Cop Blames Videogames For Sandy Hook Massacre

[Giyguy]

well, what about all the violence on TV? what about the horrible things said on the radio? what about the horrible words in books? what about the horrible things drawn in art?

humanity has done the blame game tango on all of the things I just mentioned, and none of it is valid. neither is this police officer's argument against video games.

"Veteran police officer" does not mean "veteran shrink"

oh, and I bet he doesn't even exist. just another news outlet trying to stir up shit. just like Fox news.

 

[mitchell271]

Videogames cause me to be a mass murderer? Porn creates rapists? And, for the sake of completion, metal makes Satanists? By that reasoning, I'm going to be a murderous, Satan-worshipping rapist. Yes, because an introverted slightly misanthropic and currently depressed 18 year old guy is totally going to become that.

Actually, when I put it that way, it doesn't sound great.

Still, finding games in someone's house is ubiquitous now. If a videogame makes a mass murderer, then literally everyone I know is going to be a mass murderer.

captcha: my bad. Yea, for the first part, a little bit.

 

[Scrythe]

The officer said Lanza learned some of the techniques he used in his attack from videogames, including the "tactical reload" - reloading before your current clip empties - and switching to a handgun when the strap broke on his AR-15 rifle. "Classic police training," he said. "Or something you learn playing kill games."

"These guns, one of them an AR-15, in the hands of a violent, insane gamer. It was like porn to a rapist," the unnamed officer claimed. "They feed on it until they go out and say, enough of the video screen. Now I'm actually going to be a hunter."

First of all, anyone who has every fired a gun in their life doesn't do that "tactical reload" bullshit. A cop should fucking know that. No one in their right mind would empty half of their mag then discard it for a fresh one.

Secondly, considering that the reports show that Lanza used handguns (and only handguns) during the shootings, this highlights the fact that this officer pulled every single bit out of this - especially in regards to the AT-15 - straight from his ass.

Thirdly, how in the hell can this guy just automatically assume intricate, specific details about the incident that only eye-witness or officers directly involved with the investigation can know (i.e. the strap breaking)?

And finally, if we're running the assumption that video games magically turn everyone who plays them into psychotic murderous rapists (or however the fuck he tried to word that), that would mean millions of people around the world are an immediate threat to society. And that includes, if we're sticking the the general term of "gamer", grandmothers and your cat.

 

[Evil Smurf]

So because I play SR3, I'll become a mass murderer and kill with a dildo?

 

[Raige]

A wise man once said, "Youthful paragons of self-control are called nasty names and decide that murder would be the wittiest comeback and then is found to have stood next to a video game at some point in the past. Then the media generally start drooling the usual uninformed questions as to whether wholesome boyish pretend violence has any correlation with the real world. Short answer: No. Long answer: No, and go f--- yourselves, you ignorant scare-mongering cockbags."

This gem of wisdom gives a very deep and emotional connection to every shooting victim.

Also the fact that Lanza's favorite game was DDR. DDR is about dancing. Dancing occurs in clubs. Clubs are mostly in cities. Cities have the most crime; therefore, dancing causes crime. Watch out for this rising trend, folks.
99% of all rapists, killers, pedophiles and kidnappers have all danced.

Stay safe, and remember: If you see a newlywed couple dancing at their wedding, don't talk to them and call the police immediately. They're likely highly aggressive and violent.

 

[unstabLized]

A wise man once said, "Youthful paragons of self-control are called nasty names and decide that murder would be the wittiest comeback and then is found to have stood next to a video game at some point in the past. Then the media generally start drooling the usual uninformed questions as to whether wholesome boyish pretend violence has any correlation with the real world. Short answer: No. Long answer: No, and go f--- yourselves, you ignorant scare-mongering cockbags."

This gem of wisdom gives a very deep and emotional connection to every shooting victim.

Also the fact that Lanza's favorite game was DDR. DDR is about dancing. Dancing occurs in clubs. Clubs are mostly in cities. Cities have the most crime; therefore, dancing causes crime. Watch out for this rising trend, folks.
99% of all rapists, killers, pedophiles and kidnappers have all danced.

Stay safe, and remember: If you see a newlywed couple dancing at their wedding, don't talk to them and call the police immediately. They're likely highly aggressive and violent.

I can tell you're gonna be a good member for this site.. Happy 1st post!

OT: You know, after some guy on the news blamed Starcraft, an RTS game, for the whole thing, I just gave up. This doesn't surprise me one bit. Almost every single word out of this guy's mouth is a bunch of bullshit, so I don't think I should even try and dissect what the hell he's saying. Instead, I'm just going to cry at the amount of stupidity that can come out of a single person.

*Cries in a corner*

 

[kouriichi]

We need to design a game using all of the misconceptions and terrible views the ignorant population portrays them with, so they have legitimate grounds to complain on.

Its a 3rd Person Modern Shooter Hack&Slash Fantasy MMO FPS with 10 year old graphics about Illegal Whaling, running over grandmothers, subjugation of females, tactically assaulting defenseless locations and murdering cops with "Easily Acquirable Assault Rifles" with Tutorials on Bombmaking. End goal of the game is to murder other players for their Points (subjugated women and skulls of aborted children) and then kill yourself so no one can take them from you.

 

[Your Gaffer]

I can't believe I missed this story. The whole thing is obviously a fabrication by the paper, or at least I believe so, but still some very funny, choice quotes there. When they wrote about the "code of the gamer" I was thinking of highlander, you have to take their head to gain their power.
Tripe.

 

[Deimir]

Don't know if anyone is still reading this thread but I'm gonna throw my thoughts out there anyways.

"This was the work of a videogamer, and that it was his intent to put his own name at the very top of that list. They believe that he picked an elementary school because he felt it was a point of least resistance, where he could rack up the greatest number of kills. That's what [the Connecticut police] believe,"

This is going to sound super crass if read wrong, but last I checked, schoolchildren aren't exactly worth a lot of points. Most modern unmodded games don't even have children in them, and they're usually immortal when they are present at all. Even then, someone who's trying to 'score up' is gonna go after targets that are worth more.

"They believe that (Lanza) believed that it was the way to pick up the easiest points. It's why he didn't want to be killed by law enforcement," he continued. "In the code of a gamer, even a deranged gamer like this little bastard, if somebody else kills you, they get your points. They believe that's why he killed himself."

In every competitive online game I've ever played, committing suicide comes with a penalty, ranging from score reduction to longer respawn times. Getting killed by the opponent just happens. If the guy really was a gamer, even a 'deranged gamer,' he wouldn't have eaten his own bullet when he could still potentially 'score' by taking a cop or two with him.

The officer said Lanza learned some of the techniques he used in his attack from videogames, including the "tactical reload" - reloading before your current clip empties - and switching to a handgun when the strap broke on his AR-15 rifle. "Classic police training," he said. "Or something you learn playing kill games."

Reloading before your current clip empties now requires 'techniques?' Here I thought it was common sense. And how would you learn to switch to a pistol because your AR-15 strap broke? Cuz I want that game, sounds like an interesting mechanic that I've never even heard of before.

"These guns, one of them an AR-15, in the hands of a violent, insane gamer. It was like porn to a rapist," the unnamed officer claimed. "They feed on it until they go out and say, enough of the video screen. Now I'm actually going to be a hunter."

I'm glad that the fact someone plays video games is somehow more important to you than the fact they were 'violent, insane' in the first place. I'm kind of curious now, how many people that play CoD/BattleField/Insert FPS Here are also gun owners? Willing to bet it's less than the percentage among the general populace. On the other hand, I'm also willing to bet that all of them have porn.