Video game NRA mentioned - everyone is armed *The kindergartners have guns*

[underpants]

So in blaming a video game that no one had heard of La Pierre cites a game in which.... okay hold on - the kindergartners have guns and shoot back. The problem is a game that proposes everything that his organization proposes.





In Kindergarten Killer, the Video Game the NRA Blamed for School Shootings, Everyone Has a Gun

Ah yes, Kindergarten Killer—the real culprit behind our nation's epidemic of gun violence. So insidious is this game that no one has ever heard of it, let alone played it. The NRA blames the media for that. Because when the media aren't busy corrupting our moral fiber by promoting violent entertainment, they're corrupting our moral fiber by not promoting violent entertainment.

You can tell from the start that this is a title built to lure kids in and not let them go until it has turned them into ice-blooded slayers, because the first thing you see when you load it in your browser is a message telling you it probably won't work very well even on the lowest-quality setting. Those who want the game to function properly are helpfully directed to a different website, which as far as I could tell no longer exists.

WARNING - depiction of the game on this link
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/12/21/kindergarten_killers_nra_s_wayne_lapierre_blames_violent_video_games_for.html





The introduction to the game reads: 'You begin your killing spree, first killing the kindergarten teacher, but then for some unknown reason the kids pull out their own guns!' Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/nra-blames-video-games-kindergarten-killer-sandy-hook-article-1.1225212#ixzz2FjtFwldd





BuzzFeed’s John Herrman offers an explanation for why coverage of the game has been so thin: The game doesn’t matter. “‘Kindergarten Killer’ is neither a popular game nor is it available for sale; by any reasonable standard, it’s hardly a game at all,” writes Herrman. It didn’t even matter when it was introduced in 2002, he argues. “To mention it today borders on farce.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2012/12/21/nra-boss-bashes-medias-failure-to-cover-kindergarten-killer/

[Posteritatis]

1. I've heard of video game straw men, but that's pretty ridiculously obscure even for those. (nt)

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Try to think like the NRA.

Here is a game that gasp, you go kill kids, before gasp...this past week.

Never mind the game was a flop.

It worked though.

[Posteritatis]

3. And I'd be surprised if one in a few hundred gamers had even heard of the thing

Not counting post-press-conference panic, that is.

Of course the "games are teh ebil!" crowd who follow the news, and the at least slightly less woefully ignorant equivalent here, will still latch right on to that and use it as the core of their arguments for awhile, precisely like you'd expect.

Ugh.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. One thread I bailed was exactly that.

[Posteritatis]

5. The absurdity of the 'examples' regularly throws me for a loop

Seeing Doom - the first one - pointed to as The Cause Of This is silly enough, but CNN was raising a fuss about the original Starcraft for awhile.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Zerg!!!!

[OneMoreDemocrat]

7. Hardly...

But you knew that.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. That is my view, and sticking to it

That thread was exactly bait taking courtesy of the NRA.

[spanone]

6. i believe in the blame game, it's called deflection.