'Active shooter' video game prompts outrage in wake of mass shootings

[austinN4]

Truly unbelievable. I am at a loss for words. AN4

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'Active shooter' video game prompts outrage in wake of mass shootings
By Christopher Carbone, Paulina Dedaj | Fox News

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/05/...shootings.html

" Players are given “game stats” where they can see how many civilians and police officers were killed."

[RetroRevolver77]

I saw that same game in the news not to long ago being promoted for school officials to use as a way to figure out to harden their schools. It was some kind of safety training game used by law enforcement and school officials. Maybe some leftists bought the rights and are now promoting it as a video game as a way to get all video games banned for kids? Who knows.

[LMT Shooter]

It doesn't get much more insane than this. I dont think I'd have a problem with the game if you were only allowed to be a responding LEO or SRO.

I hope that if anyone is ever found to have played this game in the murderer role, & then goes on to carry out an actual mass murder, they choose to do it in the offices of this games creators.

[RetroRevolver77]

It doesn't get much more insane than this. I dont think I'd have a problem with the game if you were only allowed to be a responding LEO or SRO.

I hope that if anyone is ever found to have played this game in the murderer role, & then goes on to carry out an actual mass murder, they choose to do it in the offices of this games creators.

Even says in the article it's a SWAT simulator. It was meant to help LEO's and school officials react to an active shooter situation.

[titsonritz]

No man, video games have nothing to do with violent crime, what makes you say that?

[LMT Shooter]

Even says in the article it's a SWAT simulator. It was meant to help LEO's and school officials react to an active shooter situation.

But the article says you can choose to be the "shooter" also. I said I'd likely have no issue with a game that allows players to be the LEO/SRO's responding. Allowing players to be a mass murderer is fvcked up. I've never been a gamer, but I think Grand Theft Auto, or whatever the game(s) where you can be a gangbanger POS is called, is fvcked up, too.

[BoringGuy45]

I saw that same game in the news not to long ago being promoted for school officials to use as a way to figure out to harden their schools. It was some kind of safety training game used by law enforcement and school officials. Maybe some leftists bought the rights and are now promoting it as a video game as a way to get all video games banned for kids? Who knows.

More likely they'd hope it would encourage more school shootings so that they can ban guns.

[LMT Shooter]

When will a game that allows a player to "groom" children & then sexually molest them come out? The maker can just tell us all that it's just a game, "please do not take any of this seriously" and it'll all be OK. No harm in that, right?

[elephant]

I play GTA V almost everyday and get in shootouts with police for the most minor offenses, like killing incent pedestrians, killing hookers after I pick them up, shooting down helicopters, car jacking, blowing up random buses filled with people. There was one time where me and another player started shooting at each other inside Vanilla Unicorn and killed 2 strippers and 9 bystanders including the bouncer, bartender and DJ. Sometimes, I order hits on other players or hire a mugger to steal there money. Sometimes and only sometimes I hire Merryweather private contractors to escort me around the city just to keep other players from trying to kill me. Its just a game though. I think, if played in moderation, video games in every genre do more good than harm. So what if a video game is based on a mass shooter.

[LMT Shooter]

Elephant,

I'm not saying that 100% of folks playing these games will have their thoughts &/or behavior influenced by them, I don't believe that's true. I also refuse to accept that there's not one single person, and maybe a lot of individuals, who is/are going to be influenced, possibly including their actions, by anything that condones & glorifies murder.

I know that children have been playing "cowboys & indians" and other killing games since before I was born, however I don't think kids were immersed in those games to the extent that they get immersed in video games. Can anyone really say they played a game like cowboys and indians every day, maybe for hours at a time? Children do that with video games, not all kids, but some. Kids are more likely know, or more likely knew, that there are or were no "real" cowboys & indians killing each other while they played. Gangbangers and school mass murderers are parts of their reality quite often. The concept of the actions of players being murder weren't as directly associated with playing cowboys and indians as it is, or maybe ought to be, with these ultra violent, murder oriented video games, and there was no bloodshed in cowboys & indians, other than imaginary, like you see in video games.

How many school children were going to school with intentions of murder before GTA, or any other games that glorify & condone murder, came out, compared to today? I don't know the answer, but it's an honest question. If you show me a serious body of unbiased research that shows no difference, then I would reconsider my opinion. Obviously there are likely many factors that make kids go to school & murder, but I can't see any good, as you say, coming from video games like these that you couldn't get from games that do not glorify & condone murder.