Panasonicyouth's violence Profile

Maybe you've been the victim of vandalism. Perhaps a total stranger assaulted you. Has there ever been an incident in your life where someone you didn't know exhibited violence towards you for no apparent reason? Was the situation was resolved? How did it make you feel?

During a showing of the paranoid horror film, The Signal, two attendees were stabbed in the arm by an unknown third man. Even weirder, as soon as the film resumed playing, the first scene contained a man getting stabbed. Did a movie inspire someone to violence?

[cut=Read more...]The Signal is reigniting... Read More

We're doing something new in QOTD: reusing old questions that were seemingly ignored and igniting old conversations. And today, we're going to discuss police brutality: Is it happening more often or, with the rise of cell phone cameras, are more people simply capturing it?

Do you think that men are persecuted more for beating their female significant other because of a double standard? Or is it just statistically more prevalent that a man will become violent against another women? Do women get away with being violent towards men? Today's QOTD is a very sensitive... Read More

A small grassroots campaign, Students For Concealed Carry On Campus, are lobbying to allow students to carry guns on campus to defend themselves. Do you think this is necessary? Or will it cause more problems?

Holy crap, this is so shocking and depressing.
Linda Stein, a pioneer in New York's punk music scene who later became known as a real estate "broker to the stars," was beaten to death inside her Manhattan apartment, the medical examiner ruled.

Stein's daughter found her body Tuesday night face down... Read More

Some of us aren't the most patient of individuals. Share with us any experience you've had with a physical altercation. Are you first to fight or do you try to avoid that kind of contact at all costs? Let us know.

This is so gross and disgusting.

I decided to blog about this on this fine Wednesday morning because, while extreme, it showcases the racial intolerance that still exists here in the United States. (Despite that that asshole Bill O'Reilly will claim that we've progressed as a nation because black... Read More

Seriously. Look how AMAZINGLY intense this is. Then watch the one dude slap around like a cat and try not to laugh.
On a more serious note, the political atmosphere in Bolivian is pretty damn fascinating. President Morales does appear to be setting up the tenets of a dictatorship; I'm curious... Read More

From a fistfight to a war between nations, can violence solve anything? Is there something valuable in exerting physical force or is it always a lose-lose scenario?

Is it in our nature? Or did we become this way? Video games? Marilyn Manson? Violence in movies? There are many possibilities and we want to know what you think is the cause (or causes).

If you're squeamish, you've been warned.

Pam's House Blend has most of the coverage of a particularly terrifying bout of homophobia in Jamaica. (Not to suggest that other forms of it aren't terrifying.)

I'm not posting the video here, as it's a bit graphic, but click the link and watch... Read More

Ed and John ambushed Dan and I with airsoft guns they bought from Wal Mart. That welt is from a point-blank shot. Ouch.
From my AFI Tour Journal.