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    GIVING UP THE GUN

    Jan 14, 2020 5 minutes

    The morning of 15 March I woke up to the news that a 28-year-old Australian white supremacist had walked into two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and opened fire on those attending Friday prayer. Fifty people lost their lives. Another 50 were injured. I had been pretty excited about getting stuck into the newly released The Division 2 that morning.

    I’ll be honest, I couldn’t bring myself to begin the download.

    As the year ran out, real-world violence seemed to escalate. A mass shooting in Daytona, USA because a man was denied entry to a bar. A massacre in a Walmart in El Paso had racially motivated overtones; 22 people lost their lives. Closer to home we had the terrorist attack on London Bridge, in which two people died. Life outside of videogames is scary enough – do I really want to raise the body count on PS4?

    SHOT OF REALITY

    I’m hesitant, as knees still jerk

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