Resistance angers Church of England

[DavePS3]

The front page of the Toronto Sun, (This city’s version of the National Enquirer) on the day after the Sept. 14 Montreal shooting , printed, “Video Game Killer” in big black letters beside a pic of the nut bar who did the killing and maiming. Once again, this suggests that video games push people into violent behavior. Don’t mean to offend anyone here but frankly my answer to that idiotic parallel is… Horse shit.

If some freak picks up a rifle after playing a game, he was screwed up to begin with and for whatever reason… his dad beat him, his mom was a hooker, he was molested by an uncle... whatever, he hates everyone and wants revenge. It’s not the damn video game that puts the ideas into his head, those ideas were there much earlier and believe me, if it wasn’t some first person shooter that helped make the final decision to traipse around with an AK-47, it’d be something else—some monkey cuts him off on the freeway, he gets overcharged on his cable bill or he gets laughed at for wearing his melodramatic trench coat outfit. Video games have nothing to do with it. I love first person shooters but I think I know fantasy from reality and no matter how much I might get yelled at by some fat bastard in a bar, I’m not about to return with my body wired with explosives and make everybody pay for making me cry into my pillow every night. Not to mention the fact that with some proper gun control, any given idiot with a penchant for mass slaughter would find things a tad more difficult to accomplish with just an aluminum baseball bat.

A loner is a loner for certain reasons. Usually ostracized for dress, personality or funk… a host of things. But it’s all in how we handle being laughed at, singled out, sneered at or teased in the schoolyard and that ability to cope, the basic ability to tell right from wrong and roll with life’s punches comes solely from how you’re raised. It starts in the home. Blame the negligent Crack moms, the abusive fathers or the child molesters but don’t blame the frigging games. If your clock’s missing a few cogs... if everyone else on the planet thinks you’re weird, you are. Get help.