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D&D Blamed For Stabbing Deaths
Grymalkin writes "A man is in custody for allegedly stabbing 3 people to death in King of Prussia, PA last week. Now it appears that the district attorney believes there may be a link between the murders and the Dungeons and Dragons RPG. From the article: 'I mean, you have many, many stab wounds and those 'Dungeons and Dragons' fantasy games involve swords and knives and daggers and things of that nature. There may be a connection but I can't say for sure.'" Wow. There are a lot more D&D players than I thought there were, what with all the stabbings and all.
All vehicular homicides can be connected to Nascar, right?
Someone's gonna post these, might as well get it out of the way:
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"What about: Fists and feet Piano Wire Strangulation/Suffocation Drowning Starvation Food poisoning"
Well, if they looked at your hard-drive, they'd probably assume porn.
"Derp de derp."
I have been trying to institute a ban on D&D in my hometown for many years now, but the nerds just wouldn't listen. I guess one of them finally snapped and went on a murderous rage fuelled by satan and cheetos.
Making the moon less necessary since 1998.
Everyone knows that D&D only caused murders in the 1980s.
In the 1990s, it was metal music.
In the post-2000 world, Grand Theft Auto is the cause of all crime.
Yeah, didn't you know? It's near "Prince of Persia, PA"
If you are too lazy to google for information and such.
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Mike: Hey, Joe?
Joe: Yeah Mike?
Mike: Someone just got stabbed.
Joe: Hmmm.... we should probably blame it on video games.
Mike: Nah, I don't think so. Everyone else is doing that. And some people say there's no proof?
Joe: Well, how about D&D? That's kinda like video games, and it's based on the occult, and Satan is bad.
Mike: Yeah, that might work. Let's go with that.
Fortunately, good old religion never causes people to do strange things like this. If we must restrict by age or ban entirely games, movies and pencil and paper RPGs, then we must ban bibles of every religion as well.
There are countless recent events where people have directly claimed that religion and/or religious material lead them to the violent acts they took.
There's the guy who held a gun store up by knife point so he could use the stolen gun to go rescule Terri Schaivo. He said, to the gun store owner, that god was with him and that he was either with god or against him in rescuing Terri.
Then there's all the people in the last couple of years who have chopped off their children's arms and legs, filled a little girl's stomach full of bleach and then sat on her until she died (for having sex), stoned a girl to death, chained a girl to a treat as punishment for sex and that guy who offed his wife, child and himself because he believed the end is near. All in the name of religion.
Any time some conservative or religious nutcase tries to tell you all of these other things must be controlled, suggest to him that the same applies to his own propaganda and that he should settle up his own house before hypocritically lobbing grenades into the camp of others.
I guess it's true that D&D is making a comeback, after all, it's been years since anyone blamed the game for anything.
Unless of course he's blaming it on the D&D xbox game...
Or of course the D&D movie. I can see that causing someone to kill.
In the 2010's Scrabble will be the cause of all sorts of crime.
District attorney Duce Dastor: I mean, we got this ransom note, and those 'Scrabble' games involve words and letters and vowels and things of that nature. There may be a connection but I can't say for sure.
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