German Group Holdling a "Killer Game" Cull

[Andy Chalk]

German Group Holdling a "Killer Game" Cull

A German group calling itself Aktionbundnis Amoklauf Winnenden is calling on people to turn in their violent videogames as part of the Families Against Killer Games event, taking place this Saturday night in Stuttgart.

Formed by families of the victims of the ran aground this summer [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/90185-Surprise-Surprise-Germany-Shooting-Linked-To-Games], so the Action Alliance has gone to Plan B: If you can't ban 'em, burn 'em.

Or at the very least, collect them up in one convenient location, presumably for safe disposal later. Thus, the group is holding the "Familien gegen Killerspiele" [http://www.translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.memo-software.de%2Faaw%2Findex.php%2Faktionen%2F148-familien-gegen-killerspiele&sl=de&tl=en&history_state0=] event on October 17, inviting everyone to come to the State Opera House in Stuttgart, where they can toss their violent videogames into a big bin. People who throw away a game will be entered into a draw for a jersey signed by the German national soccer team.

I'm not going to make the obvious joke about what happened the last time Germany tried something like this but according to GamePolitics [http://gamepolitics.com/2009/10/14/german-group-plans-killer-game-drive] there is an interesting connection to the country's Nazi past: The stylized image of a person throwing a videogame into the trash used in promotional material for the event is a modified version of one used to encourage citizens to do away with the swastika, using a game disc in place of the infamous Nazi symbol.


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[The Kangaroo]

Ugh mental people ruin all our fun.

The stylized image of a person throwing a videogame into the trash used in promotional material for the event is a modified version of one used to encourage citizens to do away with the swastika, using a game disc in place of the infamous Nazi symbol.

So violent video games are the equivalent of fucking Nazi's?

Idiots.

 

[HK_01]

Oh, I am so ashamed of my country for this. This is seriously retarded, why do even the families of the victims themselves search for the easiest and most convenient "solution" to school shootings?
On a side note, I don't think they will be able to fill that bin(except with games nobody wants to play anymore, in order to get that jersey).

 

[mattttherman3]

I call upon gamers in Germany to get off the couch and protest these morons, we shall see who has the greater number of protesters. Video games don't make people kill people, a combination of everything does.

 

[Baby Tea]

But didn't the Nazis do the same thing with book burnings?
It's like an endless loop! They can't help but burn things!

 

[syndicated44]

Heh a book burning but with games instead. That put a smile on my face. On the other hand wow thats just dumb. I really doubt they are gonna get that far. If families are going to bring in their violent games and they are so outspoken to them why do they have them in the first place?

 

[Kollega]

Oh,lookie,some German guys are trying to blame everything on videogames. Again. It is,indeed,not unlike Nazi book burnings.

Really. What's next?

 

[ae86gamer]

I wanna make a joke about this, but I'd probably get suspended. So I'll just say something else instead.

Do they honestly think that people, gamers in particular, will go and give them their games, which they bought? I'm sorry for the families of the victims, but blaming the violence in video games won't solve anything.

 

[zombie711]

germany has always had a problems with video games but who can really blame them. World War 2 games one of the most popular kind of games but nobody wants to be reminded of bad times of their country, that why theres no call of duty vietnam

 

[Steambroom]

Its always the same:
Some fanatic group wants another minority banned, because they dont truly understand them.

 

[Trivun]

Send them to see Gabe Newell. After all, if talking to Valve stopped the L4D boycott, maybe it can do the same here?

 

[Spongebobdickpants]

violent video games dont kill people,people kill people.
but in all seriosity (another semi joke)people have always killed and will always kill each other there have always been psychopaths the most videogames do is give nutcases ideas but a movie could or a book or even the news could do that to.

according to there logic hitler must have been a gta addict lol

 

[El Poncho]

I reckon they should improve the parenting in that area so things like the school shootings won't happen again.(not that i'm saying all the parents are bad parents but they can use the shootings as an example on what could happen if you sit back and watch your kid go crazy).

 

[HK_01]

The funniest thing is that their goal is "to ban videogames that are made to kill people". Yeah, they can't even write their goals correctly.

Remember the LAST time German's had a media burning? And there was that one quote "Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people" which turned out to be true? Hmmmmmmmmmm

OK, we got it(this is not aimed at you directly but at all the people who constantly bring up the book burning in Nazi Germany).

 

[Steelfists]

The Nazis also burned books.

 

[Seifen]

doh mispost

 

[fix-the-spade]

I'm not going to make the obvious joke about what happened the last time Germany tried something like this

Go on, make it, the very fact that they are using an anti you know what symbol to promote an act last popularised by you know what just begs for a joke about it...