Posts tagged killing

Church shooter kept away from video games

by Alexander Sliwinski (Dec 12th 2007 11:56AM)

As has become standard practice now when a kid goes on a killing rampage, it's time to examine the life of Matthew Murray and see if video games had anything to do with the weekend's shootings in Colorado. Murray, who killed four people over the weekend in a couple of church shootings, was ...

Critic blames video games for cop killing increase

by Alexander Sliwinski (Oct 2nd 2007 12:28PM)

Cop killings are on the rise in the US and Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, a law enforcement trainer and author of On Combat and On Violence, blames video games. Some quick stats before we go into Grossman's statements. There have been 54 officer killings this year, a 60% increase from last year and the ...

Guns may kill, but video games close second

by Alexander Sliwinski (Apr 28th 2007 3:50PM)

If there's anything we've learned quite well in the United States over the last six years it's this simple concept: Who needs facts? Facts are messy and they just get in the way of truthiness. In the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre it would be too easy to look at gun control. Republican Utah ...