Breaking: IDIOT Thompson Blames Va Shooting on Games

[Nightmarus]

Games,everything affect us..thats true or we wouldnt play them...BUT ALSO, I think we can still see the difference between reality and virtuality. I really love DBZ since I was a kid, but I wouldn't dare to jump from a building just to try flying like goku, I knew the consequences,If I jump I would die.

Thompson please respect the ones who died....
Thompson is also psycho, he is blaming everything because of games. Shouldn't he also blame books,movies?

[Brouhaha]

There are too many factors involved to simply blame it all on games, but I WILL say that games may have had an impact big enough on this horrible act to not rule it out in the equation. My belief would be a combination of a psychological issue of some kind(main), earlier school-shootings that have inspired and last but not least - videogames. EVERYTHING we do in life affects us in one way or the other.

If you believe violent video games have absolutely no impact on you at all, you're ludicrous and actually irresponsible by denying it. If games didn't affect you, you wouldn't play them at all. You play them BECAUSE they affect you.

Smartest post on the subject yet. Reflects my thoughts.

[Cloud_35]

This isn't new, they blamed DOOM for the Columbine masacre, the guys where a lot in that stuff. But anyway, it's the GAME and the time you play it, not all the games and all the situatons (try to blame Mario for the behaviour of an insane Korean killer).

EDIT - For gronne's post, i agree. There are some games that I'm honestly afraid to play for what I've seen they do to other people. I had a friend whicha also was a lot in doom, he sometimes freaked me out a little (tried to use EVERYTHING as a gun, made weird sounds out of nothing....). I only got nausea after I play doom, and I stay with that .

[darkspectorXP]

I had seen a CSI Miami episode that tried to tie video games to a crime, it had to do with a GTA style PC game, when a FBI PC technician character played through the game, he saw some pretty disturbing stuff, including bank robberies where the player takes part in the bank robbery. Now, Dr. Phil McGraw is taking Jack Thompson's part. Read here:
http://pspupdates.qj.net/Of-Virginia...g/49/aid/89666
I have been playing Doom since Middle School, I own the complete Doom Trilogy CD-ROM complation and the SNES cart of Doom 1 and I have Tourette's Snrome and OCD and I do things like a normal person.
Ben

[Thanatos 2.0]

It really saddens me that there are people like this who would take advantage of the unjust deaths of 33 People and try to use it to take down something he doesn't like.

but it just shows another problem in our overgrowing list of world problems.

[PLZKLLME0080]

I'm gonna be this guy for Holloween.

[Dull Blade]

What a jerk, honestly. Why would you blame this on video games. For all i know (as of yesterday) he could of been doing in the name of "Allah" (No offense to any asian partys reading, I realize that only a small group of people Muslim religion are extreamist). I sure this guys final thoughts b4 theÂ*shooting were "Yes, I can finally play GTA for real" (says in sarcastic voice). The idiosy that spews out of the man in baffling.

[ish420ism]

I think JT makes a valid argument. These mass shootings were not happening 15 years ago. In fact, the U.S. population wouldn't stand for suicidal mass killers 15 years ago.

These killer simulators were first introduced to the millitary sector and after, formated for a commercial market.

Now look who is defending these simulators..NBC, the mass media, big financial corperations. Step back and look at the bigger picture.

Also, look at how a lot of these people defend their culture, but when it comes time to defend the stability of the nation, People are nowhere to be found.
just an IDEA

[Anger]

theres a few reasons why this is happening more often now - a small part and i do mean small is the games, but as you say, step back and take a look at the bigger picture.
firstly the teens are getting away with a $#@! load more than they used to - this creates boredom which leads to insanity. please try and tell me these mass killers/suciders/whatever are not clinically or pathologically insane.
then of course another small part is the ability to get guns in almost any state - even getting them from one state and going to another. now i do agree that the big corps are defending the games but the reason is because they make money from them (directly or indirectly, advertising, news, entertainment etc.). the games makers are also not being held accountable for the products they are releasing but more than that the parents are letting there kids buy these games without a second thought - young minds are impresionable. the fault is mostly with the parents and blaming games as a whole is ridiculous.
my parents when i was growing up never really let me see anything above my age rating, now i am more than old enough to decide for myself what i can and cant play. the same should be true of kids these days, but it simply isnt. these kids that go on a massacre spree have shown signs of mental illness that was passed over because people either dont want to see it or dont know what it is or even dont care that its happening - like being behind blinkers. the fault lies squarely at the feet of parents and teachers alike, with a small proviso of blame for the goverment allowing the sales of mature games to minors and to games makers not having to be carefull what they make and/or who they sell it to.

[Cloudhunter]

These killer simulators were first introduced to the millitary sector and after, formated for a commercial market.

Actually, games like DOOM where there first.

Besides, who says it'd be a video game thing? Movie's are way more violent than video games - and I don't see him campaigning against them.

He's just prejudiced against games.

Cloudy