Now that the carnage at Virginia Tech is past and the identities are known, I have another fear: that useful reactions to what happened will be ignored in favour of the irrational. My wager is that politicians will be scared to raise gun control as an issue, but that some bright light will call for the FBI/police to monitor creative writing assignments to screen for violent content, just as calls went out to restrict video games after the shootings at Columbine.
Interesting note from Wired: 8 hours after the VT shootings Reuters had raised the spectre of video games once again.
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Still in a betting mood, I’ve got $20 that says the Globe’s Andrew Ryan is right about the inevitable creation of a CSI channel. I think maybe it’ll start out as a Law & Order/CSI channel; twice as many episodes that way. And hey, maybe they could add on Cold Case and Without A Trace and Crossing Jordan and just call it the Vanilla Predictable Investigation Channel. Their tagline: don’t think too hard.
[tags]virginia tech, gun control, creative writing, video games, csi, law & order, cold case, without a trace, crossing jordan[/tags]
Skirl | Dan Dickinson 
That’s not a bet, that’s an inevitability. My $20 says the CSI/Law&Order channel beats the Big Three Networks in ratings.
that channel lineup already exists- its called the mystery channel- where you get bonus cheese like numb3rs, the unit, and simon and simon.
good times
Ummmmmmm… The Unit is NOT cheese thank you very much. It’s a great show. Perhaps a little too “raw raw my country is great” but the hot men running around shooting things makes up for that.