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*** Families of the Columbine Victims Sue Games Companies! ***
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25-04-2001 9:11pm#1
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It'll get thrown out of court. It's funny while it's there, though...
I mean... if they learned off Doom, could the kids not fire up and down, just directly ahead?
How did they build their BFG?
Frankly, if they learned off Doom, or any other computer game, I'm really disappointed... they must have been particularly crap at it. Given a room FULL of unarmed targets, they managed to kill what, seven people? That's pathetic! They wouldn't even get onto the high score table, let alone past the first level! Sheesh.
I reserve the right to make tasteless comments about rubbish like this until the bloody yanks cop on and fix their stupid gun laws, and stop accusing my industry of causing a problem which can realistically only be blamed on their screwed up society, utterly despicable values and approach to personal diversity, and ridiculous lack of gun control.0 -
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Trojan:
Free advertising... id could re-release the Doom trilogy...
Al.</font>
trilogy?
personally I wouldn't blame the video games - I'd blame the dumbass parents who bought the guns in the first place
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her it is here
SCHOOL SHOOTINGS CAUSED BY SCHOOLS
It was the afternoon of April 20,1999. Many Americans were sitting in their living rooms watching the TV when the news bulletin: High School Massacre, flashed across the screen. Graphic images of murdered students and terrified adults were shown to us. Two years later, we have not forgotten those images, and many more years will probably come before we finally do.
As rational beings we like to understand why things happen in the way they do. Why did this have to happen in Columbine and in Pearl and in West Paducah and in Jonesboro and in Springfield and most recently, in California and Pennsylvania? Many were quick to point out the guns or the video games, but did anyone notice that these shootings all took place in a school? This is not just a coincidence; in fact, the public schools themselves were the cause of these violent acts.
How can the public schools cause kids to become violent murderers? Well, let’s take a look at some of the problems of schools: teachers do not know how to teach; our government has too much of a Napoleonic, fascist control over education; and students, right from the start, are taught a false sense of self-worth and reality. If we compare these to the problems we see many students facing, - drug abuse, violence, and inability to learn -, we can see that both are related. The public schools are turning teens into dumb, “crack-head”, killers.
The Teachers
One of the biggest problems facing the public schools is teachers. From kindergarten to high school, teachers are simply not teaching correctly. The American public school system is a major subscriber of the John Dewey educational philosophy. According to this form of thought, we do not go to school to learn about history or science, but to learn how to socialize. This Dewey progressive philosophy says that the acquiring of knowledge is not as important as socialization and that emotions are more useful than reason. Therefore, basically, being smart is wrong and being ignorant is OK as long one can “behave” in society.
Some examples of this include math tests that do not mark a wrong answer wrong because the student followed the “process” correctly; the use of group work (which gets us to rely on others and not ourselves); and the teaching of “Ebonics” because it is more creative than standard English (unfortunately, a job interviewer at IBM or Bristol-Myers won’t care).
Not only do teachers encourage students to be stupid, but they also, through the teachers’ unions, establish the system in a way that benefits them at the expense of us students. Take the union advocated tenure system, for instance. Under tenure, the longer a teacher works, the harder it becomes to fire him or her. Here at Hillside High School, teachers start tenure after three years of work. A teacher in tenure can be negligent – use class time to catch up on novels or complete assignments for college – and still receive pay for teaching.
Said union member and Hillside High School history teacher Mr. Coppola about the tenure: “It’s not that teachers are allowed to do anything . . .administrators come into the class to make observations . . . the teachers are over-seen.” Although administrators may observe a class occasionally, it is only that – occasionally. As many students have noticed, their teachers only work when they are being observed. Teachers may find it wonderful and assuring that they cannot be fired easily, but we as students are getting hurt.
Government Control
Teachers are not completely responsible for the decay in our schools. It is the government, which has exclusive control over the public school system, which causes the problems. The teachers, after all, do work for the government and it is only understandable that they would inseminate federal propaganda into our brains.
