I would have wished he was thrown in there before he became fake 'Joker' fantasy sick boy. I think it would have shocked him into reality.

BTW.. I really do believe parents have got to keep an eye on what their kids are absorbing and I mean here is a question:
Was that good to be cheering with your boy as Stone Cold spit on people, kicked McMahon in the balls, poured beer on his face as he writhed in agony and then kicked him in the head?
Dads? Is that right? Will you really be amazed now he is 15 and he is suspended - not for fighting a rival boy - but for sucker-punching the rival in the back of the head and then urinating on the boys face while he was unconscious. and getting his friend to record it and then posted it on YT?
Remember you juiced him with massive cheering and approval when 'Stone Cold' did that. So... who are we to blame now?