<p>Oh yeah, I forgot all about them. So depressing, these kids. Like a lot of people, I wonder how much TV and video game violence has influenced children like these. Is it just that with the availability/saturation of current mass media, we now hear about such cases more easily, or are kids nowadays becoming more inured to the idea of murder? I remember watching Westerns and cop shows growing up, but when they shot the bad guy, there was never even a speck of blood. Now, so many shows are disturbingly graphic. I’m probably just grasping at straws.</p>