Videogames Make Us Violent! Not!

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First off, yeah sorry I haven’t written in a while. I haven’t really gotten any new games lately, and I also haven’t been playing any of my older ones. Well, Fallout 3 still refuse to work, and I haven’t had time to actually go hunt for patches.

I’ve also been recently engrossed in watching Deep Space Nine. You know, the Star Trek series? Yeah we never had that aired over here in Singapore, and I finally managed to get all 7 seasons of it. I’ve been locked up in my room watching it from Season 1, episode 1 (btw, the way that Jadzia Dax died is so lame~!).

Anyway, I came across this pretty disturbing article here when scanning some news sites. In summary, a boy who was forbidden to play a videogame called “Halo 3”, got a gun and shot his parents, killing his mother and seriously wounding his father.

Now, I’m going to say that this doesn’t necessarily prove that videogames make us violent. I’m saying that the presence of a gun is the factor that facilitated this tragedy. After all, it’s the USA. Everyone has the right to bear arms for “protection”.

Here in Singapore, we’re always being ridiculed as a “police state” where the only people allowed to bear arms are the police and the army.

But, imagine if this kid were to be in Singapore. There is no way he’d find a gun “locked away” at home. If he wanted to kill his parents, he’d have to hunt for a knife from the kitchen. With a knife, his parents can actually run away (or subdue him) and get help. Nobody needed to die.

Oh yes, of course, us Chinese know Kung Fu, and we’d kick the shit out of the boy. Riiigghhhttt…

That’s one for us here in our police state, zero for freedom to bear arms.