Deputy Chairman of the Committee State Duma on information policy Andrey Svintsov criticized the senator’s statements Alexandra Bashkina, who linked shooting in Kazan with “violent computer games”. According to the deputy, the attacker was insane.
On May 11, at Kazan school # 175, the shooter killed seven students and two teachers. More than two dozen more victims were hospitalized with wounds and injuries.
Law enforcers were able to detain 19-year-old Ilnaza Galyavieva… The young man graduated from the above school four years ago and studied to be a programmer. He was described as a “quiet and non-conflicting” person.
Before the attack, the shooter started a Telegram channel and published photos in which he posed in a balaclava, and also talked about the plan to kill the “bio-waste”. Galyaviev legally acquired the gun, although the Investigative Committee claims that the defendant was diagnosed with a brain disease.
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Despite this, Bashkin began to blame the “cruel games” for the tragedy. He also demanded to extend to them the concepts of “desirable and undesirable content”, as well as to tighten control on the Internet.
“In these games, scraps of meat fly, blood splashes fly, continuous violence – for an unformed adolescent psyche, this can be extremely dangerous,” RIA Novosti quoted the parliamentarian as saying.
But Svintsov called such initiatives excessive. He noted that video games can unload the psyche of a child loaded with lessons.
But there are questions for doctors who must find mental abnormalities in patients. It is known that in recent months Galyaviev allegedly behaved inappropriately, and also complained to doctors about headaches.
“We saw a video of the interrogation, where the guy is clearly insane. I doubt that his hobbies for games led to this. Most likely, this is caused by uncomfortable relationships in the family, not very adequate relations at school,” the parliamentarian said in an interview with the Moscow Says newspaper.
However, Svintsov also demonstrated ignorance of national legislation. He suggested introducing age restrictions for games in which “the villain shoots civilians, police officers, and so on.” At the same time, the rating system in Russia has long been functioning within the framework of the law on the protection of children from harmful information.
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