The writer of this article is a fucking moron, who blames violent games for previous shootings that had nothing to do with them, and erroneously says Call of Duty was played by the Columbine Shooters, when that's Impossible (Call of duty wasn't out in 1999 you fucking idiot! Do your fucking research!) And he prefaces it by saying he isn't blaming shootings on games but then implies it's the games fault by saying there is a "connection" between Call of Duty for Columbine and Sandy hook.
First of all you fucking idiot, Columbine was a BOTCHED TERRORIST Attack, done to kill as many a cops as possible to get revenge for a police rape in an arrest for bomb making materials. It had NOTHING to do with games. We don't even know the reason Adam Lanza shot up Sandy Hook, but I don't think It was video games. Video games simply don't have levels where you can get the idea to mass murder a school filled with toddlers and teachers. There are NO games featuring that idea so fuck off.
Idiots like this piss me off. One quote in particular REALLY pisses me off...
"Is on-screen violence pushing some already-troubled problem child over the brink so that gaming companies can make another billion and if so is that okay? Is it okay that gaming companies make their billions by enabling us to take out our aggressions and talk about our “kills” in school or at work the next day?"
No it's not. And it's not the video game's fault if a nutjob goes out and kills people after he plays a video game. He's fucking insane. Video games have nothing to do with things like this. And talking about kills in work is fine. Fuck off.
What really pisses me off is that he quotes Jonathan Blowhard....
“The lesson of E3: Game studios are working very hard to build fantasies about how cool it is to be a mass murderer.”
This is complete BS. There is a HUGE difference between mass murder and the average combat in a video game. None of the trailers show mass murder. Mass murder involves "innocent", "defenseless" people. Not characters in a video game that fight back. It might be not so obvious to idiots like Kip here but 99% of targets in video games fight back. That doesn't count as murder you idiot.
People like this piss me off. The stretch the truth to bash violent games, something they hate, after a killing that had nothing to do with them. The Orlando shooter called 911 and said "I did it for Isis". That's proof it had nothing to do with video games. Stop being an idiot.
What really pisses me off is that shoddy Journalism like this is being peddled by idiots like these:
Yes, a PC Repair place is now enabling bashing of violent games after a shooting. Fuck them.
EDIT : The Following Twits are Fucking Spreading a Moral Panic by spreading the same article under the hashtag #technology
Here are more Bots or posters posting the same article I found later on last night/tonight
There are also multiple clones of this article online, just like the last shitty article that followed the UCC Shooting.
http://www.gamerculture.com/lifestyle/can-we-talk-about-video-game-violence-winbeta/
http://www.allcom.se/it-nyheter/can-we-talk-about-video-game-violence/
http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f337/can-we-talk-about-video-game-violence-1140554.html
