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Eugene

(61,902 posts)
Fri Jan 11, 2013, 03:05 PM Jan 2013

After Newtown, Massachusetts pulls violent games from rest stops

Source: Reuters

After Newtown, Massachusetts pulls violent games from rest stops

By Daniel Lovering
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts | Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:41pm EST

(Reuters) - Massachusetts has pulled violent arcade games from its highway service plazas after a family raised concerns they might offend residents of neighboring Connecticut, which last month witnessed the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.

Tracey and Andrew Hyams called for the games' removal because they thought residents of Newtown, Connecticut, might stumble across them, Massachusetts transportation department spokeswoman Sara Lavoie said on Friday. A gunman killed 20 first graders, six adults and himself in a December 14 attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.

The couple and their children were driving to Boston from New York on Christmas Eve when they stopped at a rest stop about an hour's drive from the Newtown and saw a young man pointing a life-size toy machine gun at a video game machine.

"We were struck by the possibility that someone from the Newtown community, driving east for the Christmas holiday, might stumble across this scene," they wrote in an e-mail message to the Department of Transportation.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/11/us-usa-shooting-connecticut-videogames-idUSBRE90A0W020130111

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After Newtown, Massachusetts pulls violent games from rest stops (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2013 OP
Good move, dumb reason HERVEPA Jan 2013 #1
Convert all rest stops to combo toilet facilities and shooting ranges. MineralMan Jan 2013 #2
There is a real guitar hero public urinal Puzzledtraveller Jan 2013 #6
How about Politicalboi Jan 2013 #3
the day after Newtown I went to see "Lincoln" Enrique Jan 2013 #4
I agree but we can protect people from assault weapon and... Little Star Jan 2013 #5
I think the idea was to spare the feelings of grieving families. randome Jan 2013 #7
I don't know why it would be interesting. JoeyT Jan 2013 #8
Is it possible for an entire state to facepalm? snooper2 Jan 2013 #9
 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
3. How about
Fri Jan 11, 2013, 03:16 PM
Jan 2013

After Newtown, Mass pulls 30 round ammo clips from their entire state. Idiots believe it's the "video games". I play violent video games, and NEVER think about shooting ANYONE for REAL.

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
4. the day after Newtown I went to see "Lincoln"
Fri Jan 11, 2013, 03:18 PM
Jan 2013

an absurd amount of violence in the trailers, especially "Gangster Squad" which was just insane in how much shooting there was.

My point is that there's no way to protect people in our society from gun images.

Little Star

(17,055 posts)
5. I agree but we can protect people from assault weapon and...
Fri Jan 11, 2013, 03:35 PM
Jan 2013

extended magazine/clip images if we just have the will to do it. There is no need to glamorize those things.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
7. I think the idea was to spare the feelings of grieving families.
Fri Jan 11, 2013, 03:55 PM
Jan 2013

There are some defensive posts in this thread right off the bat.

I find that interesting.

JoeyT

(6,785 posts)
8. I don't know why it would be interesting.
Fri Jan 11, 2013, 05:59 PM
Jan 2013

People get defensive because any time anything happens some people are going to blame it on the same thing they blame everything on. You're right about the reason for this specific act, but there have been plenty of threads screaming for banning violent video games and movies.

Doesn't really matter what happened, either. Some people turn into Jack Thompson because it's Tuesday and Tuesdays suck, ergo violent video games (Or movies. Or rock music.) are to blame.

Edited to add: It isn't like anything was banned anyway. They just pulled them out of the state owned rest stops.

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