Killing people: try a gun, they're useful for that
It has been but a few hours since a disaffected German kid stormed through a school, killing over a dozen people before turning the gun on himself.
And here comes one of the first "it was video games wot did it" stories.
I don't play any video games and haven't, really, for about five-odd years. I don't doubt that constantly playing games about slaughtering people / monsters / soldiers / whatever is damaging to one's psychology. But perhaps, just perhaps, given his father owned a dozen firearms, one of which was used in the massacre, there's a deeper cause. What would it mean to you if your parents, your father, owned that many guns? And perhaps it'd be nice if there was some way of stopping some people from owning that many deadly weapons.
The big question is only why he did it because we've already answered the how of it. And yet gun control goes unmentioned in a lot of the media coverage. Is it cynical of me to imagine all the J. J. Jameson style editors of this world calling their writers in for a quick chat about looking for the violent video games angle? It's not like this kid picked up his PS3 and aimed it at his students and teachers.
And here comes one of the first "it was video games wot did it" stories.
I don't play any video games and haven't, really, for about five-odd years. I don't doubt that constantly playing games about slaughtering people / monsters / soldiers / whatever is damaging to one's psychology. But perhaps, just perhaps, given his father owned a dozen firearms, one of which was used in the massacre, there's a deeper cause. What would it mean to you if your parents, your father, owned that many guns? And perhaps it'd be nice if there was some way of stopping some people from owning that many deadly weapons.
The big question is only why he did it because we've already answered the how of it. And yet gun control goes unmentioned in a lot of the media coverage. Is it cynical of me to imagine all the J. J. Jameson style editors of this world calling their writers in for a quick chat about looking for the violent video games angle? It's not like this kid picked up his PS3 and aimed it at his students and teachers.