Various Angles of the Montreal Massacre

Ghosts of the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre haunt everyone today, as a rampage of the same nature occurred recently at Dawson College in Montreal, Canada. As of this writing, two people are dead while six others are in a life or death condition. The suspect is 25-year old Kimveer Gill, avid fan of videogames with violent nature. Unsurprisingly, the media implies the games served as inspiration for the killings.

According to Gill’s blog account, Super Columbine Massacre RPG! is one of his most favorite games, together with GTA. Danny “Columbin” Ledonn, amateur developer of the game, immediately shares his regrets for the young man that “had lost touch with reality,” and just seemed to have “no grasp on any kind of moral compass.”

In a rather contrasting statement though, Ledonn admits that the game was “never intended as entertainment, but an indictment of our violent society, which always ends with a villainÂ’s suicide.” He casually refers to his RPG as the psychological exploration of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, suspects of the the 1999 killings. Accordingly, news headlines all over television ring virtually the same: the gunman was obsessed with extremely violent videogames. Networks that were able to cover the news include ABC News, CanadaÂ’s Canoe Live and the Associated Press.

VampireFreaks.com, host of Gill’s blog, was quick to comment that they do not tolerate such actions. The administrator of the site has this message to all its members: “Media likes to associate crimes with gothic culture because it makes a better story for them. So, I just want to ask our members to really try to set a good example to the world, to show that we really are caring, responsible, non-violent people.”

Via NextGen.biz

Ghosts of the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre haunt everyone today, as a rampage of the same nature occurred recently at Dawson College in Montreal, Canada. As of this writing, two people are dead while six others are in a life or death condition. The suspect is 25-year old Kimveer Gill, avid fan of videogames with violent nature. Unsurprisingly, the media implies the games served as inspiration for the killings.

According to Gill’s blog account, Super Columbine Massacre RPG! is one of his most favorite games, together with GTA. Danny “Columbin” Ledonn, amateur developer of the game, immediately shares his regrets for the young man that “had lost touch with reality,” and just seemed to have “no grasp on any kind of moral compass.”

In a rather contrasting statement though, Ledonn admits that the game was “never intended as entertainment, but an indictment of our violent society, which always ends with a villainÂ’s suicide.” He casually refers to his RPG as the psychological exploration of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, suspects of the the 1999 killings. Accordingly, news headlines all over television ring virtually the same: the gunman was obsessed with extremely violent videogames. Networks that were able to cover the news include ABC News, CanadaÂ’s Canoe Live and the Associated Press.

VampireFreaks.com, host of Gill’s blog, was quick to comment that they do not tolerate such actions. The administrator of the site has this message to all its members: “Media likes to associate crimes with gothic culture because it makes a better story for them. So, I just want to ask our members to really try to set a good example to the world, to show that we really are caring, responsible, non-violent people.”

Via NextGen.biz