Maren Williams has posted an article on Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s website about a community in Connecticut that will be burning material deemed to be violent in content. This is being done in Southington Community by a public organization, Southington SOS, within the community and is not sponsored by the local government. It is a buy back program where the group will give out gift vouchers to area businesses for Video Games, CD’s and DVD’s that people hand over. The collected items will then be snapped, discarded and possibly incinerated. The article goes on and explains that:
For many others, however, the impending destruction recalls the past incineration of all kinds of creative works, from Beatles records to — of course — comic books, that some adults thought had a negative influence on youth. In reality, there is no proven link between gun violence and video games, but that has not stopped lawmakers and media commentators from trying to blame them for virtually every mass shooting by a young male since the Columbine massacre in 1999. Of course, this requires ignoring the fact that millions of people around the world, of all sexes and ages, play and enjoy a wide spectrum of video games that some would consider violent without embarking on real-world killing sprees.
Follow the link below for the complete article.
http://cbldf.org/2013/01/video-games-to-be-destroyed-in-connecticut-town/