Can't really say anything that hasn't been said before, but likewise my thoughts and prayers go out to all the families and friends of the victims. I never thought things would ever be worse than Columbine.

And thank you, Mr. Thompson, for using the murders of over 30 people to push along your anti-videogame agenda.:rolleyes:

In the unlikely event that I am EVER am within reaching distance of Thompson after this shit, he's gonna need a new set of teeth. Opportunistic pig. It's not even about video games, it's about the exploitation of all of those that have suffered from this tragedy.

Somehow I would not be stunned if this kid played Counter-Strike in his spare time.

Here you go then. I was actually hoping this would turn out to be hearsay, but no such luck. There are so many things that could be scoffed at here, but I think the idiocy of the video speaks for itself. It's pretty sad when a Fox News anchor sounds like the voice of reason a couple times.

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Read in wikipedia that the guy was a South Korean student named Cho Seung-hui. He also left a note criticizing "rich kids", "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans". Link to note.

Disturbing shit.

Wow. The biggest school shooting ever in the US... Another Columbine, except in a college setting. I'm in shock.

What I don't understand is how there was a shooting 2 hours earlier. And the school wasn't on lock down or anything. People attended class as if nothing had happened... Shouldn't there have been more security and police officers roaming the campus trying to catch the shooter 2 hours earlier?

My prayers go to those who were killed in this massacre...

The police believes that the shooter is a Korean immigrant, majoring in English. I wonder how the shooter being a minority will play out. I mean after Columbine, many schools started to crack down on bullies and video games. But now a similar incident has been done by a minority. Will this bring about a rally against racism?

Fuck, that guy really hated the world. I wonder if any of his creative writing papers will be released to the press.

Racism won't be a consideration. The victims were as diverse as the college. Young, old, American, Asian, black, etc.

Odd. There was a recent shooting in Appalachia that was committed by a Nigerian man. I forget where it was but the idea of foreign nationals committing school shootings becoming a trend is odd, especially in that kind of a locality.

Yes, I'm jumping the gun with my previous post. I really want to know what set this guy off. From what I've read so far, he seemed to be a loner. His neighbor described him as being quiet and kept to himself. He had a demented sense of thought, writing plays that were so horrendous that he was assigned to therapy. Maybe he was just depressed? Or did he just have a sick, demented mind?

I want to hear what his family has to say. They must be devastated.

If it is anything other than "we are completely fucking incompetent" then I don't give a crap what they have to say.

Think Thompson can tie Starcraft to a school shooting?

World of Warcraft has guns in it...

It's a shame that people like Thompson can't be in a gun-toting psycho's firing line rather than innocent students.

As they said earlier on in the news cycle, it was thought this was just a domestic dispute and there was no cause to lock down an entire campus because of something that happened in one of the dorms.

I mean, if you don't find a gun or the shooter from the dorms and the campus is on lockdown, how long do you keep everyone stuck where they are? It'll take a pretty darned long time to search room by room to try and find someone, and even after that there's no guarantee the person would even still be on campus.

It appears that Dr. Phil has joined in on the Jack Thompson bandwagon.

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Wait a minute. Phil is talking about people mimicking entertainment? Didn't he saw off his foot in a Wayans movie?

I can't believe you would say this... his parents have nothing to do with what he does. They don't have a responsibility to apologize or say anything. They are already going to have it hard enough as it is. Talking to the media is the absolute worst thing they could do.

Oh yeah. Because parenting has nothing to do with how a child turns out. At all.

Clue-ins to parenting quality should've been flagged when he wrote a play in 10 pages about a pedophilic father who murders his 13 year-old son. Any Southern Playwright could've come up with that one.

A parent can't be held responsible for all their child's issues. He's his own man, made his choices and that's that.

As much as I want to agree with you there, if you don't think his upbringing had anything to do with how this whole thing turned out you're as naive as the next Jack Thompson knob-shiner.

I just think "we are completely fucking incompetent" is a stretch. Unless they supplied the weapon and told him to massacre a bunch of people, it's not all their fault.

I'd go as high as 50/50 though.

I still can't figure out why there's a higher rate of shooting incidents happening on developed countries as compared to under-developed countries like the Philippines. I guess it's easier to purchase guns there, or something. And we all know that guns + angsty asians don't mix that well.