If you are online at the time change your comment window to “OSCeaseFire” If you are on a social network used the hashtag #OSCeaseFire. If you see people participating on the Dec 21st, post pictures on this page.
In the wake of Friday's tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., GamerFitNation founder Antwand Pearman is calling for a one-day "ceasefire" among those who play online shooting games.
Pearman wants gamers to "just put your controller down and show your love" on Friday, as part of the Day of Ceasefire For Online Shooters.
At this point, there has been no reported link between violent video games and Friday's shooting, which left 20 children and six adults dead. Pearman also says on his Facebook page that "we are not blaming video games." Instead, "I'm asking for a demonstration of peace — the one thing that money can't buy," Pearman said in a video message (below) about the effort. "I'm not asking for funds. If anything, I ask [that] you donate to the families of the victims when that becomes available. What I'm asking for is a ceasefire."
In the video, the game enthusiast talks about his own childhood, growing up around gun violence, and how he wants the world to know that gamers have hearts, too.
Pearman, who is the CEO and Founder of GamerFitNation, is organizing an online cease fire for this coming Friday, Dec. 21. He wants all gamers to put down the controllers and stop firing virtual bullets to honor those who were killed by real bullets last Friday.
"I wanted to make a statement. I wanted gamers to come together to say we don't accept this. This doesn't say we blame video games. We just believe this is for us to do to show respect to the victims. It's a small sacrifice for a day," Pearman told ABC News. .
shadowgrin wrote:bowdown wrote:That Ryan Lanza comes off as a douche himself in his facebook posts.
Dunno if trolling or stupid.
bowdown wrote:PS: I give two shits about the technical terms for the guns. Those types should be heavily regulated and restricted amongst ordinary citizens.
bowdown wrote:His mom just died and his brother killed himself after killing 20 kids. He is more worried about telling people to stfu on facebook. Yeah that is quite the appropriate response. Even if people are wrongfully blaming him the last thing to do is go on facebook to tell people to stfu after ur mom and brother have been killed along with 26 people.
shadowgrin wrote:You don't need to be Batman or an investigator to figure it out. He didn't know his brother killed himself or was the shooter because the police wrongfully identified the killer, him. Since a giant news organization just fucked up their information, it's easy to dismiss or continue denying that your mom is among the casualties until you find out for yourself like calling her which he wasn't able to do at first because he was at work.
In other words he didn't know anything that his family was involved at that point and only knew that an international news source is accusing him of killing children.
benji wrote:It wasn't just one news source. The police gave the wrong name to everyone.
bowdown wrote:(Especially the "semi-automatic" types.)
CBS 2’s Lou Young met one seventh grader in Newtown on Thursday who was gathering a selection of his personal video games. He was getting rid of them for one reason and said he wants you to get rid of yours as well.
“All of it is kill, just kill as many people as you can without dying,” Max Goldstein said.
Each one is what they call a “first-person shooter,” a game in which the player looks at a digital landscape through the sights of a weapon and uses it on enemies.
They are among the most popular games on the market; violent, engaging, and, some say, addictive. In the aftermath of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Goldstein and his brother decided it was a digital world they could no longer embrace.
“I really think it’s rude and disrespectful to the families, who lost children, to play these games,” Goldstein said.
With his parents help he’s created a group called “Played Out” that uses the slogan “We choose not to play.” It urges fellow kids to ditch their violent games as well. Bins will be going up in Newtown on Friday.
“We hope people will drop off … and destroy them,” said Jackson Mittleman, Goldstein’s brother.
The adults are wondering why they didn’t think of it first.
“It’s just great. I think it’s just great the kids thought of something,” said Roberta Mittleman, the boys’ mother.
Goldstein said his goal is to reduce violent video games by a third in American homes. You can start by dropping them off Friday.
Notice how these people are getting their panties in a wad when their "innocent" video games,movies,and music are getting blamed,we need no rational conversation,ban them all right now and shut down the "entertainment industrial complex".
If the kids are saying it...it should be done. They should have a video game bonfire!
Good we need to get rid of this garbage created by liberals....AND the violent movies created by liberal Hollywood....funny the libs want to blame the NRA but not their own "kind" the liberal Hollywood elite!
Violence with out a moral component in entertainment is unacceptable.
It's like pornography for children. Enough.
shadowgrin wrote:benji wrote:It wasn't just one news source. The police gave the wrong name to everyone.
STILL DOESN'T GIVE HIM THE RIGHT TO ACT LIKE THE DOUCHE THAT I PERCEIVE HIM TO BE ON FACEBOOK BY TELLING EVERYONE TO STFU!111!! NOT APPROPRIATE PLEASE!!111! HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MOAR APOLOGETIC SO HE WON'T BE ON MY DOUCHE LIST1111!. FEEL MY VIBRATION IF YOU WANT TO BELIEVE ME! YOU CAN DO THAT BY SITTING ON MY LAP11! FEEL IT!
ixcuincle wrote:Video games have been important to Japan for decades, yet there is nearly no gun violence there.
ixcuincle wrote:It's sad what happened, but video games are not to blame here. They are simply an easy target and scapegoat to skirt the real issue; mental health in America.
PEople play video games around the world, yet only America is afflicted by gun violence. Video games have been important to Japan for decades, yet there is nearly no gun violence there.
hova- wrote:As long as there are people in the US who claim that you should fight those bad persons with a gun by giving a gun to a "good" person, there is no chance to help that country.
A gunman set a trap and shot and killed two firefighters responding to an early morning blaze in Webster, N.Y., police officials said. Two other firefighters were also shot and both are listed in guarded condition at a local hospital.
koberulz wrote:hova- wrote:As long as there are people in the US who claim that you should fight those bad persons with a gun by giving a gun to a "good" person, there is no chance to help that country.
What else are you supposed to use?
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