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Community Group in Connecticut Running Violent Video Game Return Program

By Heather Scribner On 3 Jan, 2013 At 04:31 PM | Categorized As News | With 3 Comments

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A small community group in Southington, CT will be hosting a Violent Video Game Return Program Saturday January 12, 2013. They will be accepting violent video games as well as violent movies and explicit music.

The group SouthingtonSOS and the program were created in direct response to the Massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, also located in Connecticut. Those to participate in the collection will receive a $25 gift card for their contributions. The Town of Southington will be providing a trash bin for all materials collected.

Members of SouthingtonSOS say that the program is not intended to be interpreted as a statement declaring that violent video games were the cause of the school shooting, however they have stated via a news release

“there is ample evidence that violent video games, along with violent media of all kinds, including TV and movies portraying story after story showing a continuous stream of violence and killing, has contributed to increasing aggressiveness, fear, anxiety and is de-sensitizing our children to acts of violence, including bullying,”

 

The collection will take place Saturday January 12, 2013 at the Southington Drive-In between the hours of 9 and 12.

It didn’t take long for an event like this to take place. Pinning video games as a scapegoat for violence in our society. While I can see that violent games when played constantly, can warp an impressionable mind (be that they are young, or mentally unstable), do you really have to have a Call-To-Action and start a collection to rid our society of violent video games?

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  • http://YourWebsite... Terry Dactil

    So lets blame video games, movies, books, guns, but it’s always the perpetrator {with emotional problems} that’s blamed last.

    I grew up with Warner Brothers cartoons and I never thought about dropping an anvil on someones head. But if I did, is it the Coyotes fault ?

    What about the de-sensitizing of Americans when we abort 1.21 unborn humans per year?

    What about kicking God out of schools?

    Would those have anything do do with de-sensitizing of America?

    Just something to think about.

    Terry D

    • http://YourWebsite... Terry Dactil

      above should have read, “…1.21 Million…”

  • Edward Pol

    Lol love it! I agree with you completely! It’s always easier to blame the thing that is always in front of our face but it almost seems taboo to blame the person that did the act.