>Not too long ago I was thinking of removing Game Politics from my RSS reader because I’ve basically retired from gaming even though I was a proud gamer for 30+ years. Boy am I glad I didn’t remove them.
Thanks to GP I learned about a story out of San Antonio, Texas where a 16-year-old student was arrested for plotting an attack against Marshall High School.
The teen was allegedly playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 with a man from Port Alberni, BC (again still not AD) Canada when the teen allegedly started bragging about how he was going to shoot up his school in great detail. The man from BC contacted the RCMP who were able to trace the kid back to San Antonio.
The teen allegedly said he was going to get firearms from a ‘Marine Corps friend’ and how he already thought out tactical details like how long it would take SWAT to arrive. He also said that the reason he wanted to do it was to “make the headlines so that people would remember him forever”. Well you made some headlines however the only time you’ll probably be remembered is at some future gathering where your former classmates will say “Hey, remember the time that kid got arrested fro threatening the school over xBox? What was his name again? What ever happened to him?”
Police say the threat was not creidble and the school was never in any danger.
Some people who play games like Call of Duty are these military wannabes who would probably crap their pants if they were ever in a real combat situation. I bet this kid is one of them.
However before you start bashing gamers just remember it was another gamer that turned him in.
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