Kindergarten shooting game pulled
HELSINKI (Reuters) - An Internet game in which players roam a school and kill kindergarten students with a shotgun has been pulled from a Finnish children's gaming site one week after the country's worst school shooting.
'We have removed pages from our site that are not necessarily appropriate for younger family members,' lastenpelit.fi said in a statement on its Web site.
The game, 'Kindergarten Killer,' can be found widely on the Web.
Matti Saari, 22, last week killed 10 people at a vocational school in Kauhajoki, Finland, in the country's second school shooting in less than a year. Saari prefaced his rampage with boastful video clips on Web sites such as YouTube.
Finnish student Pekka-Eric Auvinen did the same before shooting six fellow students, the school nurse and the principal to death at Jokela high school last November.
Both Saari and Auvinen shot themselves following their rampages and died later from their injuries."
Friday, October 3, 2008
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The game is in poor taste but probably not a risk factor.
Many of the shooters had video game playing habits. But there is something else more of them have, Subliminal Distraction exposure.
The Redlake, Virginia Tech, Joleka, and the Atlanta Day Trader shooters all have evidence of this phenomenon.
Subliminal Distraction was discovered because it caused mental breaks for office workers. The Cubicle solved that problem by 1968. It is believed to be a harmless temporary episode of confusion and psychotic-like behavior.
So few people are aware of it that no investigation is ever done to connect it to the shootings.
VisionAndPsychosis.Net is a five year investigation of SD. There are separate pages on the different shooting events.
Regardless of the "risk factor", in what universe is it appropriate to put a game on a CHILDREN'S web site (or ANY web site) where kindergarten students are hunted down and shot????!!!! Unbelievable.......
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