This article was originally published on Gaming Horizon, GameBump's predecessor.
On Monday, April 16th, the deadliest shooting in American history took place at Virginia Tech. In the handful of days since this tragedy, people across the nation and world are trying to make sense of it, to rationalize it, to recover from it, or to forget it. A few people, though, are missing no opportunity to exploit human suffering and death to increase their exposure or legitimize their own self-satisfying crusades.Personally, since I heard about the shooting on Monday I've had my head between my legs in hopes that if I ignored the bad things in the world they'd go away. This was all going well enough, until a few voices rose above the blur of blame-this-blame-that talking heads and dragged me to the surface.
People have been blaming video games for the world's problems for years now, so it's become hard to care or even notice when the latest demagogue wiggles his way into the spotlight long enough to do so. This situation, however, is different. This shooting has affected almost everyone in the country in some way, and people are actually looking for answers; so when Jack Thompson and Phil McGraw spout off their ill-conceived garbage about video games being at blame for a psychopath's murder of over 30 students and faculty members, people might just listen.
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