New Video Game Allows Players to Murder NRA President
Katie Pavlich
Jan 15, 2013 11:53 AM EST
A new online video game is taking political discourse to a whole new level. We already reported the death threats being received by NRA executives and now, a video game which allows users to shoot NRA President David Keene in the head, has been released. The creator of the game identified as gizmo01942 Ediot says, "Share this everywhere, especially gun-nut and anti-game websites. Also see if you can't send it in to the NRA somehow, like through the feedback on their website or something." Gizmo also provides screen shots to viewers, which can be seen below.
The game is available for download and comes in the form of a zip file. During a press conference in December, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre berated the video game industry for their use of violence saying, "Isn’t fantasizing about killing people all day really the filthiest form of pornography?”
This video game seems to be retaliation for the NRA's violent video game stance.
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Just Google the game creator's name. It's in a thread on a site, and the thread is NSFW.
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Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Well, I thought this was going to be funny, because I see the humor in over-the-top hyperbole of using a violent video game to satirize the NRA's pronouncement that gun violence is caused by violent video games. However, I have now found out that this game reenacts the Sandy Hook shooting, and the screaming kids resolved any interest I had in playing this thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... L_rI_ZfgY#!
Darth J wrote:Well, I thought this was going to be funny, because I see the humor in over-the-top hyperbole of using a violent video game to satirize the NRA's pronouncement that gun violence is caused by violent video games. However, I have now found out that this game reenacts the Sandy Hook shooting, and the screaming kids resolved any interest I had in playing this thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... L_rI_ZfgY#!
Yeah, the same guy (kid?) made his entrance in that online forum by announcing and then making a videogame of the Aurora theater shooting. I didn't see anything that indicated his political leanings (other than pro-video games). I'd just label him a sick bastard.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
krose wrote:Leftist? Where is the evidence for that?
The evidence is that someone is making fun of the NRA.
As a side note, krose, did you know that every single gun owner and gun enthusiast in the United States walks in lockstep with the NRA, and that only leftists who want to take all our guns away disagree with the NRA from time to time? True story.
ETA: Except that this video game is not really just a satire of the NRA. It is sick BS re-enacting the Sandy Hook shooting. Apparently the part where you snipe the NRA president is a bonus level.
I do think that violent video games can desensitize people to real-world violence. But if you look at a country like Japan, teenagers grow up playing violent video games and they don't have a horrific homicide rate. You can't blame it just on video games. There are other factors at work here. We're looking at a fairly unique American Cocktail.
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