Nov 21 2006

violent video games blamed for German school attack

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Leading German lawmakers demanded a crackdown on violent computer and simulated war games on Tuesday over concerns that they may have helped inspire a young man to attack his former school with guns and explosives.

The masked 18-year-old man stormed the Scholl secondary school on Monday in the western German town of Emsdetten, wounding as many as 27 people before committing suicide.

The young man, identified only as Bastian B., was known to authorities and due in court on Tuesday for weapons violations, local police said. According to German media reports, he had a fondness for war simulation and computer games.

Wolfgang Bosbach, the deputy head of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) in parliament, said it was time to consider banning games that simulate wanton killing.

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  1. NFSU2FREAK

    thats like those two young boys who stole daddy`s rifle and started shooting at cars on the interstate and they said hey lets blame GTA for this one or that hot coffee mod i mean geez cant we all use some common sense here or what.

  2. ajurna

    i dont suppose they could possibly blame his love of guns and explosives and ban those? or perhaps his love of driving and ban cars. or perhaps he had a shit time in school never really dealt with it and he was mentally unstable. for the retarded people out there war simulation games look nothing like running around in a school trying to shoot and blow up ppl.

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