Gunman kills 32 on campus!

goddamn videogames !!!!

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goddamn videogames !!!!

Sorry KoKo5oVaR you'r to late, our favorite person have allready blamed them: http://kotaku.com/gaming/virginia-tech/ ... 252702.php

Its nothing to discuss really, whats been done have been done and we cannot undo it.

One of the sad things about this is that people all around the world (atleast in the west) get this as world news while a massacre in some Afrikan city or some car bomb in Iraq goes by unnoticed.

Oh well, a sad day for America, a good day for Jack T

Read it yesterday. This is really making me worry about our western society, we appear to be getting sick and selfdestructive.. If these things will continue then we might have allready reached the top-hight of our advanced culture.

Sad news..

this is so scary..

jesus...

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Jack should be shot for taking the opportunity to leech off a tragedy to push his own agenda

QFT, fucking moron.

I was shocked at the bodycount but unsurprised as well. It made me laugh on the news whereby the police wondered how he managed to evade them for the second attack, you've only got to look at the size of the campas and layout to see that anyone could have got past them undetected.

Heard on the radio today that a few exchange students from England were also caught up in the chaos, tragic. Of course you'd think that as a result of such a horrendous incident that the authorities would finally question and debate America's rights to bare arms, but I doubt very much that anything will change in that respect.

This is horrible indeed. I can't fucking believe that students weren't sent to home after the first shootings either, they would definately do it here in finland, how stupid is that? Nice bunch of lives could've been saved by doing the wisest thing, maybe the ones doing all the decisions likes to live on the edge or something.

So what's the count up to? 5 school shootings in the past year or something like that?

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Of course you'd think that as a result of such a horrendous incident that the authorities would finally question and debate America's rights to bare arms, but I doubt very much that anything will change in that respect.

I used to believe that the right to bear arms was a questionable one at best, but when you actually look at the facts, you'll find that people who legally own guns and passed all the tests to get them are not the people going around shooting people all the time. It's not very often that a criminal legally buys a gun. The country is already flooded with weapons, and by taking away the guns from responsible gun owners who legally acquired their weapons all you're doing is disarming people who aren't doing anything wrong. States that have concealed carry laws are far less attractive to criminal activity because when every other person might just be carrying a gun you're hardly going to try anything because you'll get shot for your trouble. If you know that nobody is allowed to carry a gun about their person or in their homes then it gives you and your illegal weapon a license to do whatever the hell you want without fear of getting shot by civilians.

What the authorities should really do is try and reduce the amount of illegal guns, and introduce better laws and means of upholding laws that enforce people to secure their weapons safely in their homes, so people cannot steal them and sell them on, or kids can't get hold of them simply by opening a cupboard or looking in a shoebox.

If half the students had guns in their dorms then that punk-ass kid wouldn't have got very far after his first shot.

I'm not encouraging the arming of schoolchildren but the usual knee-jerk reaction is not always the best one, and there's always people behind the emotion who will attempt to exploit their own agenda - people far more dangerous and persuasive than JT.

I was reading an article about it at work earlier and was mildly disturbed.

It was the in-depth bits that I didn't like, such as a small group managing to survive in one classroom by playing dead. However, the gunman heard them talking minutes later and tried to come back and finish the job, except they held the door shut. This didn't stop him trying to butcher them by shooting through the door, though.

What a nutter, and what a tragic waste of life. Anyone who says anything to raise a joke regarding this situation deserves to be one of the victims.

Why would anyone want to make a joke about this..?

You obviously don't visit too many forums.

Maybe we will have a sequel to this http://www.columbinegame.com/

I’ve got to support them on saying Thompson is an asshole but God damn Kotaku is a stupid website.

Yeah, Kotaku has absolutely become an embarrassment of a site. If a post isn't taking things completely out of context to create controversy or blatantly attempting to provoke a comment backlash by insulting someone or something, then it's probably the profanity-filled report of some ranting, outrageous dick who thinks he sounds really intelligent (case in point: link in this thread).

It has some good news, I don't care to follow any of the user comments I mainly just go there for the stories.

Good to see Rush Libaugh voicing against "video games are to blame"

http://kotaku.com/gaming/rush-limbaugh/ ... 253132.php

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Rush Limbaugh Said:But how many people are playing video games out there? How many millions of people play video games, and how many millions of people have guns?

If you start blaming the video games, you may as well demand video game control because it's the same thing when you start trying to blame guns for this.

this is a seriously funny comment from games&politics:

# CFTF Says:

April 17th, 2007 at 6:01 am

The first school shooting in American history was 1966. Predates videogames.

Apparently, the gunman was a Chinese national. As someone studying in China right now, the most overwhelmingly popular games are RTS/MMOs/crazy Chinese games… nary a FPS in sight. And they’re not exactly known for playing console games.

If he’d been running around campus with a sword yelling “FOR THE HORDE!” every time he cut someone down? You might have a case. Here? Not so much.

While I agree with your point about gun control Rick, I dont think that students on campus having guns is as good as an idea as you might think. When police respond there is a greater chance of them shooting an innocent person. If 5 people have guns and 1 of them is a killer then not only can you get some deadly cross fire you can get innocent people killed when police come in to handle the situation.

besides that, you can be CERTAIN that these guns would not be used responsibly, solely for self-protection in case of some guy trying to start a massacre... think about it. a fight breaks out, somebody pulls out their gun and blasts the other guy and then says "OH BUT IT WAS SELF PROTECTION. ITS IN THE LAW!"

if you make it legal to walk around with a gun on campus, you'll hear about school shootings more often i can promise you that...when people get into a rage they often don't think, and a short-term overreaction might lead to simply pulling out the gun and killing someone. so yeah, you might not have 30 dead in a single day maybe.... but spread out across a year, i think the number would be much higher than that...