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Santa Barbara shooter promised "retribution"

May 25, 2014 00:57

Isla Vista, California (CNN) -- After promising a "day of retribution" on YouTube, a heavily armed, mentally disturbed 22-year-old went on a killing spree in a California college town, authorities said ( Read more... )

*trigger warning: sexism, violence against women, california, *trigger warning: suicide, second amendment, guns, rape culture, sexism, *trigger warning: violence, misogyny, gun control

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blackjedii May 25 2014, 11:15:29 UTC

Everyone in Santa Barbara should buy a gun to protect themselves!!

GUNS CAN SAVE YOU FROM GUNS

WE WILL SELL THEM AT A DISCOUNTED RATE!

blackjedii May 25 2014, 11:18:25 UTC

Oh goodie.

It's on CNN right now and instead of talking about entitlement complexes and 'deserving' of girlfriends and general talk of mental health

It's because the guy played violent video games.

Because violent video games are always the easiest scapegoats to use.

qara_isuke May 25 2014, 11:23:05 UTC

Ugh, not that bullshit again.

ginger_maya May 25 2014, 20:40:44 UTC

Seriously?! They're playing that fiddle again? Un-fucking-believable.

stainedfeathers May 25 2014, 21:23:21 UTC

As someone who currently works for a company that designs a violent video game they can just take that scapegoat and shove it up their ass, horns first.

I did find this study interesting linking frustration and aggression: http://psychcentral.com/news/2014/04/08/video-game-frustration-not-content-fosters-aggression/68225.html I remember reading one article mentioning that in one of the studies they changed the interface of the controller so that it made tetris incredibly hard to play (like changing right arrow to left rotate, R1 to right rotate, up arrow to speed up pieces decent, that sort of insanity). I think if someone gave me controls like that to tetris, I'd become a mass of pissed off table flipping real fast, haha.

blackjedii May 25 2014, 22:38:02 UTC

Yeah - I've spent pretty much all day playing Warriors Orochi 3 which is pretty much "kill as many enemy units as yo can" and so far I'm not wanting to go out and whack people with paper fans. I do remember getting really agitated with Skyward Sword at a few points but well... that's when I drop the controller and surf the net or play Tetris for a bit.

But it's easier to blame video games and make soundbytes about it than to confront our gun culture, entitlement culture, misogynist culture, etc.

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