No connection for video games and V-Tech
Jun 22nd, 2007 by admin
The entire video game industry just got lucky. We nearly took a big hit, and the proponents of videoholics nearly got a huge boost. How did this all quietly happen? When and where?
The final Virginia Tech report, made by Health & Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, made no comment on videogames though critics Jack Thompson and Lyndon LaRouche tried had to make the connection. This could have been devastating to the industry to be linked to a deranged mass murderer like the shooter at V-Tech.
There have been constant critiques of video games, usually timed with tragic events or political elections, and the violence some games contain. Now there is the AMA. I think it’s just silly. There is no connection to either of these things in my opinion.
The fact is, sick people do sick things. That’s not the fault of a video game or game manufacturers, but the sick individuals themselves. Looking to find an excuse beyond that is just a way to give lawyers another defense in court that shouldn’t exist, I think.
I’m sure this isn’t over yet, but at least on more hurdle is past.
