CounterStrike

A young man has been shot in yet another senseless death attributed to handgun violence.  This time it appears that the shooting was over, of all things, a video game.  Strangely enough, this happened in the violence-free handgun-free utopia of Canada.

Christian Kwee was an average 17-year-old from the suburbs. He wasn’t brilliant at high school, but he was hoping to get into college. The Grade 12 student, however, had a talent for playing video games, and loved to hang out with friends perfecting his skills.

When Mr. Kwee died last Saturday, it was in an Internet café. Police believe the violence on the video screen may have tragically spilled into the room. Witnesses say he was shot to death because he was too good—murdered by someone he had just beaten at the popular game Counter-Strike .

“The hardest part to comprehend,” RCMP Corporal Pierre LeMaitre said, “is that the victim was just a young man out with friends, enjoying himself early in the evening—at 7:30 p.m.—and he was a victim of this kind of violence.”

I just find it astounding that this could happen. I mean, according to Michael Moore this type of senseless violence just doesn’t happen in Canada. They have free health care!  Canadians don’t lock their doors!  Canada requires all handguns to be registered!

How could this have happened?  It’s just not possible!