Classy Jack thompson strikes again.

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Shortly after todays shooting at Virginia Tech, he appeared on Fox News as a "specialist in school shootings" he blamed videogames for helping the shooter "rehearse" shooting up VTechs campus.


Classy :applause:
 
See if it was like a week or some time after an investigation his point could be reasonable, but now he is just acting like a fucking dumbass. I mean my hearts go out to the victims and I feel sorry for everyone, but you have to laugh at how fucking stupid Jack Thompson is, not even a day in and videogames are the blame, now unless Jack has some type of psychic powers that we don't know about, he is a fucking dumbass, who just wants attention and money.
 
Hmm, I'm tempted to make the completely classless "Too bad Jack Thompson didn't happen to be on the Virginia Tech campus today" comment, but I won't...

;)
 
[quote name='Orbiting234']Too bad Jack Thompson didn't happen to be on the Virginia Tech campus today. :D[/QUOTE]


OH NO HE DI'NT!
 
Thompson blamed videogames? What an idiot. After all it's CLEARLY George Bush's fault.

A failing economy, skyrocketing unemployment and outsourcing, and an increased fear of terrorism from our senseless war in Iraq would make any rational person go crazy and want to start shooting. This blame is laid right at the feet of the Republican administration who's been in control for the last 6 years.
 
[quote name='bmulligan']Thompson blamed videogames? What an idiot. After all it's CLEARLY George Bush's fault.

A failing economy, skyrocketing unemployment and outsourcing, and an increased fear of terrorism from our senseless war in Iraq would make any rational person go crazy and want to start shooting. This blame is laid right at the feet of the Republican administration who's been in control for the last 6 years.[/QUOTE]

Nope, wrong again, it was global warming's climate change's fault.
 
Figures... Bubba the Love Sponge on Howard 101 (Sirius) said that Jack Thompson was going to blame the whole thing on video games, Xbox, and EA Sports at around 4 p.m. central. That's sad when somebody is such a douche to the gaming industry that even somebody on a Howard Stern channel is aware of him and makes fun of the guy.
 
I knew someone would blame music and/or video games. Idiots. The main people to blame are the media who cover this like its the freakin super bowl. Anything for ratings though...
 
I know you're trying to be funny... but its just so true.

[quote name='bmulligan']Thompson blamed videogames? What an idiot. After all it's CLEARLY George Bush's fault.

A failing economy, skyrocketing unemployment and outsourcing, and an increased fear of terrorism from our senseless war in Iraq would make any rational person go crazy and want to start shooting. This blame is laid right at the feet of the Republican administration who's been in control for the last 6 years.[/quote]
 
I knew this would happen. They aren't releasing any info about the shooter, or even if they know who he is. Man, fuck Jack Thompson...someone needs to frag his ass...
 
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I called it!
 
At least Fox News Exists now to funnel all of this reactionist blaming, hyper-republican crap into one shithole network that anyone with half a brain knows has no legitimacy whatsoever.
 
[quote name='jer7583']At least Fox News Exists now to funnel all of this reactionist blaming, hyper-republican crap into one shithole network that anyone with half a brain knows has no legitimacy whatsoever.[/quote]

Wow, well said :)

I'm rather disgusted that Thompson would be so quick to exploit this tragedy for his own insane agenda. I mean, I saw it coming, but goddamn. Have some fucking respect for the people involved, they don't even know the gunman's name, or at the very least haven't released it to the public.

What a douchebag.
 
[quote name='bmulligan']Thompson blamed videogames? What an idiot. After all it's CLEARLY George Bush's fault.

A failing economy, skyrocketing unemployment and outsourcing, and an increased fear of terrorism from our senseless war in Iraq would make any rational person go crazy and want to start shooting. This blame is laid right at the feet of the Republican administration who's been in control for the last 6 years.[/quote]

The irony is that the opposite is true - this will be used by Bush to justify the "war on terror" and the need to insert more "security" in every aspect of our lives.
 
