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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chriton227" data-source="post: 3679330" data-attributes="member: 33263">The vast majority of gamers I know are great people, but there have been a few individual I've met locally that I had bad gut feelings about almost immediately.  One of those people was later convicted on possession/distribution of child pornography.  Others, I later learned more about them and the things I learned were things that I decided were adequate reasons for me to not want them around my children.  I have also know quite a few gamers who were not particularly stable, and with some of them I have concerns for their safety (and the safety of those around them) if they don't continue the treatments they have been prescribed.  In those cases, my willingness to be around the individuals depends on their current behavior, and I would rather not chance my children's safety based on the assumption that the individual is taking their prescribed medication. Even back in high school, I knew someone who had difficulty separating fantasy from reality, and he was drawn to RPGs like a moth to a flame. This wasn't the fault of the games, rather it was that the games happened to resonate with his particular mental state  more than something like tennis or painting did.  As a result of all of this, I feel that I need to be careful upon meeting people to get to know them before inviting them into my home or introducing them to my children.  On top of that, the area of the state I live in is economically depressed, and due to my career I have a fair amount of computer equipment and such in the house, and I would rather not go around showing it off to anyone I happen to meet.It might also have something to do with the fact that I live only a few minutes away from the site of the worst school shooting in US history, which also happens to have been where an escaped prisoner alledgely killed (the trial isn't over yet) a hospital security guard and a local police officer less than a year before, and in both cases my wife and children were less than a block from the college campus when the manhunts were taking place.</blockquote>

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