News Media Links Shooting To Games

Via Kotaku, an MSNBC report entitled School shooter followed video game-like 'script'. If you're going to scapegoat in the wake of a tragedy, who better than the entertainment industry? From the article: "What I mean by 'a script' is that when you look at popular culture, movies, video games, you will see this kind of "shoot 'em" pathway running through many of them. It's not an original idea of his; it's something that kids are exposed to by the millions." Given that another story on the MSNBC site states that the suspect talked about shooting people before the incident, it seems like there is more than enough finger pointing to go around.

Comments

Re:RTFA, Not The Fucking Headline

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure because everyone scanning the site will do just that and not leave with that headline burned in their head. Thats what headlines are...sensationalistic taglines that are shaped to current trends. So for the 90% of people who dont read or skim thae article it still says games did it.

Weise's LiveJournal and Flash Animation

[Caseyscrib]

His LiveJournal can be found here, and his user info with a list of friends is here.

The article on thesmokinggun.com that MSNBC mentions is here, which includes an archived link to the flash clip Weise made about shooting people. Also, his band's message board was located at http://6sik6.proboards25.com/, but it has since been taken down. No Google Cache of it either.

Kind of scary stuff... for the most part he seemed like a fairly normal kid.

Re:From swords to frags

[PitaBred]

...how in the hell did this get modded insightful? Books were very, very rare until Gutenberg came along, and that was well after gunpowder was running strong killing people and making pretty colors in the sky. Besides, not like executions and other violence was public back then. It was an event to go watch someone get their head chopped off. Not to mention that most people knew what slaughtering an animal was like. They knew what happened, they had other outlets for their violence. What we have is a relatively new trend because people are so sheltered from the processes that keep them alive, and seem to have this mindset that rules will fix everything.