Clearly, public schools are not very great. With increasing costs and decreasing exam scores, something has to be wrong. Politicians, Union county Democrats especially, seem to believe that all the problems can be fixed by spending more money. More money for prettier buildings, more money for larger classrooms, and more money for football t-shirts. But as the evidence indicates, the more money a school district has the worse they are. Look at Newark. Perhaps this is because a school, which is dependent on the government for monetary support, is tied more to federal projects and social experimentations. Hence, we have the teaching of “volunteerism” and Bill Clinton’s “character education” plan, two things that a school or government has no business teaching.
Instead of taking money away from our parents, the government should be giving it back to them. There are many ways of improving the current educational system. Two of the best are the “voucher” system and charter schools, which are supported by conservative Republicans and Libertarians. Under these, parents would be given back some of the money they pay in taxes so that they would be able to send their kids to the private schools of their choice.
Teacher unions are opposed to vouchers and charter schools because, said union leader and guidance counselor Ms. Korzeneski, “private schools that take money from public schools and are not governed by laws are inappropriate”. Ms. Korzeneski and the union are wrong. Since the first charter school was started in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1991, hundreds of other charter schools have been established throughout the country and every single one of them have been required by law to define their curriculum and budget. The only difference between these schools and public schools is that they don’t have to answer to government expectations. The charter schools can establish their own curriculum and teaching methods, which, hopefully, will be better. The more charter schools there are, the more decisions parents and students will have as far as their education is concerned.
Ms. Korzeneski, in the typical pro-union response, claimed that that charter schools will drain the funds from public schools, thereby making the public schools worse. On the contrary, if a public school loses a student to a charter school, the only money the public school will lose is the money that would have been used to educate that one student. If parents and students are given the opportunity to choose, there will be competition among the public and private schools. In time, this will improve the awful conditions of the public schools because competition for survival fosters improvement.
Devastating Effects on the Students
You, the reader, may now ask: “So, how does ‘bad’ teaching created by the government lead to school shootings?” The answer is clear. Kids, who are not taught the proper skills to deal with life, will develop serious self-esteem and life coping problems. Students are being taught to be stupid and to rely on their emotions rather than on rationality and reason. Elementary school kids are told that no answer is a wrong answer and that everyone is the same. This is a dangerous lesson to be teaching because (a) its not true – everyone is not the same, some of us are better than others are, and (b) they do not learn how to accept judgment from others. Instead of teaching kids to depend on themselves and strive for success, schools teach kids to rely and focus on what everybody else is doing. This is seen when we have group class assignments, students of the month picked for being “caring” not for being smart, and principals (such as the one in Columbine) who think that students should try to act like everyone else.
These kids are living in a La-La Land where they can do anything they want and be praised for being ignorant. When reality finally catches up to them they do not know how to handle it because they’ve been taught to rely on their “emotions”. The Columbine killers are a perfect example. Those two had such a poor grasp of reality that they actually thought they would come back to life in their video games. To them, their bloody rampage through their school was nothing more than a fun game.
It was not the guns or video games that caused these infamous school shootings. It was the school system. If these kids were taught to act reasonably instead of emotionally, nothing would have happened. Instead of inviting the government into our schools, let us get rid of it and open up charter schools to allow for choice. Instead of training teachers to indoctrinate socialization skills in students, give them more experience in the classroom and have them take an in-depth examination on the subject they are teaching. Before we buy a new gym or whitewash the halls, let’s focus on reforming the American education system.
think it was nicely written .. but again , they HAVE to find someone to blame , only part responcablity goes to killers, the focus on this seems to be what caused it, not about how stuid it is for the parents to go looking for compensation to a third party !!!!
No !!!!! I will crush you with my Bare hands0 -
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Blaming games? LOL Maybe they should think on their parenting first eh?
I've playing doom and wolfenstein 3D since I was yaa high, and I'm a normal well adjusted guy happily studying maths and physics....
Actually, they may have a point...
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Clintons Cat:
Q. Why Sue The Games Companies?
A. Because The Gun Companies Have Better Lawyers.
I rest my case.
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Wow...
I think you've hit the nail on the head right there.
It wouldn't be the main reason, but a very good one.
They really are just looking for a scapegoat, and if they aren't going to get one in one place, they are going to look in another.
Very well said though. 0 -
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allowed them to play the game
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