... in more serious news, a young man ran amok yesterday at his former school in Germany.
And while politicians once again
pretend to
solve the
problem by
banning computer games, Heise Telepolis
published his farewell letter.
Please note the distinct lack of "omg Counter Strike is liek soo cool lol I'm gonna reenact that at my school. bbq"ness in his letter. In fact, there's no mention of any computer games, and the author doesn't appear to have lost his grip on reality either. Instead, he criticises society, consumerism, and the fact that not being a consumer whore makes you a social outcast.
And hardly anyone
bothers to ask where the hell he got those weapons he used in the first place? This is not america, you're not supposed to just have a few weapons lying around your place. Weapons of all kind are supposed to be hard to come by over here. And yet, even though he had a court appointment today regarding illegal weapon possession, it appears that no one bothered to check his place for weapons.
*shurgs*Btw, as to the last piece I linked to, I don't really get the maths. He shot 5 people, injuring them, before killing himself. 37 people were injured in his amok run. Does that mean that 32 people tripped and fell while running away from the scene? I don't think we're talking damages to one's psyche here, because you can be pretty certain that most of the 700 students and teachers there got those ...
Aaaaanyway. Yeah. Let's ban computer games.
By now I'm almost for such a ban, mostly because after the next guy runs amok, people just might notice that
it's not the friggen games' fault!
By then of course it'll be too late. I doubt anyone's going to stand up and support unbanning games then ... d;
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