Today's article is courtesy of two entries from Gamepolitics.com on games and violence. First a buddhist monk who uses video games to sate any violent impulses so he can live a life of pacifism. Second, an article about how in Germany a school principle is banning all "killergames" due to an incident where an 18-year old (not a minor and not affected by the rules) went on a killing spree with an axe, knives, and molotov cocktails (obviously they need more GUN control to stop violence). Furthermore the murderer in this case... was not found to have played violent video games. So maybe they should try the opposite and if like the monk he had some violent games he wouldn't have taken his rage out in real life?
I wonder what the school is like because it sounds like the principal is desperately looking for a scapegoat. At least in these times it is so much more difficult to just randomly blame Jews, Gypsies, Turks for things so... video games? It seems like anything to not hold people responsible these days. Just remember the old phrase is true: "Guns don't kill people, People with Guns (and knives but not video games) kill people."
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