Germany´s minister of interior blames violent video games for the Munich attack?

It´s time to play the "Let´s blame everything on the video games" game again, because the Munich attack appears to have been blamed on violent video games by Germany´s minister of interior. So this would be my (Robin Ek, TGG) take on the matter.

[ScorpiusX]

Prove it with actual proof not hearsay .

[TGG_overlord]

They won´t do that, because they got a hidden agenda which they want to follow through with.

[ULTp0ltergeist]

Yeah, like not blame it on the new labor force?

[shadowfax33]

they can easily fabricate any evidence if they want..they have done it multiple times with those so called (terrorist attacks)..and the sheeps always believe whatever they are told, even if it was obviously a made up story..

[Christopher]

What a horrible hidden agenda. Ruin one of the most profitable industries to sell political views!

[Gardenia]

Yes because depression wasn't the reason. Treatment in a psychiatric hospital wasn't the reason. No, it was playing shooters

I get so fed up with those people blaming music and games for something that goes much deeper than simply a hobby. This world is a fucked up place, and some people just can't handle it. They are going to do stupid shit because the government is failing in actually helping those people

Cost way too much money to help all people in need

[SaveFerris]

Governments can try to censor and/or ban all movies, videos, music etc. that they deem unacceptable, but it still would not stop violent acts like the events in Nice or Munich from being carried out. If someone is determined enough, no law is going to stop them.

[TGG_overlord]

Exactly, you´re 100% spot on. And I hardly believe that the 1972 Munich massacre had anything to do with games...

[uth11]

That was the year pong released though...

[Silly Mammo]

@uth - Coincidence? I think not!

[TheCommentator]

What was to blame for most of the atrocities committed towards man before video games? Religion. Or insanity. I mean, we've had several milennia of violent acts that occured before the advent of video games, gyrating pelvises', and Reefer Madness.

It was once said to me that a good manager looks outwards when things go right, praising those around them for their successes, When thing go poorly, a good manager looks inwards to see how they could have done better with managing their team. It's time for this douché to look at the real problems and not some scapegoat to wash his hands clean with.

[SirBradders]

Intact these incidents would become more common because most of the population would have no form of entertainment.

[Gwynbleidd]

Yeah, unfortunately the conservative wing in Germany always tries to spin, that people that execute such tragic gun rampages like in Munich have been heavyly influenced by violent games. As if that was the cause and not the assassins phsychological problems....
I hate those kind of arguments! I could easily counterargue with some other stupid stuff like: 50% of all gun rampage assassins play videogames but 100% of them eat bread! Stop serving bread!

[iceman06]

Breadxit!?!

[-Foxtrot]

Anything to get the eyes off crack pot Merkel

[TGG_overlord]

That´s the idea.

[Ristul]

Merkel should be deported to the middle east pronto.

[Null1980]

How about the Holocaust? Was that due to video games too? -__-

edit- it was not my intent to make them feel bad about it. The point was that evil has always existed, regardless of video games.

And regardless of what kalebninja says above, it is important to post this article. If the politicians have their way, they'll censor games even more. It's good for everyone to be aware so we can voice our opposition back.

[TGG_overlord]

No, but as you might remember. The original "Wolfenstein 3D" was banned in Germany because of the Natzi-related content. And if I´m not wrong now, the other Wolf titles has been banned as well.

[Null1980]

Yea, my point wasn't to make Germany feel bad about it. Lots of great people from there. I was only pointing out that it's silly to blame video games, bc evil always exists regardless.

And on your point, it's silly to cover things up. Acknowledging will help the world to not make the same mistakes. Assassin's Creed hasn't shyed away from acknowledging slavery, or the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.

[SegaGamer]

Their argument is so stupid that you could counter it with a few words that would leave them totally speechless.

All you need to say to them is "What came first, violence or video games?"

[Simon_the_sorcerer]

Not that I understand how that is going to solve Germany´s problems with terrorism and whatnot.

[Hoffmann]

The amok runner in muninch was a dedicated counterstrike player. The ministers logic is that first person shooters in general make it easier for people to shoot at others since they did it so often in games.

