Sunday, September 17, 2006

What can be said about the Dawson College shooting that hasn't already been said? That monster who gunned down Anastasia DeSousa and wounded 19 others (2 critically) before turing the gun on himself wanted to be remembered as the angel of death. Bringer of death he may have been, but he was no angel. An angel is given a divine purpose from God. This shooting was not an act of God. It was pure evil in every sense of the word. There was no purpose to this. May God show him mercy, because he won't find any here.
Of course, we have to ask ourselves, what would motivate this young man to do such a thing? Violent video games? That must be it!
Experts argue video games -- not matter how violent -- should not be held responsible for Gill's actions.
"The world, as usual, is more complex than we'd like it to be," Ian Bogost, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Ga., told The Canadian Press.
Bogost said "Super Columbine Massacre" is an easy target for blame, but argued several deeper problems led to Wednesday's shooting spree.
"Certainly, Gill was using media of all kinds to culture his antisocial fantasies," said Bogost. "Should we hold (this game) responsible? Clearly, these are overly simplistic explanations."
John Pungente, of the Association for Media Literacy, said violence in the media is an old issue. In the 1950s, when gruesome comics were blamed for youth violence, the government created the Comics Code Authority to censor them. But comics no longer generate the same concern among today's parents.
"You can't blame the media," Pungente told CP. "People have been doing these violent things since before there was even media."
Death metal? That's also it! Hitler listened to Wagner and other classical composers. There's no shortage of terror leaders who revere the classic works of Shakespeare, Dante, and others. He was a member of VampireFreaks.com! That must be it! A website with over 600,000 members, and one commits a terrible crime! What are the odds? Goth culture! That's it! But every culture and clique has weirdos who pull shit all the time. Goths are just surrounded by an image that is dark, and therefore people fear it. Marilyn Manson knows this, and he exploits it to its extremes and the more people talk about it, the more attention he gets. People fear that which they don't understand. Just understand understanding. Help is there. Don't push people away. There is life beyond the school walls.

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