Is the Columbine game any worse than the other 'killer' games or is it just more offensive because we know it's based on reality? I can't imagine any of these games being a positive influence on anyone's life.

There are way too many of these types of games out there. Whatever happened to fun games, where the only one that died was the pacman, or the frog, or even little Mario?

This is truly a horrible tragedy. It's such a shame that someone as sick as Gill that wants to die himself has to take innocent victims with him.

Dear Sarah:

I am somewhat astonished that you seem to be oblivious to the fact that, in this context, the first meaning to come to mind for some of your readers for the acronym "RPG" might be "Rocket Propelled Grenade."

You know, those things that they use in Chechnya and Bagdahd and quite a few other places to kill innocent civilians, and even college students, too?

Next time, please, just use "video game" in your headline.

I cannot believe someone made a video game about Columbine. There are many better ways than that to "deepen and redefine the understanding of Columbine."

Robot, are you serious? would the tag line even make sense if she was using the acronym for rocket propelled grenade? no. don't post for the sake of posting, tard. trust me, even the other Carlos Mencias that post on the slog don't think you sound smart or informed with this one.

These games are just preoccupations, people will gravitate toward what they are already interested in. People who lean toward destruction will find pixelated games like the SCMRPG interesting. I don't find it fun, but that has nothing to do with its gory storyline. I simply do not enjoy pixelated games that remind me of DOS games from way back in the day. Now, if I were into murder and destruction I might find ANY game of that nature interesting.

I think it's funny the way we are all running around trying to "figure out" why these things happen. I mean, we already know and have known for years. The thing is, though, the real reasons are being smashed to pieces by people who try to make it more complicated than it really is.

High school loneliness and harassment has far-reaching effects that don't just disappear magically when we are handed a diploma. Loneliness, despair, hopelessness, apathy... all of those emotions are not confined to the high school environment. They may or may not originate there, but they sure do make it easier to not give a damn about anyone else.

I wonder when more will see... how many more kids will have to die before this society wakes up to the fact that this pain is real and it takes on more forms than we want to admit? How many more shootings will we have to go through?

Dawson's not a Community College, it's a Cégep, which is sorta like super high school in Québec; everybody takes grades 11-13 there. Think like 'college' in England, except mandatory. Actually it might be mandatory in England too, I'm not sure.