Virginia tech Shooting

[Mysterious F.]

He deserves to be sued for violating the first ammendment, the fifth, and for being a complete... well, I can't say that, can I?  ;)

[darkphantomime]

He 'violates' himself every single day... not to mention quite a few others...

[MasterKeyX]

Maybe we should just stop talking abotu him, it seems to be causing some anger  :P

[Fishalicious]

I agree about stopping the arguments about Jack Thompson; but I'd like to add my two cents:

I hate it when people say something along the lines of "OMG THOSE VIDEO GAMES R CAUSING WW3!!11!!"

I'm not running around killing pigs with a glowing sword, am I? I'm not eating shrooms everyday to be more powerful, am I? I don't run around in darkened rooms running from "ghosts" and eating pellets, or stack blocks to destroy them. I'm actually a pacifist, I'd hate to do any of those things. That's the beauty in simulations and whatnot.

There's millions of gamers, maybe a tiny fraction of the society has thought of a shooting. And what else do they do? They might download music, or watch TV or go on dates with their girlfriend/boyfriend. Does this mean being married/dating is evil and causing ww3? No. More importantly-- why should you care about video games when 33 people are dead?

I think the VT shooting was unfortunate. As for the killer... I'm not in any position to decide right or wrong, who lives, who dies... But I stand that I'm deeply disappointed in him.

A few years back, my math teacher failed someone on a test, and then he went and threatened to kill her and we had a lockdown. No one was killed, but... people like that are stupid. You aren't good at math? No problem, we'll just shoot the teacher!

I hope the families of the victims are coping well with this...

[DW]

That is a very good point Fisk, and I agree wholeheartedly...

[MagmarFire]

That goes for me, too.

There's always a select few individuals that other people think the entire gaming community account 100% for. It's a lot like judging a book by its cover: is it wise? Absolutely not, but people do it.

[DW]

Mostly because they are probably guilty in part for something like that, and they know it. So they try to shift the blame to something else.

For example, I can't get on myspace on our computer anymore because when we got a virus my sister goes 'well he's been going to myspace' and blamed it on me, even though I had been using it for months without problems and the computer started having troubles the day after my sister got on it and went, "Hey, I found Hannah Montana's website!" and started downloading songs and pictures off of it.

[Mysterious F.]

That's actually why most libraries rotate their book collection around so they have newer, more attractable books, Maggy.

The day Jack Thompson dies will be celebrated as an international holiday!  ;D

I'm sure that the families are angry about Jack, while everybody else is grieving over their deaths, Jack is using the deaths as an excuse to ban video games, a terrible one at that.

[DW]

Whoa, please call him by his full name only, calling him by first name is too intimate for someone we despise so badly, plus for a second I thought you were talking about our jack ;)

[darkphantomime]

Mostly because they are probably guilty in part for something like that, and they know it. So they try to shift the blame to something else.

For example, I can't get on myspace on our computer anymore because when we got a virus my sister goes 'well he's been going to myspace' and blamed it on me, even though I had been using it for months without problems and the computer started having troubles the day after my sister got on it and went, "Hey, I found Hannah Montana's website!" and started downloading songs and pictures off of it.

Why don't you tell your parents about that? It may not help you get back your myspace, but it SHOULD help with proper justice...

[DW]

No, they won't listen. Besides, they still have to keep it blocked so SHE doesn't do anything again.

[darkphantomime]

Just tell your parents about the "Hanna montana (un)official website" and sit back and watch the fireworks.

[DW]

She goes to so many of those it's not even funny...like half the websites have Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus in them. Yeah, anyways, Jack Thompson is a perfect example of someone who can't take blame, and feels better by pointing the finger.

[Goosey]

There are just too many people with video games to consider that the cause. I mean really, how many people do you have the systems? How many people do you think are exposed to them? Just because they happen to own a video game, doesn't mean that it was the cause...

You can't say that people with blue shirts are more likely to be depressed because that COLOR is depressing -- there are just too many people that have that color shirt to make a difinitive answer and to say that THAT is the cause of their depression. There are obviously more factors.

[MagmarFire]

Yeah, but remember, Jack Thompson will take just about any tragic act (EVEN the worst school shooting in U.S. history) and use it to push his own agenda. I think the word heartless kind of fits him.