Mainstream Media Hypocrisy? Bully Blasted, But Buy an Airsoft Gun

With a new round of controversy brewing by today’s release of Bully: Scholarship Edition, we happened across a cautionary story about the game on the website of Norfolk radio station CD98.9.

The composition begins with “a warning to parents to investigate what their kids are playing…” before recounting much of the knowledge from today’s Globe and Mail coverage, which we’ve already cited in the preceding GP story.

What caught our

eye, however, was the ad directly below the Bully warning - a ten-inch wide banner pushing Airsoft weapons (see pic).

Now, GP has nothing against Airsoft guns. Don’t use ‘em myself, but as faraway as those who do use them appropriately, I don’t object. But I’m willing to bet the ranch that many more public have been hurt by an Airsoft gun than a video game.

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