School shooting plot foiled by online gamer

The details are a little fuzzy right now, but there is some buzz on the web about a Canadian gamer who reported a gamer from San Antonio because he was sharing his plans to shoot up his school and kill several classmates, which he mentioned by name.  This all happened while the two were playing an "unspecified team-based game online" on x-box live.

Canadian authorities worked together with Microsoft to track down the gamer from San Antonio ( that's in Texas), and he has been arrested.

That's all the info that has been released for now, but I will definitely try to follow up on this story.  As always, I'm fascinated to see some event in the virtual world have quantifiable effects on meat world. In this case, the effect can be measure in human lives.

Although this bit of news should be regarded as positive, I can't help but feel a little sick to my stomach when I think about kids that are so depressed and so damaged inside that they have no qualms about taking a human life.

These gamers were probably playing Call of Duty, or some other first person shooter, and while I would never blame a game for some for turning people into desensitized murderers, I would not say they are blameless either...but I'm going to save that for another post.


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