Massachusetts has narrowly averted a major tragedy by taking the brave action of removing violent video games from bathrooms. Who knows what would have happened if those terrible games were left there another minute.
Just outside the rest rooms was a young man pointing a life-sized machine gun at one of the plaza’s video game machines, firing rapidly and with a loud rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat sound. The image of the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School immediately came to mind, and we were struck by the possibility that someone from the Newtown community, driving east for the Christmas holiday, might stumble across this scene.