Newtown 7th Grader Starts Movement To Rid America Of Violent Video Games - Polidicks

[quote]NEWTOWN, Conn. (CBSNewYork) — Violent video games are drawing new scrutiny in the wake of the Newtown elementary school tragedy. Some gamers are already giving them up … voluntarily. CBS 2’s Lou Young met one seventh grader in Newtown on Thursday who was gathering a selection of his personal video games. He was getting rid of them for one reason and said he wants you to get rid of yours as well. “All of it is kill, just kill as many people as you can without dying,” Max Goldstein said. Each one is what they call a “first-person shooter,” a game in which the player looks at a digital landscape through the sights of a weapon and uses it on enemies. EXTRA: Remembering The Sandy Hook School Shooting Victims They are among the most popular games on the market; violent, engaging, and, some say, addictive. In the aftermath of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Goldstein and his brother decided it was a digital world they could no longer embrace. “I really think it’s rude and disrespectful to the families, who lost children, to play these games,” Goldstein said. With his parents help he’s created a group called “Played Out” that uses the slogan “We choose not to play.” It urges fellow kids to ditch their violent games as well. Bins will be going up in Newtown on Friday. “We hope people will drop off … and destroy them,” said Jackson Mittleman, Goldstein’s brother. The adults are wondering why they didn’t think of it first. “It’s just great. I think it’s just great the kids thought of something,” said Roberta Mittleman, the boys’ mother. Goldstein said his goal is to reduce violent video games by a third in American homes. You can start by dropping them off Friday. The first of the bins will go up at the Newtown Sports Academy.[/quote] [url= http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/12/20/newtown-7th-grader-starts-movement-to-rid-america-of-violent-video-games/]SOurce[/url] Ahahahahaha no

Fuck this kid [editline]22nd December 2012[/editline] I urge all my peers to stop combing their hair. This will be about as useful as this kid's campaign.

-I suck at funny-

It's not the violent video games, it's the games like Super Hexagon that really make you wanna kill yourself.

I'm sorry kid. Its a wonderful sentiment, and its really nice that you're trying to do something, but its never gonna happen, ever.

Here is an idea, how about we also get rid of every violent movie and book? They could be disrespectful as well.

[QUOTE]“It’s just great. I think it’s just great the kids thought of something,” said Roberta Mittleman, the boys’ mother.[/QUOTE] I bet it was her idea and just for the attention.

[QUOTE]“I really think it’s rude and disrespectful to the families, who lost children, to play these games,” Goldstein said.[/QUOTE] so no one made videogames until after these people died ok

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I mean I feel for the kid but... [quote]“All of it is kill, just kill as many people as you can without dying,”[/quote] No, just no.

portal is technically a first person shooter i dont see any one getting killed [editline]21st December 2012[/editline] top tip seventh grader: sweeping statements make u look like a fool

Good, maybe if the Crusaders only stopped to think what those games were doing to their minds they wouldn't have slain all those Muslims and jews Also FACT: Nero mained the pyro in TF2, think about THAT one

Reminds me of the [url=http://www.nocussing.com/]No Cussing Club™[/url]

Jesus fucking christ how goddamn stupid can you be, it's like getting stung by a hornet and then going to a hornet's nest and dousing it in water then lighting the nest on fire.

Not playing a certain kind of video game isn't going to bring any of those kids back from the dead, and it isn't going to make one bit of a difference in the world. Regardless of your decision play Super Skullfuck Kid Murderer: Ultraviolence Edition or not, somewhere in the world, people are still going to be shot at and killed in the violent ways imaginable every second of the day and there is nothing you can do about it. By doing this in the first place you are just giving the ignorant old farts that run your lives more ammunition for when they push their ignorant 'I don't understand this, so it must be bad and evil and against the bible' bullshit agenda on the rest of us. You're admitting that they're right in their incredibly arrogant assumption that all video games are serial killer training sims, even though films and novels have been more violent and graphic in their depiction of violence than games can ever hope to achieve in the forseeable future. Go ahead and blindly follow this kid's well-meaning but ultimately pointless sentiment, but just know you aren't accomplishing anything by doing this except placating your morality and are actually contributing to the shitting up of your own pasttime.

This would of been a blessing if it was directed at ages below 18

So is it like knee jerk reaction week in America or has the media just latched onto stupidity as usual?

If only there was some kind of rating system so that only people of a certain age could aquire these games. OH WAIT

Geez kid we get it, your mum let you play Black Ops 2 on your Xbox and you got owned hard but it's no reason to rage at shooters in general!

[quote=The article]“I really think it’s rude and disrespectful to the families, who lost children, to play these games,” Goldstein said."[/quote] Yes, whenever someone is playing Call of Duty, they are actively imagining that all the virtual enemies they are killing are in fact caricatures of the all the victims of any mass shooting ever. [quote=The article]“It’s just great. I think it’s just great the kids thought of something,” said Roberta Mittleman, the boys’ mother."[/quote] I'm sorry, but that kid did not make the connection between shooting people in video games and the shootings that occurred in reality. It's obviously something his parents have convinced him of to the point that he can regurgitate it, and now they're trying to push him into the spotlight in some kind of attempt to prove that video games lead to real world violence by showing that even a 7th grader can make that connection. He can't, and they can't, because there is no connection.

I love the rage in this thread. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Why reply" - MaxOfS2D))[/highlight]

My unbeatable logical powers state that this because normal people dont associate real murders with video games, this kid has mental problems and will likely go on a massacre himself. Therefore, he should be either placed in an insane asylum or executed at once.

I don't know if I've ever thought these words, but fuck this kid.

I just had a thought, we should be promoting this like fuck and spreading it around, trying to convince gullible parents to force their kids to bin their violent games. These kids shouldn't be playing these games anyways, so there's that, plus, just imagine: playing a multiplayer game on the 360 with not a single underage gamer seen or heard. Less racial slurs, less profanity, less squeaky prepubescent yelling...truly it would be heaven on earth.

Goldstein family sells then sells the games for thousands. Kid's a genius.

[QUOTE=King Tiger;38930897]Fuck this kid [editline]22nd December 2012[/editline] I urge all my peers to stop combing their hair. This will be about as useful as this kid's campaign.[/QUOTE] I already don't comb my hair. I use a rigid hair brush. Also I lost my comb.

[quote] “I really think it’s rude and disrespectful to the families, who lost children, to play these games,” Goldstein said.[/quote] ...riiiiiiight. I fail to see your logic, kid. Blasting a deathclaw in the testicles with a plasma rifle is not in any way disrespectful to the victims/families of any shooting, let alone this one. I suppose, if I extend this kid's logic, that using the Fat Man to obliterate a cazador and/or legionary is also disrespectful to Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims?

[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;38930942]Reminds me of the [url=http://www.nocussing.com/]No Cussing Club™[/url][/QUOTE] [IMG]http://puu.sh/1DQuA[/IMG]

I guarantee you this kid has no friends.

What you guys who are joking and mocking this kid don't seem to realize, is that this is simply a knee-jerk reaction from a kid who's witnessed basically the destruction of the way his community once was. He's trying to find [I]some[/I] way to help fix an extremely complicated situation in the only way he can think of. Regardless of whether it's wrong or not, he probably felt completely helpless seeing all of these grieving people and not being able to do anything. Someone just needs to point him in the right direction, and away from something that is completely fruitless. edit: Similar reactions have occurred with other situations, such as book-burnings. I'm not justifying his idea or the premise behind it, but someone needs to make sure that his sadness, fear and anger don't cause him to follow this path, because it will literally get him nowhere.