17th April 2007, 8:23 PM
I saw him on the news just yesterday. He apparently thinks video game violence is linked directly to the Virginia Tech massacre, though from what I understand, the kid's girlfriend broke up with him. Damn, and Melody thought I was a psycho ex.
Video games don't give me homicidal thoughts. They allow me to release the homicidal thoughts that the world gives me. Don't forget that before the Virginia Tech massacre, the worst school shooting on American soil was in 1966, well before video games became mainstream. That's right, while the debate over the chicken and the egg continues, we can already say with certainty that violence existed some time before video games!
But really, people who blame video game violence for the insecurities of a few looneys are the ones who make my have homicidal thoughts (and only towards those people), not the video games themselves. No, wait, video games totally make me wanna go around collecting gold coins, breaking bricks, squirming through pipes, and jumping on the heads of everyone I encounter! I don't like mushrooms though.
Video games don't give me homicidal thoughts. They allow me to release the homicidal thoughts that the world gives me. Don't forget that before the Virginia Tech massacre, the worst school shooting on American soil was in 1966, well before video games became mainstream. That's right, while the debate over the chicken and the egg continues, we can already say with certainty that violence existed some time before video games!
But really, people who blame video game violence for the insecurities of a few looneys are the ones who make my have homicidal thoughts (and only towards those people), not the video games themselves. No, wait, video games totally make me wanna go around collecting gold coins, breaking bricks, squirming through pipes, and jumping on the heads of everyone I encounter! I don't like mushrooms though.