Sandy Hook game arouses anger

Designer re-creates school shooting rampage online

An man in Australia has triggered a tidal wave of fury with his Sandy Hook video game — featuring players shooting their mothers, collecting ammo and then culminating in a school shooting rampage.

The unrepentant gamer claims “liberals” are furious because of the disrespect shown the 20 young students and six educators who were murdered last December in a massacre that stunned the world.

The creator — believed to be named Ryan Jake Lambourn — adds that conservatives are angry because the game, The Slaying of Sandy Hook Elementary, has a gun control message.

“Here we are nearly a year after the Sandy Hook shootings in which 26 people were killed and absolutely nothing positive has come out of it,” he wrote in the credits.

In the game, players re-enact the events of Dec. 14, 2012, in Newtown, Conn., inflicted by Adam Lanza.

Already one gaming site has taken the game down.

Family members of heroic teacher Victoria Soto, who died protecting her students, told the New York Daily News they’ve tried to reach out to the game’s creator.

Soto’s family tweeted the gamer and said: “Please tell us how playing a game that recreates how Vicki died would be beneficial? Please tell us.”

He replied, “Sure, but you’d learn more by ‘playing it.’ ”

Furious, the devastated family released a statement: “The constant barrage of negative backlash we face as a family is unimaginable. We constantly have to battle people who still, to this day, think Sandy Hook is a hoax. For those people, I can only say I hope you never have to go through what we do as a family.”

But Lambourn said he wouldn’t be deterred and tweeted: “The liberals don’t like me because I’ve disrespected the dead. The conservatives don’t like me because of the gun-control message. The conspiracy theorists don’t like me because it risks informing people of what happened. And the trolls don’t like me because it wasn’t edgy enough.”