sandy hook shooting
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Aussie Behind Recent Sandy Hook Simulation
14A Houston-born, now Australian gamer is behind the latest game to make headlines by exploiting the Sandy Hook tragedy – and wouldn’t you know it – it’s the same person behind a similar game years ago based on the Virginia Tech massacre.
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Report: Police Want To Know If Sandy Hook Shooter Was ‘Emulating’ Video Game
The Hartford Courant has published a long profile of Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who shot and killed 27 people at Sandy Hook Elementary last December. One particularly interesting tidbit: Lanza owned “thousands of dollars worth” of violent video games, and police are looking into whether the shooter was “emulating” a “video game scenario” when he…
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US Senator: Video Games Gave Shooter ‘False Sense Of Courage’
Let the scapegoating continue. Adam Lanza, the person who shot and killed 26 people at Sandy Hook elementary in Connecticut last month, reportedly played Call of Duty, among other games. So for quite a while now, pundits and politicians have been drawing links between his heinous actions and the video games he played.
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Stephen Colbert Points Out How Absurd It Is To Blame Video Games For Violence
Stephen Colbert adds some much-needed levity to the conversation about violent video games, which has gone national in a big way following US vice president Joe Biden’s meeting with the games industry last week.