Prepare for a bumpy ride -- yet another lonely and pathetic waste of life has taken a gun to his classmates, then himself. I hate when these armed emos do that. Finnish teenager Pekka-Eric Auvinen killed eight students in a suicidal rampage, shortly after his last match in Battlefield 2 -- you can bet videogames will be blamed for this one.
Auvinen has, in fact, left a veritable candy store of media for watchdogs and news outlets looking to blame anything other than the wanker who pulled the trigger. Not only was he a big fan of the aforementioned Battlefield 2 and Counter Strike, he was also a lover of violence-themed movies, metal music and the writing of Nietzsche. In addition, he was an Internet user and posted videos of himself on Youtube, declaring himself a natural selector.
So, a field day for certain people -- whatever your self-serving and thoughtless agenda, you can have plenty of things to pin this one on, and I'm sure there will be plenty of people willing to use his Counter Strike fandom in the same way they tried to pretend the Virginia Tech shootings were all the fault of games. At least one person is being sensible ... or was being sensible -- the gunner himself, who said this before the killing spree:
Don’t blame the movies I see, the music I hear, the games I play or the books I read. No, they had nothing to do with this. This is my war: one man war against humanity, governments and weak-minded masses of the world! No mercy for the scum of the earth!
Well ... he STARTED sensibly. By the way, eight people is NOT a war, moron.
Contest:
10:26 AM on 11.08.2007
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He did do it after all.
had shot 7 of his class mates + teacher... few days before he announced that on youtube, but someone deleted it... it could've been preveiled.
if you speek dutch
But yes, a moron.
By the way, if by chance some losers actually are that easily influenced then they were pretty fucked up to begin with. CAn't blame interactive entertainment for everything
K, end of the sarcasm. But, seriously... no one will care what this dude said about himself or the media prior to his rampage/death. Everyone knows it's never the killer's fault anymore. It's everyone's BUT his. Duh.
Looks like in his war against humanity, humanity won a pretty major victory. Go us!
The words of scaremongers they're words you can trust
Kill yourself first and then see how many others you can take out with you. Then I'll be impressed, pussy.
It's kinda weird that his gaming factor has never come up in the finnish media. They're probably still so shocked that they haven't made a proper investigation yet. Hope mr. Jack isn't going to make a fuzz about this. This was a very, very sad incident.
I'm almost certain you didn't mean to do this, Jim, but you've lifted this guy up. And it's really gross. I know shirking tact is kind of your thing, but I think you're the one who needs to get sensible.
I feel a disturbance in the force.. as if a million people cried out, and were suddenly silenced.
In any case, this is such a stupid, cyclical event. Some disturbed youth who can't hold reign over his emotional peaks and valley's takes his aggression out on innocent people. Jerkstore's like Thompson and the nightly news are quick to jump on the scare tactic bandwagon and blame media. There's much bitching and complaining on the internet, fists are shaken.
And then... it falls into obscurity as time passes for the masses. All that's left are the families for the people who were involved.
Bottom line is that sensationalist bullshit cheapons true human grief. To the people want to make the world a better place, it's not done by banning videogames; it's done by being better people.
Also, dark_inchworm, shut the fuck up if you can't even provide a reason.
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Come back, unenlightened fellow.
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Damn.
"i'm going to shoot 8 people and prove a point." No, no you're not. You're going to shoot 8 people, prove you're insane, give the media ratings, and be forgotten within the next month. Fuck you, fuck your parents, and I'd tell you to GTFO, but you've already done that.
And yes...I'm arguing with a dead fag (no offense, gays).
Chris Rock is awesome.
Also, if this peice of shit hated all of humanity, why didn't he just kill himself? Did he have to take 8 other people with him? It's fucking bullshit. Psychos like this need to be identified beforehand, NOT by their games, NOT by their music, NOT by thei movies they watch, but by how they act and the life-affecting choices they make. I'm not blaming anyone else for this, I'm just saying there should be an easier way to identify the murderers and psychopaths.
blame then all the gun manufacturers and everyone with a gun, not people who play video games, listen to death music or watch Rambo...
Video games = fun
guns = Death
do the math. send JT to go after the world Gun making factories and bug them.
lol @ SuitcoatAvenger not getting it.