The question is whether to give views to this controversial video game by way of big media platforms. In this case it’s Active Shooter, the PC Video Game that invites gamers to Simulate and run a School Shooting to Kill.

Active Shooter a PC Video Game that allows players to simulate school shootings is being put down by parents, child health advocates, and elected officials.

Going around on social media and news websites shows the game; tracking how many civilians or cops are killed and how much ammunition you have left as the user.

Child Psychologist Wendy Rice says her first thought is she is horrified as a person, thinking parents need to let their kids know that this is too close for comfort and that parents should not let their kids buy this video game.

Valve Corporation is the website offering the School Shooting game. It runs Steam and lists Revived Games as the developer. Ryan Petty whose daughter Alaina was killed in a school shooting think its disgusting that valve corporation is trying to profit from the glamorization of tragedies.

Developers of ‘Active Shooter’ says the video game allows users to “protect and extract, or hunt and destroy.” But it asks the users not to take it seriously, and to call a psychiatrist or 911 if they feel the need to hurt someone.

A post said they were considering removing the ability for a user to be the shooter. Senator Bill Nelson tweeted this game is “inexcusable”

Wendy asked “How did this become a Game?”. “How is shooting police officers a game when the job of the officers in this game is to protect innocent children and teachers?”. Wendy says the discussions she has with her patients show the correlation between video games and violence is inconclusive.

Looking at it from a technical perspective, Active Shooter doesn’t look like it’s dripping with bleeding edge graphics, nor does it appear to have much depth to it’s narrative or moral weight. It reminds of another derided and controversial video game called “Hatred” which featured a killer on a crusade to commit massive genocide against the human race; killing because he wanted to kill.

Hatred featured a top-down view which made it less graphical. Active Shooter plays like an FPS (First-Person Shooter) where you aim down your sights and slaughter teenage students.

A person could argue that we play games like Fortnite and PUBG which assigns us to kill every other person on the map for nothing more than bragging rights and prizes. For s to kill thousands of enemy combatants in Battlefield, blow up entire city blocks and virtually murder innocent policemen and civilians in Grand Theft Auto.

Active Shooter is not forcing anyone to play as a thoughtless murderer. It’s presented as a gameplay of choice. It’s definitely not ok in the minds of many, but it is worth talking about.

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