So how about that Connecticut Elementary School Shooting; Troll at Your Own Risk

[Niiro]

Sue the school, district goes broke, education suffers, new generation of undereducated delinquents, one shoots up a school in a decade or so.

Repeat.

[Jaybar]

This is just the upper-middle class version of handouts. Everything is working as planned.

[Tajin]

If you can't afford college education for your kids, why are you having kids in the first place anyway?

[Pikarya]

If you can't afford college education for your kids, why are you having kids in the first place anyway?

To get free hand-outs. Bigger tax refunds. The list goes on.

[Tajin]

AH ha, the old welfaroo, got no comeback to that sadly.

[Rhinox]

If you can't afford college education for your kids, why are you having kids in the first place anyway?

This coming from a Mexican. lol

[Boyiee]

Aaaand what if you can afford it, but shit happens and both parents lose their jobs?

Loans/Grants are the only way I could go to College because of fucked up events happening.

[hey]

Aaaand what if you can afford it, but shit happens and both parents lose their jobs?

Loans/Grants are the only way I could go to College because of fucked up events happening.

Then sucks to be you.

[Cail]

the attorney the wanted to do that 100mil lawsuit, withdrew the request

[kuronosan]

the attorney the wanted to do that 100mil lawsuit, withdrew the request

lol

[Cail]

cited new evidence, but didnt say what the evidence was*

[Plow]

Aaaand what if you can afford it, but shit happens and both parents lose their jobs?

Loans/Grants are the only way I could go to College because of fucked up events happening.

That's what 75th trimester abortions are for.

[Pikarya]

http://sandyhookgame.blogspot.ca/

[Tajin]

That was quite slow.

[Hatedregret]

Oh Internet.....

[Judai]

A good old fashioned game burning to satiate the gods.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...t-video-games/

Town in Connecticut Set to Collect, Destroy Violent Video Games

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A group in the town of Southington, Connecticut has organized a drive to collect and destroy violent videogames in response to the recent tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary.

Now, before we go any further, let’s be clear: what happened at Sandy Hook absolutely was a tragedy. It should never have happened, innocent lives and families were destroyed, and the person responsible for that act deserved to pay for what he did (instead of taking the coward’s way out and ending his own life).

That said, it is inevitable that after such events, some look for scapegoats upon which to pin blame. Once again, we find violent video games to be the target of some of that blame—partially because the perpetrator was known to play videogames. (Like, you know, a large amount of the population at this point.)

So, a group calling themselves SouthingtonSOS has organized the “Violent Video Games Return Program”, set to take place on January 12th. According to their press release:

“As people arrive in their cars to turn in their games of violence, they will be offered a gift certificate donated by a member of the Greater Southington Chamber of Commerce as a token of appreciation for their action of responsible citizenship. Violent games turned in will be destroyed and placed in the town dumpster for appropriate permanent disposal.”

To be fair to SouthingtonSOS, they then go on to make the following comment:

“The publication of the first press story today has attracted a significant response which was no surprise to SouthingtonSOS. The group’s action is not intended to be construed as statement declaring that violent video games were the cause of the shocking violence in Newtown on December 14th.

Rather, SouthingtonSOS is saying is that there is ample evidence that violent video games, along with violent media of all kinds, including TV and Movies portraying story after story showing a continuous stream of violence and killing, has contributed to increasing aggressiveness, fear, anxiety and is desensitizing our children to acts of violence including bullying. Social and political commentators, as well as elected officials including the president,are attributing violent crime to many factors including inadequate gun control laws, a culture of violence and a recreational culture of violence.”

Now, I’ll be honest: there is a part of me that wonders about the effects videogames have on us as human beings. However, destroying videogames is not the solution, just like burning books is never the solution to dealing with opinions that one might not care for. Destroying games is an immature and irrational reaction to what may legitimately be a serious problem, and does absolutely nothing to fix that problem.

Education, more communication, better parenting, a fix to society’s outlook on mental and emotional issues and how we deal with them, less access to guns for those who shouldn’t have access to them—that is where we should be putting our focus in the hopes of stopping tragedies such as this. Not destroying games with the intention of sending an ill-conceived message and the reward of a gift certificate.

[Churchill]

I have a copy of Superman 64 that I would donate for free gift certificates

[Cail]

southington is the town over from me. fantastic

[Eurell]

Organizer just wants free games. He will properly dispose of the ones he doesnt already own into his house. Then he will dispose of the rest at a gamestop.

[Ashmada]

Smelling an attention whore.