[Omnisonne]

Yeah, only you don't shoot real people in games. Any sane person can understand the difference, therefore the prime issue with these incidents is the mental health of these people. Which apparently seems impossible to understand for politicians.

Imean if gaming had such a great impact on peoples behavior.. shouldn't all gamers be rampaging around with guns by now?

Not aimed towards you btw, just the topic at hand

[Bradk721]

Pressing R1 or R2 on a video game is a lot different than shooting a gun. Playing a shooter game will not help u to be able to shoot a real gun in any way. If u have used guns this is common knowledge. I don't need to prepare my eardrums for a video game gunshot but u better believe I need to prepare them for a real life gunshot if I want to hear anything other than a high pitched wringing noise for the next 2 hours. Also a gun is a bit heavier than controllers/mouse and keyboard. If u want to learn to shoot u have to practice w real weapons, can't learn anything real through gaming.

[NeonGeorg]

Actually, it desensitizes people from violence. But so does experiencing any kind of violence. I do think violent video games did have a part in this action, but that would be barely even a minor part. I am pretty sure he would have done it with or without video games.

[TGG_overlord]

@Kalebninja
Do you even grasp the magnitude of this? If Germany follows through with even stricter censorship and bans on violent games. Then it´s very likely that other countries in the EU will follow their lead. Why shouldn´t I write about it? How often is it that a minister of interior pins down a terror attack on violent games? And by the looks of it, Angle Merkel is backing that statement up.

[Aenea]

If all EU countries just blindly followed Germany we would have the same levels of censorship as they have and thankfully we don't...

[Phill-Spencer]

That's right. We in germany always had very strikt censoring in videogames. I mean come on, we had robots in turok1 instead of human enemies, yeah fu€#ing ROBOTS only to mention on example of thousands. But france, austria, the netherlands and our eastern neighbours had uncut versions of all games. So germany isn't in the leading role that everybody copies when it comes to censorship in games. In fact, situation in germany got way better. We got doom, dead space, gears 3, bloodborne and more uncut in recent years. But svastikas, ss runes etc. are still a no go!!!!!!!!

[Omnisonne]

All they will likely do is create an underground scene though. Much like banning alcohol or pornography, people will keep creating and selling. And developers (albeit small 10-man teams) will continue creating violent games.

Gaming might actually look like the mid 90's again, where being a gamer was equally frowned upon lol

[Deadpooled]

Kalebninja loves articles posted on here which have a headline that can be perceived as "pro-censorship" (not saying your article headline is "pro censorship" as it highlights mainly the statement by that German minister), whether it is something like the topic here or something befitting of the SJW agenda (eg R Mika/Tracer butt censorship, nipple censorship on Cammy etc).

[Kornholic]

They are willing to blame everything else except their failed immigration policies.

[Hoffmann]

The guy was completely integrated

[CoDsuperstar]

yet was screaming allahu akbar. muslims don't belong in germany.

[Liqu1d]

The shooter was born and raised in Germany, he suffered from mental illness and was obsessed with mass killers and terrorists.

[Aither]

The shooter was half Iranian and was obsessed with terrorist attacks.

[Artemidorus]

Finding more excuses and more bans when the truth is, the political parties are at fault for not providing the correct safety of their own country.

The person in question had been beaten by some local thugs years ago, suffered depression, gained an illegal firearm and planned his madness.

Not one person questioned or reported him during his depression state but it's ok because it's all tbe fault of violent video games.

[2cents]

That's what I got too from looking into his recorded past.

Social misfit, treated like shit by his peers, no friends, no outlet, no understanding.

Humanity is in low regard these days. Anger and hate is being fed to us all, in all corners of the globe.

This whole thing is just tragic.

[remixx116]

Very logical comment, I say just enjoy life and the people around you but it seems others disagree.

[2cents]

I think this is well written and highlights one of the key issues here. Politicians smearing over the real problems with FUD regarding gaming and distract from the real policies and issues that cause unrest, disillusion and societal decay.

