Second Sandy Hook Shooter Ceasefire Planned For Dec 21st

[Dirge Eterna]

Thats a Saturday so I would be going to the range to do some target practice anyway. Then I will go home and play some Borderlands 2 or Bioshock Infinite. Since they are sci-fi shooters and not based on reality thats ok right? For fucks sake why not blame the idiot and not games for violence.

 

[Kahani]

Last time it did this, more than 3,000 people participated, and stopped playing shooters for a day.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.835580-Steam-Boasts-7-Million-Concurrent-Users-Over-Thanksgiving
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/130219-Microsoft-Says-Youve-Killed-3-Billion-Zombies-So-Far-Go-Kill-More

1.4 million playing Modern Warfare 3 simultaneously. Over 3 billion kills by over a million people in under two weeks. 3000 taking one day off? Yeah, that's totally going to be noticeable. An "event" that has less effect than random variation is no event at all, regardless of whether you agree with its aims or not.

And of course, that's assuming those 3000 are even telling the truth. Players of shooters don't exactly have a history of keeping their word [http://www.destructoid.com/this-is-what-the-modern-warfare-2-boycotters-are-playing-154944.phtml] on these matters, and a Facebook group certainly has no way of monitoring them.