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Herr Wilkus
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Posted - 2011.01.12 16:56:00 -
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Wall Street Journal Article
This makes me wonder how many Eve players out there are ticking time bombs - just waiting to go off.
What steps should CCP take to tone down the hateful eliminationist imagery that can trigger troubled individuals to commit terrible acts of violence like this one?
Should gaming companies such as CCP be held partially responsible for the acts of marginal members of society - or will they hide behind concepts such as 'free speech' or EULA?
My condolences to those injured and killed in this terrible attack, and I hope CCP does whatever it can to prevent further bloodshed.
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Herr Wilkus
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Posted - 2011.01.12 17:03:00 -
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 Originally by: Rytlock Thackaray
Too soon.
Conventional Wisdom says no.
So does the New York Times.
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Herr Wilkus
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Posted - 2011.01.16 21:18:00 -
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30,000 die in a year to firearms in the USA?
Seems high, but a very large % of them are young thugs killing other thugs over gang turf and drug markets. Violence in these areas tends to badly skew the data nationwide. Your average red-blooded NRA lifetime member tends to be far more responsible with firearms than the 'average American'.
States like New Hampshire or Wyoming that are mostly white and rural tend to have high rates of gun ownership, but relatively low rates of gun crime - go figure.
Sure, call me racist for bringing it up, but I get tired of people blaming stereotypical white American country boys and hunters for violence committed almost exclusively between gangs of minorities in the slums of LA.
If you could somehow take firearms away from these violence-prone racial groups - you'd see US gun crime rates crash overnight. Fact.
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Herr Wilkus
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Posted - 2011.01.16 21:49:00 -
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Mind you, I'm not terribly upset if gangbangers are killing each other. Some would even say that is one of the upsides of the 2nd Amendment, as dead criminals are much cheaper and easier for the justice system to process. 
I just get the feeling that Europeans think American 'gun nuts' and imagine the sterotypical NRA member, gun show frequenter, deer hunter. Then they cite high levels of American gun violence. But 'gun nuts' as you call them, according to FBI crime statistics - aren't the ones creating the violence.
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Herr Wilkus
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Posted - 2011.01.17 13:27:00 -
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Finland has much stricter firearm regulations, and very low crime and corruption rates. Yet....
Here... Jokela, 2007. Eight dead.
And here too..Kauhajoki, 2008. 10 dead.
I guess that means those Finns are just sick, sick puppies at heart, right? (Well, they are - I'm dating one....but I don't think snobs in the UK can point the finger and chant "US bad, EU good", when this kind of stuff occurs in Europe as well.)
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Herr Wilkus
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Posted - 2011.01.17 21:27:00 -
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I thought it was funny how Tarantula stated that school shootings were 'Uniquely American' just a couple posts AFTER I wiki-linked two Finnish SCHOOL shootings that occurred in the last few years. Reading obviously isn't one of his strong suits.
He just spouts off whatever, without bothering to consider facts other people have laid out for him. 
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Herr Wilkus
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Posted - 2011.01.18 17:13:00 -
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Hey Riedle, remind me to buy you a beer sometime if I'm ever in Canada. You do good work here. Molson or Heineken, eh?
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