Despicable Dawson College Shooting Video Game - Gardner & Friends All For It?

The Dawson College Student Union is campaigning to stop a despicable video game that allows one to play the role of the shooter. Gardner & friends' own logic should lead them to agree with the game's creator and defenders. Do they? I'm not trying to be harsh, but that is the position they took on the "play Taliban killing Canadians" game. I know it all seemed like an intellectual game to them, but that was my whole point about desensitisation. We are at war. It's not a game,a joke, it's not unreal, however much it's made to seem that way. Canadians are being killed and wounded, crippled. Just as the Dawson shooter did. If you're fine with one, you should be with the other - perhaps Gardner, Potter, etc., can tell us how much fun they had playing the Dawson game, just as they said and did about all the other shooter games, eh? Doubtless you all agree with these charming people:

But another posted defended the game as art.

“What about all the other movies and videos etc based on other school shootings?” the user asked.

In an e-mail interview with QMI Agency, the game’s creator said he never intended to offend. Virtuaman also compared himself to a storyteller.

“I think video games are art for sure,” he wrote. “They are nothing else. They are art in motion, regardless of the topic.”

He said he created the game because he was concerned about school shootings and has no plans to remove his violent creation.

“I believe that I depicted the events in the least offensive way possible, believe it or not.”