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Friday, September 15, 2006
Two Teens Arrested With -- You Guessed It! -- A Stash Of Guns And Bombs "Two 17-year-olds suspected of plotting a shooting spree at their [Wisconsin] high school were obsessed with the mass killings at Columbine High School and had homemade bombs and weapons at their homes, investigators said Friday." According to the Chicago Tribune: "Capt. Lisa Sterr said the two frequently talked about plans to attack the school and have police shoot them. Sterr said police found nine rifles and shotguns, one handgun, about 20 "crudely made" explosive devices, camouflage clothing, gas masks, two-way radios, numerous pellet guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition at Cornell's house." The Houston Chronicle reports: "Sturtz was described as being obsessed with pain and death, and both he and Cornell had been described as being depressed over the last couple of years and hated school, according to Sterr." Sigh. Don't these parents look at their kids, speak to their kids, even notice their kids? How can you be unaware of your child amassing rifles and ammunition, making bombs, and enduring long periods of depression and sorrow? Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by Sharon Secor at 1:53 PM |
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Someone out in the world--staunch in the depths of their crazed basement--went through all the necessary hours of labor and engineering to create a video game. A video game with accelerated violence and massive social gravity.
Is this news? No. Seems like everybody's making a game these days. But some people are making games that just aren't right. The game I'm talking about is called 'Super Columbine Massacre RPG'. It's a role-playing-game in which players re-create the brutal events of the 1999 Colorado high school shootings.
The game's creator, Danny Ledonne, contests that the game is vital to the expansion of social awareness regarding youth, anger, and weapons.
I see it as the furthest step in a proliferation of extreme-content gaming that will only continue to push the boundaries of what its consumers find interesting.
I'm amazed every time I see a commercial for the new XBOX 360 game 'Saint's Row'. This game, like many games today, is an all-out gang war simulation--complete with intricate (and realistic) criminal plots and disgusting screen shots of point-blank murders. It's unbelieveable to me that this game is a product of Bill Gates' company. The same Bill Gates who recently gave $125 million to researchers, doctors, and hospitals in Africa in an attempt to thwart the almost unthinkable spread of malaria. The same Bill Gates who recently resigned his position as "chief software architect" from the most profitable business in America in order to devote his time and energy to philanthropic endeavors. Does it make sense to anyone else that while Gates is pouring over medical journals and heading up global health meetings in Johannesburg, that a mindless game like 'Saint's Row' would be coming down the Microsoft marketing line? If it does, please shed some light for me.
It's no surprise for me each time I hear that there are kids with guns in school. Through today's video games, they simulate not only the use of guns, grenades, and rocket launchers but also acts of stunning violence such as murder and rape. The games are an avenue by which kids can rationalize extreme behavior, thereby enabling themselves, psychologically, to commit such acts in real life.
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