The human race sucks sometimes.

I'm not sure what gets into people sometimes.  I'm not going to go into details as you can get off your duff and read the article.

I'm also not going to sit here and commiserate about how the media will try to link this to gaming as a whole.  This simply isn't the time.

The fact is that six people were slaughtered, and the reason is the most petty one can possibly imagine.  An Xbox isn't that expensive.  Hell, an Xbox 360 isn't expensive enough to warrant the wholesale slaughter we're talking about here.

I mentioned some time back in my blog about how people's priorities need to be readdressed.  I'm going to mention it again.  There's no reason - no reason - to commit a micro-holacaust over a God damned game system!  Over anything, really, but this is the pettiest reason for murder I've heard in a long time.  There are many legal ways to get your property back, the most effective being small claims court.  However, even buying another one is better than killing people.  People need to reassess what's important to them, and if they're getting angry enough over electonics that they'd kill people, they need to get committed.

Personally, I hope every person involved gets the harshest penalty possible, which for three of these bastards is a death that's probably going to be much less painful than what they deliverd to their victims.

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In other news, apparently you're going to become a junkie if you play violent video games.  This is the most rediculous thing I've ever heard.  Did they measure the effects of these games in relationship to similarly violent movies?  I doubt it.  However, I'm not going to whoop and hollar about this issue.  The best chance the censorship lobby had was after Columbine, and even the obsession politicians have had since the Hot Coffee scandal can't mask the fact that our hobby is the latest scapegoat for all of society's ills.  We won't be hearing much about this in four or five years.