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Trigger Happy

On September 25, 1982, in Pennsylvania, George Emil Banks murdered 13 people, including his own children and a stranger walking past his house, using an AR-15 assault rifle. The most violent videogame in existence at the time was the classic Robotron: 2084, a 2D topdown twin-stick shooter in which you must fend off hordes of killer robots. Coincidence?

On September 6, 1949, in New Jersey, war veteran Howard Unruh strolled through his neighbourhood and murdered 13

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