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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfter Newtown, Massachusetts pulls violent games from rest stops
Source: Reuters
By Daniel Lovering
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts | Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:41pm EST
(Reuters) - Massachusetts has pulled violent arcade games from its highway service plazas after a family raised concerns they might offend residents of neighboring Connecticut, which last month witnessed the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
Tracey and Andrew Hyams called for the games' removal because they thought residents of Newtown, Connecticut, might stumble across them, Massachusetts transportation department spokeswoman Sara Lavoie said on Friday. A gunman killed 20 first graders, six adults and himself in a December 14 attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
The couple and their children were driving to Boston from New York on Christmas Eve when they stopped at a rest stop about an hour's drive from the Newtown and saw a young man pointing a life-size toy machine gun at a video game machine.
"We were struck by the possibility that someone from the Newtown community, driving east for the Christmas holiday, might stumble across this scene," they wrote in an e-mail message to the Department of Transportation.
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HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)That'll solve the problem.
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)Call of Nature/ Gun Urinal is not too farfetched
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)After Newtown, Mass pulls 30 round ammo clips from their entire state. Idiots believe it's the "video games". I play violent video games, and NEVER think about shooting ANYONE for REAL.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)an absurd amount of violence in the trailers, especially "Gangster Squad" which was just insane in how much shooting there was.
My point is that there's no way to protect people in our society from gun images.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)extended magazine/clip images if we just have the will to do it. There is no need to glamorize those things.
randome
(34,845 posts)There are some defensive posts in this thread right off the bat.
I find that interesting.
JoeyT
(6,785 posts)People get defensive because any time anything happens some people are going to blame it on the same thing they blame everything on. You're right about the reason for this specific act, but there have been plenty of threads screaming for banning violent video games and movies.
Doesn't really matter what happened, either. Some people turn into Jack Thompson because it's Tuesday and Tuesdays suck, ergo violent video games (Or movies. Or rock music.) are to blame.
Edited to add: It isn't like anything was banned anyway. They just pulled them out of the state owned rest stops.