'Columbine RPG' Creator Discusses the Dawson Shooting

Back in May, Brian Crecente of Kotaku and the Rocky Mountain News had a chat with the maker of the 'Columbine RPG'. Today, he talks again with game-maker Danny LeDonne about possible connections between his game and the Dawson shooting. From the article: "My very first reaction, frankly, was to head to my toilet bowl and throw up. I knew what was in the works and I knew the next week would be spent keeping my head above water while the press tried to bury me with guilt-laden questions and implications of complicity in murder. I also knew that this was no time to fold or get weak-kneed. I made a game. I believed in it. Now it was time to defend it. No one would do that except me."

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The shooters are victims too!

[rubberbando]

I'm sure many of slashdotters can relate to this.

High school is a cruel place. Its not easy being an outcast there. People will beat you up just because they don't like the way you dress, walk, or talk or for not having 'popular kid' interests/not being trendy. People will break or steal your belongings for the same reasons. Then when you call for help, your parents don't care as they are too busy with their selves. Your teachers/principals don't care because the bullies are star athletes that bring money into the school. And in some small towns like the one I grew up in, the police don't care because one of those bullies is the sheriff's son.

I not saying going on a shooting rampage is the answer but I guess sometimes a person has to start fighting back.

Unfortunately, guns tend to give instant courage to the meek and give the true victim what appears to them as an easy out....

-R

Re:The shooters are victims too!

[StikyPad]

Hey guy, did you even read the GP? He said that the actions were wrong, but people that should stand up for themselves. He's exactly right, and if they *had* stood up for themselves instead of bottling up their anger for years, it probably wouldn't have reached such a dramatic climax.

By the way, we don't care who you're dating or how she's doing, and when she dumps you in a few months, not only will you no longer care about Columbine, but if you're truely as sensitive as you appear, you'll probably be so crushed that you'll wish she hadn't been one of the survivors, so ease up on the soapbox speeches.