This makes perfect sense. Surely any one of us could have done the same thing after playing so many hours of GTA: Blacksburg. :roll:
 
[quote name='javeryh']This makes perfect sense. Surely any one of us could have done the same thing after playing so many hours of GTA: Blacksburg. :roll:[/QUOTE]

it does make sense, like after I finished playing Geometry Wars, I went on a destructive shape rampage breaking any squares to rhombuses in sight, it was horrific.
 
Boys need to be tough, macho, not show any pain, and definitely not confide in anyone about their troubles or frustrations, especially friends or parents.

Gotta be tough and solo.

It's the video games fault.
 
[quote name='javeryh']This makes perfect sense. Surely any one of us could have done the same thing after playing so many hours of GTA: Blacksburg. :roll:[/quote]
Seriously, if video games were really the "cause", wouldn't we be having these mass shootings almost weekly?

As if tragedies never happened before videogames... :roll:

No one wants to look at the deterioration of parenting yet, huh?
 
What I've learned about guns from video games:

Guns don't have recoil.

I can hold both arms straight out, elbows locked, and fire damn near any weapon.

I can store thousands of bullets and dozens of weapons on my person.

I can easily reload any firearm by pressing "A."

Ammunition is randomly strewn about. Everywhere. Like cigarette butts.

I can never accidentally shoot myself.

Safety? Gun locks? Gun cabinets? Huh?

Guns can be bought from stores the way "Chicklets" are. Walk out in fifteen seconds armed to the teeth.

You must kill about 14 people before you really get the attention of the police.

When the police do get you, you spend a night in jail and lose your weapons, no matter how many murders you committed.

For infinite lives, press up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start.

Thanks, video games! Now I'm a fully trained assassin! :roll:
 
[quote name='mykevermin']What I've learned about guns from video games:

Guns don't have recoil.

I can hold both arms straight out, elbows locked, and fire damn near any weapon.

I can store thousands of bullets and dozens of weapons on my person.

I can easily reload any firearm by pressing "A."

Ammunition is randomly strewn about. Everywhere. Like cigarette butts.

I can never accidentally shoot myself.

Safety? Gun locks? Gun cabinets? Huh?

Guns can be bought from stores the way "Chicklets" are. Walk out in fifteen seconds armed to the teeth.

You must kill about 14 people before you really get the attention of the police.

When the police do get you, you spend a night in jail and lose your weapons, no matter how many murders you committed.

For infinite lives, press up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start.

Thanks, video games! Now I'm a fully trained assassin! :roll:[/QUOTE]

And don't forget the Hot Coffee!
 
Theres a quote from the movie 'Scream' that I think hits the nail on the head. Just sub the word 'movies' with 'videogames'.


"Videogames dont make people into Serial Killers. They make Serial Killers more creative."
 
Jack did this for attention and he's getting it so he is a happy man. Sure he is a dumbass but he sure is getting his 15 mins.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Ammunition is randomly strewn about. Everywhere. Like cigarette butts.[/quote]

LoL - I was playing RE4 last night, I shot a crow and got two shotgun shells from it - wtf?
 
Reality's Fringe;2842835 said:
Jack thomson, an attorney and expert in school shootings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weG7A4lTGtg
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That is really really scary. He is out of his freaking mind. I noticed he mentioned all of the more recent school shootings but failed to bring up the one in Texas that had been the biggest in US history before Monday - you know, the one that happened in 1966 - prior to video games. The Beatles did release "Revolver" that year though so I'm sure that had something to do with it...
 
Sure, Fox News went with the populist blowhard ("Hyper-Republican?" Look, Republican is not defined as "Stuff you disagree with.") Jack Thompson, but MSNBC and ABC are already using this tragedy to pimp their gun control agenda.

Ah, journalists. They really want to unearth lawyers as the scummiest of professions.
 
It's scary that Doctor Phil is jumping onto this bandwagon. He has WAY more power in this country than the ambulance chaser Thompson.

