Video Game Developer Helps Serial Killers Practice Murder
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You have to hand it to Danny Ledonne. He’s in the news today, and not in a way that most people would want. This is a person who actually helps serial killers practice their “Art”. The most recent shooting ocurred in Canada, at the hands of a person who loved playing the game “Super Columbine Massacre”.
Can you imagine loving violence so much you make a game out of it? Wow. And now you find out that someone who “really loved your game” like Kimveer Gill has completed a real-life massacre.
If you’re like Danny Ledonne, you make the game “an indictment of our society at large”. I wonder what gives Danny a right to “indight society” at all. His list of accomplishments, if any, is quite small. He anticipated a negative public reaction concerning the game, and tried to keep his role in its’ creation quiet.
Ledonne said:
“The game does not glorify school shootings,” Ledonne told The Washington Post. “If you make it far enough into the game, you see very graphic photos of Eric and Dylan lying dead. I can’t think of a more effective way to confront their actions and the consequences those actions had.”
Imagine the negative feelings that families of the Columbine victims must feel towards Ledonne and his “game”. Even worse, imagine the feelings of the newest victims who will now learn that Kimveer Gill loved playing this violent game, and ended up wearing a black trench coat and killing innocent people!
Here’s a link to Danny Ledonne’s Myspace Profile.
Judging from his picture, Ledonne wouldn’t fare well in most violent confrontations, especially hand to hand combat.
Funny enough, Ledonne even claims he was heading down the same path. So, in simpler terms, he had ideas of doing a massacre himself.
“The same was true of Columbine. I had thoughts of hurting myself or hurting someone else and Columbine forced me to take a long hard look at those ideas and walk away from that.
I’m not attempting to make the point that video games kill people. Ultimately Kimveer Gill was responsible for his own actions. But to act like a video game developer has no connection between the actions of someone who played the game, even going so far as to profess love for it, is also short-sighted.
At the very least, you help someone imagine and execute practice murders hundreds or even thousands of times a day.
In his defense, Ledonne had this to say:
“I am, like most, saddened by the news of the recent shooting at Dawson College. I extend my condolences to those affected by this painful event,” Ledonne wrote.
What do you think? Does Donny Ledonne bare some responsibility for the actions of Kimveer Gill?
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