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Kindergarten Killer -- the Video Game

Thursday, October 2, 2008

This violent video game, which promotes killing toddlers, was recently removed from a popular gaming website.

Boys playing video game

A children's video game called "Kindergarten Killer" was recently removed from a popular Finnish gaming website for its excessive violence.

Yes -- "Kindergarten Killer" allows players to roam a school and kill teachers and little children with a shotgun. If you hit a kid, blood spurts everywhere.

The Finnish children's gaming site removed the controversial game a week after the country's most deadly school shooting.

Last week a 22-year-old student Matti Saari killed ten kids at a vocational school in Kauhajoki, Finland. It was the country's second school shooting in less than a year.

Saari prefaced his rampage with boastful video clips on YouTube.

It wasn't the first school shooting for Finland -- student Pekka-Eric Auvinen also boasted on YouTube before shooting to death six fellow students, the school nurse and the principal at Jokela high school last November.

Both Saari and Auvinen committed suicide following their rampages.

But these aren't isolated incidents:

One classic study conducted by the American Psychological Association shows playing violent video games can increase kid's aggression level and potential for violence in real life. Another study published in the "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology" showed playing such games increased kids' competitiveness to an unhealthy degree.

Tell us -- would you let your kid play violent video games?



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3 comments so far | Post a comment now >>

 
HELL NO! This is what is wrong with society.
- foxymama
Posted 10/02/08 03:45 PM
 
Gee, is there a game where I can eviscerate the kinds of people who make and/or get their jollies off of murdering children? Having the legal right to create something of such malevolence does not, in ANY way, give you the RIGHT to inflict society with it. And BTW, I am a gamer. My opinion does not reflect a bias against video games… only a bias against the c***s who had the gall to fantasize about this and then pixilate it.
- ruth
Posted 10/02/08 10:15 PM
 
why would you even LET video games kill your kids?
- Aesth
Posted 10/03/08 08:36 AM
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