Thursday, July 26, 2001

By DARREN YOURK

The British Columbia man who led the campaign to stop the development of an on-line video game based on the Columbine High School shootings says he has received death threats on his antiviolence organization's Web site James Miller, a Web site designer and the founder of End Youth Violence, said Tuesday he has forwarded a threatening e-mail and two posted messages to the RCMP and the Delta, B.C., police.

"People are upset I'm trying to make companies more responsible for their games," Mr. Miller said. One profanity-laced message on the message board at http://www.youthandviolence.com, posted by someone using the alias Hitler, criticized Mr. Miller's attempt to end video-game violence, threatening to "rip your head off and eat your children." The Columbine game was going to allow players to recreate the scenarios of the 1999 school shooting in Littleton, Colo., in which two teenagers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before committing suicide. Mr. Miller helped to pressure the game's creator to cancel its release.

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