After the drama in the German Winnenden, where a teen with a massacre at a school ravaged, being the first accusing fingers quickly to ‘violent games’. Jan Meyroos look there not more of them.
Ai, ai, ai. I was already afraid for. The German gunner in the town of Winnenden massacre of his lords, played according to a variety of media violent video games. Counter-Strike, among others. Tim kretschmer observed showed according to one of his friends in addition, strange behavior, and he would only have horror films to watch. Also was by kretschmer last year some time under psychiatric treatment related to depression.
The discussion about the relationship between violent games and the behaviour of the play would arise, often lined, and I fear that in the coming weeks we re in circles to talk. Policy-makers and concerned parents will again with the finger pointing to video games, there will once again scientists, the word come that establish conclusively have proof that games are a bad influence on the youth, and I am since the drama already phoned twice by radio stations, as gamekenner my say about it. But I’ve got no interest in.
What happened in Germany is horrible, but games like scapegoating is too easy. Perhaps the media are their arrows, even need to focus on the fact that someone is apparently an arsenal of weapons in his barn may have stored away. Perhaps the father of Tim explain why he his son and took them to a shooting club, while the boy to a psychiatrist walked and was depressed. And maybe we should just accept that when millions of people a certain hobby, exercise – such as gaming – there’s always a few figures are included to terrible things.
Is gaming not as a source of violent behavior placed, then that gaming for an early death or obesity. At least, according to the British government, which announced change4life campaign in the Uk game industry the last time to rage has driven. Posters with a little boy, sitting on the couch with a game controller in his knuistjes and accompanied by the text “Risk An Early Death, Just Do Nothing” are the main gamepartijen quite in the wrong throat shot.
What does all this say now? That gaming is still considered by many people as something negative is seen. And that a campaign as Vitamin G, which means that gaming is good for you, very touching, but hardly any impact on policy – and opinion-makers. In short, there is in all these years, yet little has changed in the traditional perception around games depends, while the industry only grows, there are more games than ever are being sold and people – young and old – more and more gaming. Games will be at future events as those in Winnenden just the black hair and thus, continue to get. I’m not on, and I’ve proposed to me not to worry.