Game Backlash

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It had to happen, parents upset with America's Army Operations game. Recruitment tool or not, some parents are concerned the game teaches kids how to be real killers. Thanks Blues News.

Jack Thompson, a father and a Miami attorney is fighting the Pentagon. He says it's wrong for the military to unleash this game on America's youth. "I'm a father of a 10-year-old boy," Thompson says. "And every day I drop him off at school, I know that he's at greater risk because some of his classmates, as well as others in the general population, train obsessively in these shooter games." Thompson, who has represented the parents of children killed in school shootings, says he will file an injunction in federal court next week, if the Army doesn't pull the plug. "While the Defense Department was trying to find the serial sniper in the Washington, D.C., area," he continued, "they were training new snipers to take their place."
Also on ABC News is this article about Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Washington Post columnist Mike Wilbon calls for Rockstar people to be stoned in the street, something which will probably result in a few extra copies being sold.

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