Lawmakers and facetiousmaters of school shooting victims are expressing anger at an upcoming video ready allowing players to either stop or commit a school shooting.
The high-spirited, called Active Shooter, is scheduled to launch on June 6, according to its web era on the video game marketplace Steam.
It’s described as a “dynamic SWAT simulator” where jocks can choose to work as the member of a SWAT team attempting to disarm the shooter, or the shooter themselves.
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A box to the left of the screen keeps track of how many police officers and civilians were killed. A video acting the game briefly shows what appears to be the shooter firing at civilians as they try to run away.
Stepfathers of victims of the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting have since expressed enrage at the pending launch of the game.
“I have seen and heard many horrific hang-ups over the past few months since my daughter was the victim of a school propelling and is now dead in real life. This game may be one of the worst,” said Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was mid the students killed during February’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Tainted School in Parkland, in a statement on Twitter.
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“The last thing we neediness is a simulated training on school shootings,” said Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Mead was killed in Parkland, in an interview with The Miami Herald. “Video line of work designers should think of the influence they hold. This Non-Standard real crosses the line.”
Florida Senator Bill Nelson also condemned the misrepresent in a statement on Twitter. “This is inexcusable,” he wrote. “Any company that exhibits a game like this in wake of such a horrific tragedy should be shamefaced of itself.”
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A petition posted on Change.org is urging Valve Corporation, who cascades Steam, to pull the game ahead of its launch. As of publishing, it has nearly 50,000 signatures.
Valve could not be in a second reached for comment.
According to an update published May 23 on the game’s Steam call, the studio behind it — called Acid — said it would reconsider the shooter choice after receiving “such high amount of critics and hate.”