I know nothing about video games as I am still in the Pac-Man world (and I suck at that as well.) But I find this game concept unconventional and a bit unnerving. Not because I abhor violence of any kind, real or make believe. Not because I am anti-gun, because I am not. But as much as I hate to admit it, I agree in part with Glen Beck, "“Let’s go to the game that has just come out that makes American constitutionalists and Tea Party people the enemy. And you can go and shoot them,” Beck said on his radio show.“Anybody have a problem with this?”"
I do. But, I also see a bit of hypocrisy: the alleged "targeting" of political opponents that may have contributed to the Gifford shooting in 2011. The numerous calls for lynching the President. The Cliven Bundy fiasco and its influence. While the list is endless I think y'all get my point.
All that aside, there are three points being missed by Beck. One, the Tea Party is made up of radical extremists; although they don't see themselves as such, many outside individuals do. Two, Beck and the "American constitutionalists and Tea Party people" claim this game portrays them. Are they identifying with the extremists? Either they aren't like the people portrayed, or they are. And three,"Beck and his guests wondered how younger people will be able to “differentiate” between the bad guys in the video game, and real life Tea Party types." This game is rated M (17+), "younger people" shouldn't be playing it in the first place. For those non-younger individuals that do play, If they can't differentiate between game violence and real violence, the problem is not with the game.
If the shoe fits Glen,,,
Conservatives up in arms over video game with sovereign citizen Tea Partiers as the bad guys
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