A video game did not cause any of these deaths. If anything, video games are an escape from the true horror that surrounds us on a daily basis. This world is quite frankly disgusting, the nations of the world and their stupid leaders are the ones with blood on their hands, not F'kn gamers.

[DC777]

Newsflash. There have always been and will always be crazy people.

[zielocz3k]

I blame this stupid ***** Merkel

[nick309]

Why not blame movies and tv shows? Why just video games? Stupid

[Ark_]

... or something random, like insufficient room ventilation and lightning.

[DivineAssault]

Thats like blaming forks for obesity.. Stupid idiotic logic. People are always trying to blame something instead of the person.

[opinionated]

Doesnt Germany still censor the living shit out their games? It's like France blaming the terrorist attacks on gun control laws. These people are like my president, utterly retarded. Blame everything but the people doing the shit. It's radical Nutjob Islamists. It's not video games, guns or anything else.

[Tibbers]

No, unless it's nazi symbolism which is forbidden by law since 1945. A law introduced by the Allied Control Council (denazification).

[opinionated]

Why is it still a law? Germany isn't only a part of the "allies" now, they pretty much run the EU.

[Tibbers]

Imagine being a survivor of a concentration camp in WW2. How would you feel if people would run around in swastika t-shirts waving the flag of Nazi Germany? "Why is it still a law?" Laws can't be changed from one day to another and the current population of Germany still gets constantly blamed for WW2. Also, don't forget this: The Federal Republic of Germany is still quite young. We had a split East and West Germany (restricted sovereignty) until 1990.

[opinionated]

Would people run around in Swastika t-shirts if it were legal? You would think if people were nazis they wouldn't care if it was legal or not. Laws can change day to day, let alone decades and the vast majority of the current population wasn't alive during ww2 or ww1. Ignoring shitty history doesn't change anything. If anything it dooms us to repeat.

[Tibbers]

"Would people run around in Swastika t-shirts if it were legal?" Neo-Nazis and extremely idiotic far-rights, yes.
"let alone decades" Like I said, Germany wasn't 100% "free" from the allies and the soviets until 1990.
"vast majority of the current population wasn't alive during ww2 or ww1." While that's true, it (sadly) doesn't change anything. It's maybe hard to understand as a non-German.
"Ignoring". Nobody is ignoring anything. It's actually the complete opposite. The World Wars and Nazi Germany are huge topics in school and quite prominent in media.

[opinionated]

- I'm sure that is a minuscule minority that isn't being held back by any laws.

- Yeah, 1990 was almost 3 decades ago. Now Germany runs the EU lol.

- Who blames the current population for ww2? Germany itself or other Europeans?

- if that's the case then that law is pretty dumb wouldn't you agree? It seems like typical safe spacing in Americans universities. Don't want to trigger the German youth by playing wolfenstein lol.

[Tibbers]

" Germany itself or other Europeans?" Non-Germans.

[TrollsBringer]

Video Games play a rule for sure. The problem is those people are already crazy and messed up. Video Games entice them more.

[MagicBeanz]

Could just be a miss translation, trusting Google Translate to be accurate is a bit foolhardy.

[Jayszen]

People kill people and Hitler never played video games. I am sure that the majority of gamers play all kinds of games, some even violent, without ever having felt the need to buy and gun and kill innocent people. Games are just as likely to prevent violence by allowing people an avenue to vent their frustrations. My best friend is disabled and loves playing shooters because they distract him from his physical problems and help him with his depression Rather than blaming games, the politician should blame foreign policies that have allowed terrorism to flourish.

[CrimsonWing69]

Aren't violent games censored in Germany? I think he'd have a better case against violent movies...oh wait, no my bad, he likes movies so we'll not mention those. Let's just mention the medium he doesn't care about.

[Tibbers]

Not really. Australia's rating board is a lot stricter than Germany's.

[GeraltOfRevia]

You can blame political correctness for what's been happening.

[NecoTehSergal]

To think we were over the stupidity of 'adults' and 'adult politicians' acting childish and making idiotic claims on video games to reveal how misinformed, uneducated they are. Like we need more embarrassment in the political-sphere.

