In an online video game, players follow shooter Adam Lanza’s footsteps
the day of the Sandy Hook Elementary school mass shooting. Called “The
Slaying of Sandy Hook Elementary School,” the widely condemned simulation takes players through the shootings of 26 children and adults before it shows their “score”:
Game creator Ryan Jake Lambourn claims it has a “gun safety” message,
but activists against gun violence are baffled and disgusted by the
game. The family of Victoria Soto, a murdered Newtown teacher, took
their outrage to Twitter, telling
Lambourn, “Please tell us how playing a game that recreates how Vicki
died would be beneficial?” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told the Hartford
Courant he hopes the “very disturbed person who could think of something
like this sees the cruelty of what he’s done and stops it.”
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