Montreal Gunman Liked Columbine Game - Forbes.com

And here the stupid people go again. How educated people can honestly sit around and spew garbage about how video games screwed up the kids and images turned the person to violence and all the rest of crap they spit out to the media (who in turn regurgitates it like bad, thinning models) is beyond me.

Growing up, I watched every single bit of violent, scary, crazy movie, tv show and video game. I have not yet attempted to decapitate anyone, hold up a bank, fly off a roof or any other stupid things sane people already no are either wrong or impossible. As Chris Rock asks in one of his routines, "Whatever happened to 'crazy'?"

This artcile, and many reports I have read and watched, constantly brings up the Columbine Massacre game that is available on the Internet. I have not linked to it (Google it yer damn self) and I have not played it myself. And while I was initially disgusted by the whole idea of the game, I had to rethink that position. As I was talking about it with DW last night, I had to remember that several distributions of Linux used to carry a game called "Kill Bill" where a set of Bill Gates figures would run onto the screen and try to replace your computer screens (with SUN, Unix and Linux symbols on them) with a Microsoft Windows symbol. One ran around the screen swatting Bills to death until the next level. It's a fun game. It does not make me want to go out and try to swat Bill to death (as much as the urge is strong for that shitty software he insists on peddling). I am sure he was not amused when it game out and I am sure lots of people would find it it bad taste (along with him being shot in the head in the South Park movie).

The point is, though, no one HAS tried to hurt Bill Gates simply because they played that game. And the people who would have played that game are isolated, loner computer geeks; a co-culture of the types that are committing these heinous crimes. So, if not the games, movies and TV shows, what is the cause? Hmmmm, whatever happened to crazy?!?!?

Oh, and the neighbours commenting on how the kid looks just plays right to what he wrote on his website about people having to stop judging people based on his looks. He wore a mohawk? So what. He wore dark clothing? So what. He was a loner? Hmmm, but really, so what. He behaviour and mood changed, he stuck to himself, had dark thoughts, wrote dark shit on a website and, oh yeah, had a cache load of (*&^%(*&^ weapons in the house? Ding ding ding, we have a winner!!! The parents best not come out and speak because someone will have to ask how a 20-something person lives in your house with a semi-automatic rifle and you don't know it is there. TC could be forty but as long as she was in our house, her space was our domain. Want privacy? Get out.

Society needs to stop blaming people, stop looking for excuses and stop being blind. We need to fix this before the next news story involves one of our own.

Peace.

Montreal Gunman Liked Columbine Game - Forbes.com