German Police Union Chief Wants Violent Game Ban After Shooting

A recent shooting in Germany has raised the ire of many politicians and officials, and they're turning to video games as a scapegoat after it was revealed that the shooter was a fan of Counterstrike and played Far Cry 2 the night before the rampage. First, a major retailer decided to drop mature-rated games altogether, and then the Minister for Social Affairs suggested restricting "addictive games," such as World of Warcraft, to adults only. Despite an unfavorable reaction from gamers and game developers alike, the chief of Germany's national police union has now spoken out against violent games as well, saying, "The world would be no poorer if there were no more killergames."

Comments

So...

[Cornwallis]

I can go to Germany, kill a bunch of people, tell everybody I am modeling myself after the chief of the German National Police and then they'll call for a ban on German National Police Chiefs. Sounds like a plan!

Re:Correlation?

[McGiraf]

Men are a bunch of violent bread eaters?

Re:I don't mind the new Germany

[Hognoxious]

Given a choice between the Germany of today (ban violent video games!) or the Germany of 70 years ago

Understandable point of view - I'd be against eugenics if I was at the fucking stupid end of the 'tard spectrum.

Re:Correlation?

[Red Flayer]

Well, I drew out a Venn diagram, and my conclusions are something like this:

1. Some school-shooters are young males.
2. Some school-shooters eat bread.
3. Some bread-eaters play first-person shooters.
4. Some bread-eaters shoot schools.
5. Some breads eat young males.
6. The males of some species eat their own young.
7. Jung was a noted psychologist who might have some insight into why kids shoot other kids at schools.
8. Jung would hesitate to imply correlation and causation wrt fps and school shootings.
9. For that matter, so would Freud, who would instead blame it on unrealized feelings towards the shooter's father.
10. At any rate, did you know that Bread released an album entiteled "Baby I'm-a Want You" in 1972?
11. I'm terrible at logical progressions.

Re:Sure it would.

[CrashPoint]

Chess: A game in which you are encouraged to send blindly loyal soldiers of varying specialties to their untimely deaths all in the name of protecting a single political figure.

I believe they are "captured." Except for pawns. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to "redeem" one of the pieces with a pawn.

Admit it, you're just an apologist for the necromancy lobby that's trying to push its sick message on our children.

Re:Sure it would.

[MichaelSmith]

promoting the pawn

As an engineer I am here to hell you that pawns never get promoted.

Re:Oh common...

[HeadlessNotAHorseman]

I have experienced personally the effect video games have on real life. I actually wound up in hospital and with a criminal record after my last visit to the zoo where I:

• Jumped on several turtles
• Ate a mushroom
• Ate a flower
• Swam in the shark tank
• Climbed on the roof of the building and jumped to the flagpole in an attempt to steal the flag (I missed)