What Can I Say

The last school shootings in Germany this week has sent ripples of disbelief and sadness across the world. Ones again someone snapped and caused grief for families, friends and a whole society. And at this moment we have the moral guardians descending upon us like vultures that have found their prey. Especially in Sweden were we are fortunate to not have any so far. These so called experts on various subjects goes forward and try to explain why this has happened and how we should deal with it. Number 1, and most logical to me is that it's because of bullying (I'm sorry, it's in Swedish). No explanation is needed here really.

2) One is due to the school systems authority. Don't know much about it, except that some German friends have discussed the pressure they feel on failing and that it sometimes means stop in the education ladder.

3) One of those that I really don't approve of is that the shootings was due to the murderers habit to play first-person shooters games. Or more like that we feed young children (mostly boys as stated in the article) images about "glorified violence". That could be justified, but as the NRA would say, guns don't kill people, people kills people (and I really dislike the NRA). First of all that their is very few that snaps and therefore creates non-existing relationship or if you believe in statistic, you could always argue that because so many plays, the chance of snapping is lower. Secondly, if I remember correctly, the school shootings in Finland was caused by someone that played a Sonic game. Violent indeed.

4) The one I find most despicable is that the reason behind because he is a man. Firstly we can dismiss that with the fact that one of the first was carried out by a 16 year old girl (I blame it to the access of weapon). Secondly that the writer is the same person that a couple a years ago was reported on camera to have stated that "men are animals" during her time as president of the organization of female duty groupes groups (ROKS) and other controversies that she supported a theory that Swedish men belonged to a satanic cult that murdered women and children (or so I got the impression). Not that credible then.

So a cunclusion would be due to my social life and school form I'm alright, but due to be a man and playing semi-violent games I would start a war with society. Thank God no one mentioned Heavy Metal again, then I would really be worried. Back to the video game theory, I have been playing this demo of Europa Universalis 3. Playing as Sweden of course (really, who wouldn't play as their ow nation?) I first embarked on a failed attempt to conquer Scandinavia when the damn French and Scottish joined the Danish-Norwegians. Second game a peacfull economy power was my goal until the damn Russians invaded and my alliance with Denmark was a total disaster. Thirdly, nothing happened. Fourthly I was so pissed of that I sank my economy, trained forces of 26 000 soldiers, took back all the land of Sweden and most of Norway. So what does this tell me? That my excessive playing and that I'm a man created for violence will use it to attack Norway and Denmark. I'm not killing anyone, I send other to kill each other. Like that would ever happened.