Yet another opportunity for self reflection with the violence in games debate missed

Opinion by Matt S.

For anyone following the news, it's been a pretty distressing couple of days. America experienced not one, but two mass shootings within a 24-hour time span, and these were of a scale large enough to make global news. Yes, America is still on track for more than one shooting per day for 2019, but the rest of the world is desensitised enough to the frequency of these that they only hit headlines once they're of a certain scale. It's incredibly distressing to think that even set against that bar of desensitisaion, two of these nightmare events would occur back-to-back.

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