Posted on 01/03/2013 11:06:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A Connecticut town thirty miles from Sandy Hook will give people $25 to incinerate their violent video games.
Southington, Connecticut is encouraging owners of violent video games to deposit them in a local dumpster near a drive-in movie theater, so that the games can be collected and destroyed. In return, the local Chamber of Commerce will give participants $25 gift cards to be used toward purchases of non-violent entertainment.
The Violent Video Game Return Program has the backing of a diverse coalition of groups, including the Chamber of Commerce, YMCA, fire department, board of education, as well as town officials and clergy members.
The program was born out of a desire to respond proactively to the recent shooting at Sandy Hook elementary that left over 20 children dead, which some say was caused in part by violent video games.
Southington schools superintendent Joe Erardi hopes the program will prompt parents to talk to their kids about violent video games...
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LOL! But, when I think about it, I like the idea. However, people are going to bring in their old NES cartridges. Double Dragon was pretty violent. I wonder if Mario Bros. would qualify. Mario (or Luigi) punched Yoshi in the back of the head, then Yoshi extended his tongue and swallowed his enemies. Frightening!
This is great! I have about 20 old games that Game Stop would give me about 50 cents for...but the state will pony up $20! Sweet! Haha gotta love the smell of idiots in the morning.
Aha! I should have read a couple more posts before contributing.
“...to be used towards non-violent entertainment...”
LOL! I would like to see them enforce THAT! Even if they tried, what does it leave?
Movies tickets? Hrm. No. The Hobbit sure contained a lot of fight scenes.
Books? Nope. Twilight, The Hunger Games, and Harry Potter all had a lot of fighting and death.
Music? Have they even HEARD the rap and hip-hop BS lately?
Sports? Football is WAAAAAY violent! I’m not even going to mention boxing. (Oh, snap, I just did.)
Board games? Risk is about WAR!
I suppose someone *could* take a pottery class. Or a painting class.
(What idiots.)
This hogwash about violent video games causing these shootings is absolute bovine excrement.
i wonder if they consider startegy wargames as violent video games. i don’t. they are completely different from FPS games. i have nuked entire countires in some of these, turned hill 221 into hill 121 with massed artillery and run over infantry with tanks. doesn’t make me want to do it to my neighbore, well at least not the first two.
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