No video games found in VT shooter's dorm

[wraggster]

via joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/19/no-video-games-found-in-vt-shooters-dorm/)

Video games were one of the first things blamed for the recent shootings at Virginia Tech. Dr. Phil and a certain Floridiot lawyer were two of the loudest voices, while an article in the online version of the Washing Post briefly mentioned Cho was a Counter-Strike player in high school. Not a big deal in our eyes, but to the general public if Cho even looked at a video game, it's case-closed.

After police searched Cho's dorm room, however, it seems he didn't own any video games at all. No murder simulators or gun training programs, not even a copy of Tetris. If video games didn't teach him these skills, where did they come from?! Oh noes!

We've posted our feelings about violent video games. Hopefully this lack of evidence will silence the anti-gaming pundits for a while.

[Cloud_35]

The guy was a psycho, videogames don't make psychos (well, at least not in all cases), the media gotta learn that.

[emuking]

thats true he was already crazy to begin with, and not having video games even proves it further, people have to accept that there are psychopaths in the world

[Veskgar]

Being from the Unites States myself, there is obviously a lot of news and analytical coverage about this. This guy obviously had some mental issues but it seems that a lot of his anger was brought on by bullying. It may have started in high school and gotten progressively worse, who knows.

The same goes for the columbine shooting. Those two kids were severely bullied.

People like Jack Thompson need to start attacking the schools and teachers for not taking a stronger stance against bullying.

Its obvious in a lot of schools that teachers and other administration staff turn their head to a lot of bullying because it is usually the more "popular" or "affluent" kids doing the bullying.

In a lot of schools there is now a zero tolerance rule regarding fighting or physical confrontation which means kids get both bullied and arrested for defending themselves.

Its very simple but less politically attractive:

Stop the bullies and bullying and prevent these troubled youths from feeling like they have no other means but to act out in this violent way.

I'm in no way supporting or sympathizing with the shooters actions, but there were warning signs.

This sort of thing has NOTHING to do with Video Games.

[Thanatos 2.0]

It is annoying how generally

People blame the unknown for things that have nothing to do with it, They dont know about video games except that there are some violent ones out there Therefore they classify everyone who plays video games as psycho type people. It's just sad.

[kcajblue]

this is why jack thompson fails.

anyway.
the guy was already psycho. and he was on medication that affected his thoughts.

[Hateshinai]

Video games are a worldwide phenomenon and yet these things seem to happen almost exclusively in the US. But obviously this has absolutely nothing to do with the lax gun laws. Nothing. At. All. Really. (Shut up before we bomb you!) It is a constitutional right for a mentally disturbed person to walk into a shop and buy a gun. Yay America!

[Hateshinai]

this is why jack thompson fails.

anyway.
the guy was already psycho. and he was on medication that affected his thoughts.

The medication was there to CONTROL his behaviour. It did not affect his thoughts and make him murder people. It was supposed to stop him from doing such a thing.

What really peed me off was the freaking Scientologists grabbing this tragedy as an opportunity to recruit people into their psychiatry-hating-alien-loving-totally-bonkers cult.

[HardHat]

Well, obviously the problem was that he wasn't playing enough videogames to escape his troubled reality. But there will always be people who are ready to kill themselves. Better to do it virtually, and kill only pixels in the process.

[kcajblue]

The medication was there to CONTROL his behaviour. It did not affect his thoughts and make him murder people. It was supposed to stop him from doing such a thing.i know that. he was taking anti depressants. but they can alter your thoughts.
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=60335

and dont double post. use the edit button.

[Basil Zero]

Being from the Unites States myself, there is obviously a lot of news and analytical coverage about this. This guy obviously had some mental issues but it seems that a lot of his anger was brought on by bullying. It may have started in high school and gotten progressively worse, who knows.

The same goes for the columbine shooting. Those two kids were severely bullied.

People like Jack Thompson need to start attacking the schools and teachers for not taking a stronger stance against bullying.

Its obvious in a lot of schools that teachers and other administration staff turn their head to a lot of bullying because it is usually the more "popular" or "affluent" kids doing the bullying.

In a lot of schools there is now a zero tolerance rule regarding fighting or physical confrontation which means kids get both bullied and arrested for defending themselves.

Its very simple but less politically attractive:

Stop the bullies and bullying and prevent these troubled youths from feeling like they have no other means but to act out in this violent way.

I'm in no way supporting or sympathizing with the shooters actions, but there were warning signs.

This sort of thing has NOTHING to do with Video Games.

I agree with you dood

its messed up that the government and media think this.

[Cloudhunter]

Take THAT Jack Thompson!

Cloudy

[jmendes]

it´s such a dumbass idea to blame video-games for violence it makes me laugh. Typical of those who dont really play anything.

[shadowprophet]

All this jack thompson banter has really got me thinking, For him to be so illustriously anal toward the electronic arts, His first Video game must have sucked so hard it blew.
he must have been an Et man in his college days :confused:

[ICE]

on a side note there were also no elephants found in his dorm either. so scratch elephants off of your list of possible causes for this tragedy.

[quzar]

Videogames DO cause this kind of thing. The key though itsn't to stop videogames. For ages there have been novels, poetry and music that has inspired both violence and suicide, but we don't stop them, we teach people to learn to deal with it. If a parent doesn't want a kid playing a game, they shouldn't tell stores not to sell it, they should tell their kid not to play it.

[devdj]

well ya never know what ya get with a korean from the south or north both are bad anyway a weapon doesn't make the man.

[delitax505]

well ya never know what ya get with a korean from the south or north both are bad anyway a weapon doesn't make the man.

Please don't turn this into a racial thing...

[XDelusion]

And he was comparing himself with Jesus, and yet killed people. Video Games and Movies don't even market Jesus, only the Politicians and Main Stream news talk Jesus, then turn around and bomb some brown country while encouraging us to shop and be happy.

He had to have been influenced by the news and polititicians before video games and movies.

[gutbub]

lol, videogames made him do it!
o wait, he didnt even own any, well in that case... drugs are bad
lol
y must they try to take videogames away from me?
and 1 more thing, videogames keep me off the streets, they keep me occupied
maybe the vt guy killed bc he didnt have a nice long game to play, did they ever think that?