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Utah shooting to be blamed on video games? |
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An 18-year-old teenager walked into a Utah shopping mall this week and shot nine people, killing five and wounding four. The suspect, a Bosnian immigrant named Sulejman Talovic, walked into the Trolley Square shopping mall in Salt Lake City, Utah, armed with a .38-caliber pistol, a shotgun, a backpack full of ammunition, and fired blindly into the crowd. The FBI said that there was no reason to believe that the suspect was motivated by religious extremism or terrorism. Talovic lived in a tiny ranch house with his family; parents Suljo and Sabira Tolavic and three younger sisters. Neighbors describe the lanky Talovic as a loner who's always dressed in black. The Talovic family fled Bosnia for Utah in 1998. Sulejman's aunt, Ajka Omerovic, in retaliation to people tying their religion to her nephew's acts said, "we are Muslims, but we are not terrorists."
Citizens freely trade their views on the issue. It must be remembered that throughout the years, the issue of teenage gunfiring has stirred up some quite contrasting opinions. Outspoken citizens have expressed their concern, also, that the issue might be used by some politically-inclined individuals to advance their agenda.
Some gamers and non-gamers alike are only happy to put out that the blame must not be placed on the computer game industry and on computer games, but rather, on the suspects themselves. The gaming community now holds its breath over a possible barrage of blame to be poured on their industry.
Via ABC News
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QJ, stop posting up this stuff, or AT LEAST get the facts right... like kotaku...
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He was just a psyco.
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RIP for the victims.
@Spencer: You know, it's because people like you that Europeans think you're a nation of retards. But, once you dig in deeper, one can see that it's the retards that are leading your country and spilling out all those brave words about other religions, nations, democracy and "God-given right to defend ourselves (and police the whole world while we're at it)", while the sons and daughters of normal, everyday people are dying in Iraq (and all over the world) so your president can get a few extra barrels of gasoline for you to pour into your Jeep while ridin' trough the Texas and listenin' to some Nazi-rock.
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You deserved to be one of those shot by him.
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And to those blaming the guns.. did they turn him evil? did they kill those people themselves? Absolutely not.
Guns are harmless until someone points that gun and pulls the trigger. The right to keep and bear arms is our Second Amendment right and if you're going to take that away..Whats going to stop liberals and the government from taking the rest.
The constitution isn't a pick and choose document...All freedoms and rights it guarantees should be upheld.
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this story was written to the style to rally up troops and scrutinize others
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We need to stop these burdens in our own countrys rather than other countrys. After your country has really low crime rates, than maybe go worring about some other country, If this happens, we will be safe going outside and not worring about terrorist or such. Maybe if those losers running countrys like America or England etc, do this, they might be called Heros rather than "retards" etc.
Work together rather than picking on one another!
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