[SynestheticRoar]

That fool be smoking.

[SegaSaturn669]

"violent extremist groups" Good luck cracking down on muslims.

[medman]

What a dumb f%#^....might as well blame, television, movies, and religion while you're at it. Yikes.

[NeonGeorg]

What about music, books, violent play, and violent stories? Are these to be free to infect our children to become terrorists?!

[Christopher]

Dat death count in Hamlet, though. Better keep your children safe, stick to Paddington Bear.

[Lordani66]

Then how come it never happens in Poland, where gaming is extremely popular here?

Also - what makes me laugh even more - Germany has very strict politics when it comes to video games, and they like to ban and censore gore/brutal games, more than most countries (they are on the level of Australia pre-2012).

[Ripple]

We're not on that level anymore. Yeah I am from Germany. We had those strict rules in the past, but there wasn't a banned/censored game for years now.

In the past they censored GTA, every single Zombie Game and banned all the Mortal Kombat games. We got all of them uncensored now.

[Lordani66]

Oh okay good to know. I thought that it's still like that.This doesn't change what I said in the first sentence though. Your minister is a... I won't even call him by what his real name should be :D.

[quent]

So many games to choose from to blame, how does he go by doing it I wonder, in i-mini-mine-mo ?

Correlation between violence and videogames does not give causation to any act of violence by any person, you don't play videogames to train/plan/prepare yourself on how your going to murder another human being.

[Tibbers]

"So many games to choose from to blame, how does he go by doing it I wonder, in i-mini-mine-mo ? "

Multiple Steam accounts were discovered (thousands of hours in different CS games) and he had a BF4 wallpaper on his phone. That's all we know right now.

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

I guess we're going to ignore the plethora of mental issues the guy had?

[Christopher]

Of course. Mental health issues doesn't sell ad slots or create a political image for the purposes of scaring people into one line of thought over another.

[Mithan]

There is scientific evidence that supports that Violent Games can affect some crazy people in bad ways. You can't beat science.

Of course, smoking can kill you too, yet we allow people to smoke.

The focus should be on identifying crazy people and getting them help, not blaming games. Politicians are generally going to go for easy answers, since the people who elect them are usually too stupid to delve deeply into an issue.

As well, parents who care and properly raise their children are a big bonus here.

[Lordani66]

There is a scientific proof that people kill people with knifes. BAN KNIFES!
There is a scientific proof that people kill people with cars. BAN CARS!
There is a scientific proof that people kill people with mean comments (and make them commit suicide). BAN TALKING!
Etc... (yes, I know you said that it doesn't mean anything, I'm just saying how stupid THEIR thinking is when used on other examples :) )

[GrimmyReaper]

Well, why don't we spend a few million euro's researching if this is true?
I mean, it's not like there have already been many researches about this and millions of dollars spend on this kinda thing.
/s

[AnubisG]

Yep, it's video games. It's not radical islam at all. It's video games./s

[quent]

Did they maybe find any books, music or movies he liked listen to or watching ?, I'd like to redirect the blame to those forms of media if possible.

Bottom line is they should spend less time blaming someone's hobby for their motivations and pull up their big boy pants and try to prevent this from happening in the future.

[stalepie]

Ironically (?), some of the books he was into were on shootings themselves, like psychological analyses.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/new...

"Why Kids Kill - Inside the Minds of School Shooters"
"Rampage in Head: Why Students Kill'"

http://www.mirror.co.uk/new...

And a picture of Anders Breivik as his WhatsApp profile pic.

[discobastard]

Terrible article

It's already been stated that this was not linked to terrorism and that the guy was obsessed with mass shootings

People with illnesses that society ignores and let's slip through the cracks, blindly fobbing them off with pharmaceuticals that may or may not help their mental state is probably a far more appropriate place to look to for answers as to why things like this happen. The lack of financial support mental health service get in most countries is terrible.

Another point that needs addressing is that the offender bought the gun online. How the holy fuck did that happen in the first place...

