All Gunmen Like Videogames. It’s a Fact!

And the next German bobblehead has called for a total ban of “Killergames”. Heini Schmitt, head of Germany’s national police union, is constructing his argument using flawed logic and prejudices. Ignoring killing sprees that happened before Videogames were invented or cases where the perpetrator clearly didn’t play violent videogames, he went on to state:

It is known that in every situation in which a violent rampage (Amoklauf) has occurred, the perpetrator has had a remarked addiction to so-called killergames. The manner of the deed is astonishingly similar to virtual examples.

For him, the fact that roughly a third of children and youths “regularly and addictively escape into a virtual world” sets off alarm bells. Age restrictions for such games are often ignored. There is admittedly no proof “that these frequent escapes into virtual killerworlds can contribute to such insane deeds”, said Schmitt, “But neither can the role killergames be completely dismissed.”

When a chance to remove a probable cause exists, it must be used, insisted the chief of the national police union. “The world would be no poorer if there were no more killergames.

Pro tip: If you like bullshit, come to Germany. There’s enough for everybody.

Via Destructoid. Original article by Echo Online. Thanks for translation of the original quote goes to Gamepolitics Forum Mod Hannah.