Jackass Thompson is going to have a field day with this one...

Originally Posted by Gechmir

Yeah evidently Heath Ledger croaking from suicide deserves more screen time than college kids getting gunned down ;O Nice job, media~

Seriously, this was a top headline on Drudge for, like, a DAY (more like an afternoon). When the Virginia Tech shitstorm hit, that was on the top for over a week.

That's because a celebrity didn't kill himself that week.

It's unfortunate that something like this has happened, however I certainly wouldn't put video games any where as the cause of this happening. There are tens of millions of video games, many violent, that are sold and these shootings are merely a very small percentage of what people have done.

The problem is more than likely far more complicated than we care to admit. It's already been reported from this news story that he was off his medication, so I imagine that that played a factor. Besides he was obviously old enough to play any video game, however his medical condition, whatever it maybe, could have skewed his perception of the world. Again, this does not mean that video games caused it. If anything, this incident would have happened without video games happening.

Shootings, killings, at schools and everywhere else have always occurred, it's with the prevalence of the media that we hear about it more often. And we have killed for far less reasoning than whatever transpired at the college.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Encephalon

That's some fucked up shit and it's starting to become a little too common these days.

In a CNN article, there was a note at the end saying it was the 5th US school shooting in 1 week. ONE week. The other 4 were smaller ones where I think 1 or 2 people were killed and in one of them no one was killed, but a student was rendered permanently brain damaged. But yeah I'd say it's way too common these days. Do you think these are all imitators or what? The lot of them are obviously mentally unstable, but I just don't understand how you can just shoot up random people.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Jack Thompson needs to grow up and realize that if video games really do cause school shootings and violence, then there would be millions of incidents like this everyday, but it does not, which means the people who have walked into school with a gun must have snapped or has issues.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

ISSUES CAUSED BY VIDEO GAMES.

It's true. I'm sure it's in the bible somewhere. Halo Deathmatches featuring Jesus with a plasma rifle blowing niggas away like it's Compton up in this bitch!

I was speaking idiomatically.

There was a time when video games didn't exist, right?

Most amazing jew boots

^^ Meaning a time without Jack Thompson? *paradise*

(Although, I thought he was immortal. You know, like those undead monsters from Silent Hill which you kill with weapons and violence and such.)

FELIPE NO