[Gwiz]

They let a lot of potential violence cross their borders but but but videogames.How people like this get to represent society is beyond me.

[Segata]

Old white men are to blame for blaming things.

[babis1974]

so, all the violence,all the ancient wars, WWI,WW2, is because of the games....

[SirBradders]

What next, blaming rape on porn, pregnancy on TV and armed robbery on books.

[TheTwelve]

One day, all the liberal excuses will run out and then the problem will truly be solved. Too bad many will die until then.

[xerokai]

Wait... is it 1997 again?

[Tzuno]

Violence existed before videogames, people like these with inferior thinking or sneaky thinking i might say, who knows, blames videogames because it's easier to put blame on something rather than find the real problem, and to think it's a minister...pfff

[ape007]

the shooting is fake

[NerdStalker]

Really pathetic that this politician would blame something as fun and harmless as computer games when it's so clear that his motives were possibly religious ones, no doubt they fear reprisals from the German people if it's was religious inspired attacks so he pins it on computer games ridiculous.

[Antifan]

Europe is weak. Germany is weak. They got that beta-male thing going on. Most, if not all, Islamic apologists.

[Mrveryodd]

Where are you from oh strong one?

[Antifan]

Texas, US.

[Fullmetalevolust]

Why not look at mental illness? but I guess blaming violent video games is more tangible(although no good studies can prove it, and state otherwise)

[rocketpanda]

And I feel let down by politicians pointing to whatever popular medium to blame for any kind of atrocities as an easy excuse.

Politics and gaming don't mix.

[bangoskank]

Why doesn't anyone ever blame religion and stupidity?

[Mrveryodd]

I have been playing video games since the start , I have never wanted to kill anybody
This is no reflection on the German people of today but ,
Let's not forget how many people were killed by Germans less than a life time ago and that had nothing to do with video games.
At the end of the day human beings are just shit .... The only animal on earth that kills for sport, fun etc

[Angerfist]

The shooter of 18 years old played CS GO for 1000 hours!
The Motivation for his action lie within mobbing from classmates tho. My Government does not want to adrress that issue tho as he got mobbed by other immigrant children. They would only adress it if German kids did it so they can blame racism for it.

[WelkinCole]

umm the guy apparently idolized mass shooters. Games has none to do with this.

[Ripple]

I am from Germany and I can't imagine a single game in the last 2-3 years being censored the way it happened in the past. 5 years ago no one would ever have thought about going to a local store and grabbing an uncensored copy of Mortal Kombat. We're even more liberal than other countries when it's coming to other things than violence. Witcher 2 for example was rated 16+ here, while other countries banned it because of evil "titties" and profane language. Or the outcry in some countries about the hot coffee mod. How could something like this (not even full nudity) be considered offensive, while stabbing or shooting someone isn't? It's just that most of the people here think, that killing people is much worse than swearing & sex, hence the differences in ratings. The only thing they're still censoring is swastikas, SS-runes and a lot of things related to WW2 and Adolf Hitler. In movies and on TV it's allowed to use those signs, yet on games it is forbidden, since those are not considered "art" by law.

On topic: Ultraviolent games are usually rated 18+ here. The most discussed game (in media) for some reason is Counter-Strike, which is rated 16+. Whenever something bad happens, when someone goes nuts and starts a rampage, they usually find a copy of CS on their PCs. That makes those 60+ years old politicians think "THAT'S WHAT THEY ALL HAVE IN COMMON". Things are already getting more liberal and when those old people are leaving politics, younger people who grew up with games like CS (and still didn't kill anyone in real life) will replace them and there won't be a senseless discussion like this anymore.

On banned games: There are practically no "banned games", except Manhunt and Condemned. You can still buy 99% of them legally in some stores in separated areas that say 18+. It's just not allowed to advertise them and put them on public shelves.

[lociefer]

havent you heared ? if you'r good at CS your probably can 360noscope first try with an AK in real life

[Christopher]

This is what happens when video games become more and more mainstream and a wider audience of people pay attention to them.

Phase 1: Oh, look, isn't that interesting. People play them for quarters when out and about and it's a random diversion of no importance.

