You were lucky to have such parents. The CAR-PGa archives have cases where parents have committed aggravated assault on their kids because of some deluded authority figure. In fact, one of the founders of CAR-PGa ended up in the hospital from this.
I am afraid that we may be in for more of this. The same political/theological/social forces behind the original attacks on RPG back in the 1980-90s, are now conducting a campaign of hate against all not like them. While the main targets are gays, Muslims, and Hispanics, they have also targeted Blacks, Asians, Jews, Catholics, liberals, film and TV producers, gamers, scientists, cooperatives, kids, public schools, government, etc., etc. If you read the comments on the Tacoma story, you see we have a lot of support out there from the average gamer. As Joe Hill said, "Don't mourn, organize!"
While I have been glad CAR-PGa has had a vacation from game defense and has gotten on to more basic research for the advancement of role-playing games, we must be prepared to defend our games once again. Indeed, the better prepared we are, the fewer attacks we will need to defend against - if for no other reason, that we can stop individual cases before the lies spread to the epidemic stage it reached under Pulling and Radecki. As distasteful as it is (because we had rather play the games than to defend them), we have done it before and we can do it again.
Paul Cardwell
From: forest <hiver7772006@gmail.com>
To: CAR-PGa <car-pga@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thu, September 2, 2010 7:37:42 PM
Subject: [car-pga] Re: Just like old times...
Oh man does this bring back memories of my Dad chucking my High School
counselor out the door on her ear for coming to our home and demanding
I quit gaming. I am 45 years of age a Preacher and small business
owner gaming really hurt me huh?
On Aug 31, 1:36 pm, WJ Walton <rpgadvoc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (Cut and pasted from The Escapist Blog - theescapist.com/blog)<p>
>
> This is not a repeat from the mid-1980s: A young man committed a
> heinous crime, and detectives are investigating the connection between
> his acts and a popular game.
>
> Tyler Savage raped and killed a 16-year-old mentally disabled girl,
> then went to a friend's house to play some Dungeons & Dragons Online
> to help "cope" with what he had done. Now detectives are considering
> the possibility that Savage may have been inspired by the game to
> commit the crime.
>
> "Detectives investigating the strangulation death of 16-year-old
> Kimmie Daily are trying to determine whether her accused killer might
> have been acting out a violent fantasy from Dungeons and Dragons.
>
> The video game theory comes from something Tyler Savage himself said
> to investigators. He talked about playing a video game to cope with
> what he'd just done. Detectives now want to know if that game somehow
> became his point of reference on reality."
>
> If Savage had mentioned playing basketball, golf, chess, or poker to
> "cope" with what he had done, there would be no similar investigation.
> This is total speculation on my part, but I think the name "Dungeons &
> Dragons" may have something to do with this.
>
> Then we see a classic example of an article that doesn't agree with
> its headline:
>
> "Detectives are working with an expert in sexually violent fantasies
> to explore the video game motive, but the true cause for this crime is
> still unknown. They aren't blaming a game for this violence, but they
> are trying to understand what triggered this murder and why."
>
> "(Detectives) aren't blaming a game for this violence" doesn't exactly
> match the title: "Detectives: Murder motive may have been video game
> fantasy." This happens a lot with stories like these, when the
> journalist writes the story, and the editor decides what the title
> will be.
>
> The odds are that when this comes to trial, Savage's lawyer will
> attempt a game defense, which has never worked. When it doesn't,
> they'll switch to something else, like an insanity plea. History will
> likely repeat itself due to those who refuse to learn from it.
>
> Read the full article here:http://www.komonews.com/news/local/101525398.html
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