German Police Union Chief Wants Violent Game Ban After Shooting 518
A recent shooting in Germany has raised the ire of many politicians and officials, and they're turning to video games as a scapegoat after it was revealed that the shooter was a fan of Counterstrike and played Far Cry 2 the night before the rampage. First, a major retailer decided to drop mature-rated games altogether, and then the Minister for Social Affairs suggested restricting "addictive games," such as World of Warcraft, to adults only. Despite an unfavorable reaction from gamers and game developers alike, the chief of Germany's national police union has now spoken out against violent games as well, saying, "The world would be no poorer if there were no more killergames."
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Re:Oh common... (Score:4, Funny)
Ban this entartete kunst - it degrades a nation.
Re:Oh common... (Score:5, Funny)
+1, Obscure Godwin-bait.
Re:oblig tasteless meme (Score:3, Funny)
I would say something... (Score:3, Funny)
I would say something about violence in Germany, but I am afraid someone might call Godwin's Law [wikipedia.org].
Re:Correlation? (Score:5, Funny)
Men are a bunch of violent bread eaters?
Re:Correlation? (Score:5, Funny)
No, that only happens 34% of the time, a signification minority and not the majority you claimed.
Re:oblig tasteless meme (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Guns... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Correlation? (Score:5, Funny)
Men are a bunch of violent bread eaters?
Let them eat cake!
Re:Correlation? (Score:2, Funny)
Vönder bread. Helps build dead bodies 12 ways.
Re:I don't mind the new Germany (Score:5, Funny)
Understandable point of view - I'd be against eugenics if I was at the fucking stupid end of the 'tard spectrum.
Re:Correlation? (Score:5, Funny)
1. Some school-shooters are young males.
2. Some school-shooters eat bread.
3. Some bread-eaters play first-person shooters.
4. Some bread-eaters shoot schools.
5. Some breads eat young males.
6. The males of some species eat their own young.
7. Jung was a noted psychologist who might have some insight into why kids shoot other kids at schools.
8. Jung would hesitate to imply correlation and causation wrt fps and school shootings.
9. For that matter, so would Freud, who would instead blame it on unrealized feelings towards the shooter's father.
10. At any rate, did you know that Bread released an album entiteled "Baby I'm-a Want You" in 1972?
11. I'm terrible at logical progressions.
Re:Oh common... (Score:3, Funny)
I'm suddenly left with the image of thousands of people storming germany with light guns shouting PEW PEW.
Re:Sure it would. (Score:5, Funny)
Admit it, you're just an apologist for the necromancy lobby that's trying to push its sick message on our children.
Re:Sure it would. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sure it would. (Score:1, Funny)
Don't forget the porn [biblegateway.com]. Good stuff.
Re:Right. (Score:3, Funny)
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Bravo mods. Bravo.
Re:Sure it would. (Score:5, Funny)
promoting the pawn
As an engineer I am here to hell you that pawns never get promoted.
Re:Oh common... (Score:5, Funny)
I have experienced personally the effect video games have on real life. I actually wound up in hospital and with a criminal record after my last visit to the zoo where I:
no murder before video games (Score:2, Funny)
Before video games were invented, Germans didn't murder people.
(j/k)
Re:Sure it would. (Score:3, Funny)
They don't play those (to any notable extent) in Germany.
I always found that odd. Fat men rolling round in mud fighting over a dead pig and then drinking vast quantities of beer - if you were going to design a game for Germans, that would be it.
Re:Oh common... (Score:1, Funny)
Even simpler, allow everyone to register for a gun, shoot the ones who register, problem solved.
Irony: catchpa is halved, which is roughly what the population will be. Another problem solved.
It's not only violent games (Score:2, Funny)