Phase 2: You can now play games at home, but they cost an arm and a leg.

Phase 3: Video games are rotting the brains of our youth and they should only play educational games.

Phase 4: Video games create murderers.

Phase 5: Video games are sexist.

Phase 6: ???

[iTechHeads]

So?

[Elda]

Folks that want to go out,shoot & kill random folks are just psychotic...not at all wrapped to tight & videogames have nothing to do with that.

[GamePeace]

People are not born psychotic, but people can become psychotic. Everyone with a weak or labile personality could become a victim, that's why we should be careful how we threat other people in the real world and on the internet. Sometimes I've used a harsh tone with other people on the internet (though I didn't mean the things I wrote for real), but I'm trying to be more careful with how I threat other people in the real world and on the internet, because one can never know how people tick ...

[Elda]

No matter how they got psychotic but they are.I love playing violent games like Doom & COD all the time but I've never wanted to go out into the community & shoot folks it's something I just couldn't fathom,I wouldn't blame some folks murderous behavior on videogames. I treat folks on the internet or in person how I would want to be treated & that's with respect but if you start disrespecting me you'll feel my wrath verbally...lol.

[brando008]

lol what?

[BattleAxe]

The Germans don't have a clue.

[GamePeace]

Often the causes are more difficult than one might believe. Blaming videogames is far too simple Herr (german word for Mr. or sir) Thomas de Maizière, blame society for creating such individuals. I live in Germany and I'm well-informed about this case, because the german medias are talking for days about this single case currently. The boy commited this terrible crime, because he was a victim of bullism in his school, he got bullied for like 7 years before he went nuts, it's our society's fault for creating such beasts. It is know that such people occupy themselves with violent material before comitting acts of violence, be it videogames, other personalities of that kind (Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold or Breivik). Ali S. (the author of the Munich shooting) was inspired by the Columbine High School shooting and Breivik (he commited the killing spree on the same day as Breivik commited his killing spree). Coincidence? I don't think so. Blaming violent videogames is too simple, because they can only aliment the hate partially, they don't even have to, because there are people who become calm after playing violent videogames or hearing violent music like Metal. The real causes are people, people kill because of people and not because of videogames. Blame those youngsters who bullied him and false idols like Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold or Breivik, blame people who give you free access to violent content on the internet without warning you and blame the people behind our social system, bankers like the Rotschilds and Rockefellers or politicans like Thomas de Maizière (a collection of irresponsible people) for such disgraces, because they have created a system where only the wealthiest and the ones who adapt the most survive, where people like Ali S. and many others who don't come from the wealthiest families or are not the most adaptable ones remain outsiders who get excluded to the point where they lose their humanity and become monsters. There are those who can cope with the atrocties they suffer because of other people and those who simply don't ...

Blame yourself and your collegues Thomas de Maizière ... those liars.

I view Ali S., the responsible behind the Munich shooting as perpetrator and victim at the same time. He fell into the pitfall of hate created by others (those who bullied him) and himself, because he has allowed it. He could have changed or left the school and could have sought professional help or a therapy in order to cope or elimnate his negative emotions, but he chose the way of hate. Now he killed innocent people along himself, while the ones who bullied him still live.

[stalepie]

Check out this Muslim bullying the mourners:

https://twitter.com/ILNewsF...

[Lighter9]

"We must blame them and cause a fuss
before somebody thinks of blaming uuuuusssss"

[jc12]

Clearly, the minister is a bit of a buffoon. Video games don't cause people to murder other people. If that were the case, I would have killed 4 billion people by now. Garbage argument the dim witted consistently use as a crutch.

[Scatpants]

Impossible. A videogame lacks the brain power to orchestrate an attack let alone hands to hold a weapon.

[Tankbusta40]

He should blame the real culprit.... Angela Merkel

[JasonKCK]

Before video games it was movies and music that got the blame. People even blame YouTube. This kind of news should stay front page, it affects everyone.

