Super Columbine Massacre RPG upsetting to Columbine families

Imagine that. The video game, which was introduced online last year, has become rather popular. It is "ultimately up to you," players are told, how many people Harris and Klebold kill. The game includes crime scene images of the two killers and images of students running and crying, but there are no photographs of the victims.

The creator of the website, who prefers to be anonymous, says that he created the game to induce a "real dialogue on the subject of school shootings." He also says he was a bullied kid, echoing the pop psychology explanation for the Columbine killings (the killings took place, as at least one sane commentator wrote, not because Harris and Klebold were bullied, but because they were dangerous psychopaths).

The son of one of the Columbine victims said of the game: "It disgusts me. You trivialize the actions of two murderers and the lives of the innocent."

I visited the Super Columbine Massacre RPG discussion forum, in which there is a great deal of protest that the game exists, and there are also a few comments defending it. I imagine that most of the defenders are too busy playing the game to bother with the forum. There is at least one very disturbing post in which Harris and Klebold are praised; I did not stick around long enough to see if there were any others like that.