Dr. Phil was singly handedly picked by Oprah. Sure his show is nothing more than Jerry Springer with a better set now, but he has Oprahs trust, and with Oprahs trust comes the power to rule the world.

[quote name='RollingSkull']Sure, Fox News went with the populist blowhard ("Hyper-Republican?" Look, Republican is not defined as "Stuff you disagree with.") Jack Thompson, but MSNBC and ABC are already using this tragedy to pimp their gun control agenda.

Ah, journalists. They really want to unearth lawyers as the scummiest of professions.[/quote]

They did years ago.
 
Dr. Phil is a joke. As one who holds a master's in mental health counseling, it aggravates me the way he handles his "counseling" on his show. No true psychologist would do what he does, having people come on a TV show and then basically telling them what they have to do, and then sending them off. That's not how it works. You think any of those people are gonna change and improve their lives after that? He might have a doctorate in clinicial psych, but to the real world psychologists, my old colleagues and past professors, he's nothing. Yet everyone else just buys into his bullshit.
/rant, my apologies
 
[quote name='moiety']Dr. Phil is a joke. As one who holds a master's in mental health counseling, it aggravates me the way he handles his "counseling" on his show. No true psychologist would do what he does, having people come on a TV show and then basically telling them what they have to do, and then sending them off. That's not how it works. You think any of those people are gonna change and improve their lives after that? He might have a doctorate in clinicial psych, but to the real world psychologists, my old colleagues and past professors, he's nothing. Yet everyone else just buys into his bullshit.
/rant, my apologies[/quote]

Yeah, he's much less of a psychologist than a "common sense guru."
 
[quote name='javeryh']That is really really scary. He is out of his freaking mind. I noticed he mentioned all of the more recent school shootings but failed to bring up the one in Texas that had been the biggest in US history before Monday - you know, the one that happened in 1966 - prior to video games. The Beatles did release "Revolver" that year though so I'm sure that had something to do with it...[/QUOTE]

Actually that might be a hot button issue considering if he wants to blame the "trainer" of people who commit violent acts he'd have to blame the U.S. Marines for the TX shooting...
 
[quote name='RollingSkull']Sure, Fox News went with the populist blowhard ("Hyper-Republican?" Look, Republican is not defined as "Stuff you disagree with.") Jack Thompson, but MSNBC and ABC are already using this tragedy to pimp their gun control agenda.

Ah, journalists. They really want to unearth lawyers as the scummiest of professions.[/QUOTE]

Not that Democrats don't have their own asinine "We must protect the children!" tendencies (Hil and Tipper, I'm looking at you), but Thompson IS a vocal Republican.
 
[size=+4]Yeehaw!!![/size]

[size=+2]I can pick off the hair of a house fly from 2000 yards using this computer mouse![/size]

I hope they don't find anything videogame related in this tragedy.
 
[quote name='trq']Not that Democrats don't have their own asinine "We must protect the children!" tendencies (Hil and Tipper, I'm looking at you), but Thompson IS a vocal Republican.[/quote]
But the "We must protect the children!" motif usually comes more from blowhard populism than conservatism. Only the most stringent social con would seriously want to regulate video games, as such a thing simply does not square with any sensible definition of conservative legal principles.

Unfortunately, as any good conservative will tell you, GOP legislators are dimwits.

Still, the impulse is the same, be it video games, guns, trans fats, what have you.
 
[quote name='Halo05']I read "train farts" first and was very confused.[/quote]

I read tranny farts... :lol:
 
In brain-breaking (for me), day-old news, one Rush Limbaugh actually came to the defense of the general gaming hobby and Reason here. I wanted to applaud him, but then I reflexively thought about everything he's said in recent years that drew my ire, and had to wonder what his agenda is.

Oh well, regardless of what his motivations are, it was encouraging to see someone with inarguable clout and (literally and figuratively) heft stick up for the 'easy target' here.
 
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