[alfcrippinjr]

what a load of shit its down to Germany who open the flood gates to all male single Syrian refugees
that are more likely terrorists waiting.

they dont have to follow the laws and do what the hell they want too and get away with it

they using this as a excuse only nothing more saying video games are to blame for this.

no its not Germany its called you letting them into your country

get off your arse Germany and shut down your borders and dont let Syrian refugees in

[Raiden]

Hi all, firstly I have not read the article, but I want to make a point, people in government should never point the blame to games for the rise of violence, it's not the games fault, but people, people have a choice to do good or do bad and the innocent are the ones that suffer and pays the price, another point, we open our countries to help the refugees and all they are doing is what they set out to do, wage a clandestine war against innocent civilians. Last years new years, how many German woman were sexually abused by those we open our heart to help. Videogames are not to blame, politicians are

[CIA_BOSS]

I forgot that Hitler was a hardcore gamer.

[kingjames18]

Don't listen to these German Quacks. From Merkel on down her political cronies are going out of their way to let the Migrant Crisis continue and blame anything and anyone but who is responsible for the uprise in violence in their country. She is a disgrace to Germany and should be removed from office. As for videogames they are just a form of entertainment just like movies, books, music. To put them in the crosshairs and blame them for what happens in this world is to ignore reality and would only lead to the days of the past where book burnings and other forms of suppression was a common thing.
https://twitter.com/kingjam...

[extermin8or]

I love how soneone looked at the situation: gunman with known psychological issues goes on killing spree, had obsession with mass shootings, seemed to have issue with dual nationality status as an Iranian-german. Was apparently a Muslim and shouted "allahu akbar" at least once, used the dark net to buy the gun (and I imagine probably communicate with God know who), had been bullied at school (aren't most of us at some point though?) and seemed to target teenagers and young adults and played video games (all this info was in various nnc news articles -bits in brackets are my own comments). Now looking at all this they concluded- video games must be to blame. Not the darkweb that facilitated buying of the weapon. Not the bullying or the unhealthy obsession with mass shootings or the mental health problems or potentially fanatical religious views. Nope not one of these- video games. That's their conclusion. I mean I'm fairly sure my cat could come up with a more logical assessment of the facts than that.

[GamePeace]

Blame first and foremost bullism, one of the worst methods to sicken the soul of an individual. I've been a victim myself, I often got bullied and excluded at school, luckily I've been strong enough to ignore the bullies, but there are way more sensible/weak adolescents with unstable personalities who go nuts. It's not easy for victims, because they suffer psychologigcally, so that they have to leave or change school, which costs a lot of time, nerves and money if you visit institutions where you have to pay for your studies.

The problem is that many adolescents are way too insensitive towards other adolescents who don't fit their image of 'cool'. Those bullies always search quiet or weak individuals they can bully for their own enjoyment, which is quite perverse and sadistic if you ask me. What is the outcome of such behaviour? Suicides, killing sprees, broken minds etc.. If you're a victim of bullism, go on and seek professional help if you can't handle it alone.

I've always made my own thing without disturbing others when I went to school back in the day, it's not that difficult. I don't know why those youngsters can't mind their own business without making other people go crazy , it's really sickening and sad ...

[BenRC01]

How about the fact you let any old twat into your country.

[GamePeace]

I live in Germany and I'm kind of proud of the country I live in, but I have to agree with you even if it hurts, because it's the truth. The country I've used to adore has become the gate of the world, where everyone can enter. I welcome other nationalities, but german politicans like Angela Merkel or Thomas de Maizière overestimated themselves this time ... we've lost control, too many people came in and still come in, things are getting worse day by day. I avoid to visit certain places like central stations, airports or big cities (like Munich) ... the image of Germany changed and is still changing, many germans are leaving the country and people who immigrated before too (first and second-generation immigrants).

[kingjames18]

Stay proud of your country. As a citizen of Germany you should be proud of her. Just as long as you aren't so proud that you blind yourself to stupid politicians who are out to destroy your culture and way of life and what makes your country unique. :) But again I'm glad that you have the right mind and you are not blind. Keep it up :)

[Eiyuuou]

I blame it on "Wir schaffen das.".