Following Newtown Shootings, Algonquin Arcade Pulls Violent Games
No Limit Arcade has unplugged and plans to replace 12 video games that involve shooting and killing humans.
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With the hopes of being part of the solution instead of the problem, the owners of No Limit Arcade in Algonquin have unplugged twelve violent shooting games at its business, according to local media reports.
In light of the fatal shooting in Newtown, Conn., owners Mark Battaglia and Kevin Slota decided to eliminate all of the games that involved shooting and killing humans, according to the Daily Herald.
The decision was further spurred by a recent exchange between two young kids at the arcade, Battaglia told the Northwest Herald. After playing a first-person shooter game, the kids then pretended to shoot each other, according to the NW Herald.
Some of the games pulled from the arcade include: Revolution X, Virtua Cop 2, Maximum Force, Warzaid, Gunblade, The House of the Dead, CarnEvil, Zombie Raid.
No Limit Arcade, 2719 Algonquin Road, opened last year and also features several classic video games, such as Pac-Man, Frogger and Pinball.
Do you think playing violent video games can lead to violent behavior? Tell us in the comments' section.
Dan Arenov
12:07 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
An interesting decision by the business owners. Ultimately, they have to sleep at night and deal with their conscience.
When discussing the mass shootings that have taken place at schools, movie theatres, etc. over the last so many years, a question comes up in the debate.
"there were guns back in the day and this stuff wasn't happening...what is different now?"
Violence is more prevalent on television and movies. There are these violent video games. There are more 'broken' family units because of divorce.
..but the main reason that we are seeing more of these mass shootings may be because of...psychotropic drugs.
The majority of these shooters were being prescribed A.D.D. type medications.
Most of the patients who take these drugs respond well to the treatment. However, the pharmaceutical companies who make them admit that a small pctg. of patients have violent reactions to them. Some patients have a disconnect from reality. Adding to this problem is that young adults skip doses, refuse to take their pills, sell them on the street, etc.. When a person who is on a psychotropic drug doesn't take them regularly as prescribed, it can really mess them up.
Just today, the FBI admitted that James Holmes, who was the Aurora shooter, had several bottles of prescription pills in his room. This was to be expected.
Pretty soon, the media will be forced to talk about this. Right now, it doesn't fit the narrative.
Si
7:28 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
You are correct, Dan, take away the medication. It is not people who kill it is their pills. You sound like that crazy person on Piers Morgan the other night. How about the gov't using the tax dollars accumulated on the legal purchase of rifles (not militia type weapons) and provide better health care and facilities for the mentally ill. Instead of just medicating them, which they do not continue to take as soon as they feel better. BTW, violent reactions are not just the adverse effects of ADHD meds, but some people are just pure evil.
Dan Arenov
8:33 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
LMAO! you watch Piers Morgan?
Send him a letter and let him know. I'm sure he would appreciate it. BTW, you are going to have to stay up a little longer to watch him...they are booting him out of his current time slot because he doesn't get any...not enough viewers.
Si
7:32 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
"When a person who is on a psychotropic drug doesn't take them regularly as prescribed, it can really mess them up."
I would like to know where, exactly, you got this information? Sounds like an opinion to me. Please provide your sources.
Dan Arenov
8:41 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
"sounds like an opinion to me".
Si, i'll let you in on something. Most everything you hear and read is based on opinion. We used to think the e.g., New York Times or CBS News with Cronkite was based on reliable FACTS, but now we know that Cronkite let his ideology effect his broadcasts and that the New York Times has a liberal worldview.
Take anything that anybody says with a grain of salt. Read opposing viewpoints. Make your own decisions on what is FACT, and what is not.
Regarding my post here, i'm just connecting the dots. The mainstream media doesn't want to talk about the point that most of these young men, mostly white, between 17 & 25, who have been committing these mass murders in public places are taking ADHD medications. They are pushing for gun control and don't want to jeopardize their momentum by talking about this angle. Yeah, that's my opinion and i'm sticking to it.
Si
7:43 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
And, no, Google is not a source.
Si
9:04 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Thats more like it...Insulting Dan is back again. Psychotropic drugs cover a wide spectrum, from antidepressant, antipsychotic , antisiezure to ADHD meds. No literature says that a small percentage of people who take this for ADD alone may have "violent reactions to them" or can be "really messed up". There was something else going on. My point was that these young, white males probably are not getting properly diagnosed or properly cared for by this countries inadequate health care system.
Dan Arenov
9:09 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Thanks for your opinion on this issue, Si. Everybody's opinion carries the same weight.
Si
9:09 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Isn't it funny, Dan, how your 1st amendment right will probably be taken away. We have spoken on many occasions to the writers and editors of the Patch and they made it clear to us that they are watching your comments and may soon stop allowing you to voice "your opinion" on here. Just FYI.