What swine flu doesn't kill video games will.

You know how I generally stand at a blazing pulpit preaching against the video game nay-sayers who bemoan video games as a potential source of violence? Well, sometimes, video games do lead to violence. Sort of. I guess.

Two recent instances (ONE HAPPENED BACK IN DECEMBER, INCREDIBLY RECENT, I TELL YOU WHAT) of murder occurred in and around playing video games. While the nature of game (though game system XBox 360 was identified in the more recent of the two altercations) is unspecified, apparently people are shooting each other over video games.

Bear in mind, of course, that these two outbreaks occurred with older gentlemen who owned guns and these are not the Columbines of yore nor the "whoops, I left my pistol out and my kid took it to school and tried to play Grand Theft Auto on the jungle gym at lunchtime," "we"'ve been worried about. Grown men. Shooting each other over video games. Thanks, poverty-rich apartment block housing.