Note: I submitted this to the San Diego Union Tribune under my real name. Neither is a copy of the other.
Preface:
I
have been seeing a lot of responses to the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting of
late and a number of them have me worried. As a young person who could be called a “geek” in most
common parlance, I am uneasy that one of my own hobbies, video gaming as well
as the culture surrounding it, has come under siege by those who believe that
they represent an easy target in dire times. So I became resolved to write this piece as an attempt to
clarify that, which is being manipulated to the base ends of these aggressors.
