Hey folks
oh boy , i already asked myself if soemone here would post this. Thisis just one symptome of a hysterical witchhunt german video gamers , paintball and lasertag players had to witness throughout the last years
so let me use this thread to let off some steam and give you some insight :
first let me say that i completely agree with anything you guys said so far , especially Aidan K speaks my mind: Violence is a part of the human psyche and releasing some stress or frustration in a controlled setting in a - let´s say physical way, shall we? - always seemed healthy to me : boxing , paintball, martial arts, video games ,... ther are dozends of sports/hobbies that can be thought of as violent. Just take a look at a typical rugby, hockey, or football game. Sometimes a soccer game here in germany looks pretty much like war to me (btw: i hate soccer)
of cause all of these thing are seen as \"normal\" by the majority -and thsi is t really the poitn, because the majority is allo the politicaians care about
In the last decade videogames and paintball have become more and more popular and of cause like with anything new the media and most politicians of germany´s big conservative party had a new target to blame everytime kids showed violent behaviour. And of cause it´s conveninent...
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we had two school shootings during the last years , both terrible and both times people were asking why. The second one was this year and when details about the gunman were published it became pretty obvious that the guy had an unhealthy affecdtion for guns: His dad was a member of a gun club and took his son with him, he had 16 guns in his house, and in direct violations of the very strict laws about gun control here , his dad kept a revolver and the ammo not in a safe with the rest of his rifles but in a unlocked wardrobe in his sleeping room. Add the the fact that the gunman kept dozends of soft air rifles in his room and spent his free time either sooting with airrifles or at the gun club , you get some pieces of the picture. Of cause i doubt we will ever find out what finally send him over the edge , but when the police found a copy of counterstrike on his hard drive , german politicians had the answer: killergames !
Now you might ask yourself what a killergame is ? According to our all - knowing politicians it ´s a game that has the sole purpose of training gunmen and showing people how to kill little schoolgirls - no , not kidding according to politicians the player shoots schoolgirls in counterstrike. Of cause these are the same people who admit in interviews that they do not know how to use google....
I don´t wanna tell you all the lies and statements german politician tell or believe., just a few examples:
- gamer who play these games ar e just as bad as pedophiles and drug addicts
- the players rapes and tortures in battlefield 1942
- a gamer can practice shooting by playing counterstrike ( imagine trying to handle a heavy assault weapon like an AK47 after playing counterstrike - my best friend was in the army , this tought makes him laugh every single time )
and so on, you get the idea. To make matters whorse the media jumped on the train from the very beginning and lied and manipulated it´s older viewers in believing this crap.
In concludion: Instead of trying to understand what happened and maybe sending guidance councelors to school (which would cost money they have to give to the industry and the banks ) the german politicians have found a cheap, convienent way of calming their voters and make it look like their doing soemthing to prveent school shootings - just bann everything that looks violent.
