Connecticut town cancels plans to destroy games

Hell im 13 and im ok with far cry 3 and other violence game

"Also because it would create an unnecessary amount of logistical details for us." 

Yes the logistical detail being forcibly entering houses and removing computer games from the houses?

i take this as a complement. people used to burn books because they were a source of knowledge and they could not understand them. the same thing is happening again.

If someone is crazy enough to take a gun to school and kill his friends and teachers then there is a much deeper set problem than him having played violent games! He is quite obviously unstable. There are hundreds of millions of gamers around the world and how many have killed? A hand full? How many non-gamers have killed? Tonnes? It's like saying "this killer is a keen eater of lamb chops so BAN MEAT!"

Remember that time when people believe the universe revolved around us, than Galileo theorized that we moved around the sun and the religious officials arrested him and hindered his research because they didn't like what they didn't understand? A "videogame burning" kind of reminds me of this. And do we all remember the results of Galileo's theory? I would hope you do. Despite all of the bigotry and ignorance, he ended up being right and the world was better for it. Same thing here. Destroying something because you don't like it just makes the problem worse.

HAHAHA Bulletstorm and Mortal Kombat.. you can tell they're paying attention here.  Very current.  Meanwhile let's get a huge pile of art like the nazis and destroy it for the betterment of our children, but allow them to stay glued to their cellphones, facebook, blah blah blah blah BLAH.  Oh, false alarm, we got across what we wanted to so uh.. we don't have to do it now.  Try this one.  You were afraid of the backlash you might receive from the public, and you couldn't get the kind of community support to follow through on your gift certificate idea because no one wants to back you on your irrelevant cause.  The world is now filled with gamers who are also consumers, so it's probably unwise to try to stick it to them.  Backing off like that just made you look like cowards.  Congrats, "elders".

Guns don't kill people, video games do? 

Could you crazy yanks put down your crack pipes for a goddamn second and screw your freaking heads on?

The gamers will cancel plans on destroying Connecticut town.

Oh wait, sorry, forgot we are not THAT stupid...

Im actually glad this didnt happen. The idea kinda reminded me of all those religious nut jobs that burn science books.

I'm surprised they weren't planning to have people throw the violent materials into the street to be crushed by a steam roller like people did with Sinéad O'Connor, Milli Vanilli, and The Dixie Chicks.

My kids fat - its the hamburgers fault.

My kids violent - its the video games fault.

My kid failed math - its the teachers fault.

My kid throws like a girl - im a single mother, so its the dads fault

My kid licks the window on the bus - its the vaccines fault

My kid fell down outside - that ground shouldn't have been there!

Heres an idea - YOURE A SHITTY PARENT. Period.   . 

SO...if the back room of your house resembles a Stanley Kubrick film and you have your 130 pound 11 year old strapped to a chair crammin whoppers in his grill while showing him violent 1+1=3 propaganda films please stop post haste. kthnxbye

Read between the lines wtf was we thinking in this economy how could we afford to give people $25 gift certificates and destroy the games. We would be hypocrites to resell them for a profit. Hey we made people aware of what we wanted to do equals more donations going into our pockets from church woman mission accomplished. They are now at level 2 and gain $550k in their pockets.  

In simpler terms, nobody wanted to do it.

Idiots. Don't understand these fools at all.

Violent Action figures are the real problem...

This Connecticut Town is super strange.

Ironically almost played themselves back into 1980s there.

Their objective was to stir up the hysteria and clucking fools wanting to "do something about the problem" to make themselves feel better. And they accomplished that in spades. So the state cancelled its game burn? How many "public minded" parents whipped into this frenzy had private get togethers with friends to destroy their kids game collections and pat themselves on the back for fighting violence and making their town safer? Meanwhile the states hands stay clean. Well played, CT, the first 3 letters of your name is most deserved.

It was a stupid idea to being with, but I'm glad they finally came to their senses.  

what happen in conn is sad but vid games are not the blame i mean didnt the mother have all these and didnt she teach this kid to shoot knowing he had mental problems it sounds to me gta wasnt the problem or hitman but his mother

i dont know about other states but here in tampa fl if the game says 17 or under you need a adult and the gamestop i go to wont let minor kids buy the game so if you dont want your kid to play violent games dont buy them its that simple

so u tried to kill off  violent games, movies and media for the U.S. all because your little small scale town had a tragic moment and then make a country of a large scale suffer for it.  Idiots.smh  

Thank goodness! They actually have brains!

So much fail for something that ended up working out.

sanity prevails!

"We couldn't afford it"

Thats a lie. Either they didnt have enough support or they didnt have enough gift certificates. Either they're lying. Do i know for sure they're lying? No. But I'm calling bullshit on this 1.

Apparently they weren't ready to come through with the gift certificates and backed out of the plan for financial reasons.

shouldn't possession of firearms be the first subject of discussion to be acted upon before discussing violent media to our mental health? isn't there a order of things for example to prevent a child from sucking on their thumb first teach them to stop before cutting it off?

"Our other objective was to promote discussion of violent video games" by burning the devil devices at the stake for possessing our children and making them kill innocent people.

http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/4/3835660/video-game-burning-expert

Repost of an earlier comment made by ...damn i forget but anyway needs to be shared :)

"Also because it would create an unnecessary amount of logistical details for us." More like logical details.

As dumb as its sounds, the history of America has no women going out on a killing spree. I mean it's usually the men going out killing because gun shops hasn't gone underground. Has anyone fantasize a beautiful girl carrying a sexy gun? Not likely. I wouldn't dream of Britney Spears sing while showing off her beautiful shotgun as that could ruin her image. The other way around is no girl would dream of a mentally insane, attractive ladies man carrying a pistol, just to have some orgy violence.

On the women side of things, it would be interesting if the sex roles has been reversed and America gets wacky. Anyway, there's nothing hot about girls carrying guns.

BEDEMIR: Tell me, what do you do with witches?
VILLAGER #2: Burn!
CROWD: Burn, burn them up!
BEDEMIR: And what do you burn apart from witches?
VILLAGER #1: More witches!
VILLAGER #2: Wood!
BEDEMIR: So, why do witches burn?
[pause]
VILLAGER #3: B--... 'cause they're made of wood...?
BEDEMIR: Good!