Another shooting...

[DW]

The circumstances were very similar, yes. There was also a shooting in Colorado at a High School that didn't get a lot of coverage.

[Vaati]

But I think the one about the first grade boy shoot a girl in his class is pretty sad. I mean, first graders shouldn't even know how to use a gun much less know that they exist. The boy didn't kill himself (unlike the two boys at Columbine who did), andthat makes me want to ask him "What were you thinking? What made you want to shoot her?"

[DW]

You have such a small grasp on consequence when you're that age, you've have no idea what'll happen when you do something, you don't know about right and wrong, or the law...

[MagmarFire]

Then why would a parent in his or her right mind let his or her child operate a firearm? Unless s/he didn't give a darn to start with. Or if s/he didn't know about it. Come to think of it, why would a firearm be within reach of the child, anyway?

[Hi no Seijin]

Because people are inherently stupid, MagmarFire.  School and life teach many people valuable lessons, but some people just never learn.

[DW]

I'd actually like to read up on it and see if the kid's parents were alcoholics or something.

EDIT: Apparently he sent his girlfriend a goodbye note.

Linkage.

[Vaati]

His mother was being evicted and I think his dad was in prison. So he was staying at his uncle's house, and that's where he found the gun.

[darkphantomime]

I'd like to see the news on this first grade shooter. Link?

[Gamefreak]

Kids dying in schools are Jack Thompson's bread and butter.

[DW]

Why doesn't he at least try and show some compassion for the dead?

[MagmarFire]

I'll wager...because he's just too busy trying to outlaw Halo.

[Gamefreak]

Warning!  Hell just froze over.  Source: Gamepolitics.com

Jack Thompson Weighs In on Mass Effect
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Kotaku reports that frequent video game critic Jack Thompson has weighed in on the Mass Effect situation - with, perhaps, a surprising view.

Editor Brian Crecente quotes from Thompson from a recent e-mail exchange:

I don't see any problem with [Mass Effect]. The guy who shot his mouth off about it [on Fox News] had no idea what the Hell he was talking about... This contrived controversy is absolutely ridiculous. Report that, why don't you?

[DW]

...What's this 'contrived controversy' in the first place?

Also, wasn't Jack Thompson Debarred or something like that?

[darkphantomime]

That just had to do with some Fox News guest misrepresenting Mass Effect as every teenage boy's interactive sexual plaything. It was just retarded because they all just fell to that one little detail being distorted beyond belief (mass effect featuring interactive romance).

And that children, is why modern journalism has gone to hell in the modern age: No one is willing to check their sources. EVERYONE's up and on with ratings... so you know what that means. That's right... Even MORE interactive sexual playthings!

[alical]

Mass Effect was banned in Singapore for a while because it showed a human and alien 'caressing'.
I find that rather funny.