Forget personal responsibility and parental observation, video games are the real killa!

That man scares the bejeezus out of me. The quick-draw assumptions, the posturing, the name-dropping, the wide-open and self-serving disgust of everything even remotely related to video games...

STFUAJGDA (Shut The Fuck Up And Just Get Disbarred Already)

Wow... Did he say a single thing that was (A) True, or (B) related to the VaTech shootings?

I think I have it...

Jack Thompson = Ellsworth Toohey

He blamed Grand Theft auto : Vice City...

This news cast makes me teary eyed... mostly because of the kids, and then you have this assface making it worse!!!

FUCCUCKCKCUFUCUFCUKFKFUCKY OU YOU BITCH!!!!

Disbarred. Thats all I have to say. This man shouldn't be able to practice law.

How the fuck does one train on Super Columbine Massacre RPG?

i hope Jack Thompson's kid goes on a crazy school shooting one of these days. That would make everything perfect. Minus the lost of whoever gets killed the world would be off much better.

The problem is that some of Jack's ideals I can get behind. We do have a responsibility to keep games like GTA out of kids that are only 12 years old. But Jack Thompson really takes it one step too far. Why can't he just use truth to push his ideals? Why does he have to lie to blatantly the way he does. How can anybody even be listening to him right now?

The only reason he is getting any press time is because there are so many people that really have no idea what these video games really are. All these older people and parents just know that these kids are playing video games, and Jack Thompson is telling them that video games are the cause.


never mind the fact that crimes have decreased across the country over the last year. or the fact that gun deaths have decreased. and that the amount of people that play video games is skyrocketing. He has no real evidence. If you have 50 million people that play video games and ONE of them goes on a school shooting, that is not representative of the whole. The same goes for the millions of muslims and a handful do suicide bombings. MOST muslims believe that suicide bombing are wrong. MOST people that play video games will never go on a school shooting.

I've been hearing people say "The only way to get rid of Jack Thompson is to stop talking about Jack Thompson."

I say that's bullshit. He has to keep being portrayed as an asshat, and everyone who knows the truth has to do everything they can to make sure everyone in world knows how completely wrong he is. That he's just an opportunist that plays on the fears of the nation. If we don't, then everyone who doesn't know better, or believes everything they see on TV, will believe him and that will just make the problem worse.

People need to be educated, not scared. If we don't take personal responsibility against Jack Thompson's actions, then he just might gain some ground in holy crusade! To us, he's a fool, but to other's he may make sense. Let's let everyone know!!!

MOST people don't wear reindeer masks and rape undead babies but go with the flow TED....

My jaw literally dropped when I read your first paragraph. Seriously, not in that good sexy way either.

I knew theres going to be a so-called "expert" that will blame video games, music or movie but I never thought that someone would put the blame on video games that early. I mean Jack Thompson just jump at the chance to promote his agenda. Next time Jack Thompson will say the Nintendo Wii and its numchuck controller is a deadly weapon.

Honestly, you guys should not be surprised that jack came out and blamed video-games. If not him, someone else would. When my gf called me to tell me this happened my first comment to her was "Man, more fuel for fucking JT".

Someone will always blame games, best thing we could do is educate those around us.

Expert in school shooting?

WTF!

I don't see how games like Doom or Grand Theft Auto can possibly "Train" a person to go on a killing rampage.

You cannot walk into a gun shop with a badly programmed cashier, tell him "let me see a gun" snatch it and shoot him with it... There's certain real life protocols and issues that get in the way of these things happen.. The very grasp of reality is what Jack seems to be missing these days.

Doom trains people to kill? Last I felt my mouse, it felt nothing like a gun. There's no safety that'll stop me from clicking anything on my mouse. And I know for damn sure that my PS2 controller doesn't feel like a gun either. If anything has taught me more in the use and handling of firearms, it's the news... As for he who says that these things being glorified on the big screen - such as Dr Phil who also just blamed this situation on Violent Video Games - They're forgetting two things that existed in violence before video games got to this level... TV and Movies.

All I really see lawyers like him doing is one thing. Profiting from the death of others. "Your kid was a homicidal maniac, and he's killed someone? Don't you worry, i'll help get you that grand paycheck to make it all better."

http://gamepolitics.com/2007/04/17/dr-phil-blames-video-games-for-virginia-tech-massacre/

I just loved how his voice cracked at the end. I really wonder if that was calculated. Could he have actually rehearseed the little almost crying bit before he got on the phone?

You beat me to it Whiskey Jak, I was going to link you guys ut whatever.

I think Crecente might hate JackTom more that D'toid...

Here's the classic tale of 'old people' hating 'new things'.

Look, I think.

Apparently these people don't. They imply that the shooter trained by playing Video Games and that his attack was premeditated- connecting this to the games played...Well I've never heard of any game that takes place in an exact replica of Virginia Tech University. I don't know of any game that requires you to lock doors to trap innocent bystanders in a building so you can go on a rampage. Why can't people see that games imitate life(in some cases) not the other way around. Shootings existed before games, but then they blamed movies...

Hey middle class America, grow some balls and blame yourselves for your fucked up children. There are many gamers all across the world who play these same games, and yet American shootings are highest in the world. How can this correlation hold any merit? It's totally biased, he isn't looking at a wide enough audience, he's using concentrated samples of isolated incidents. You cannot base a solid thesis on these kinds of numbers. Theres a problem with your society Jack, not it's favourite entertainment medium.

Last time I checked, our President kills more people than that every day and he never pulls a trigger. I think someone should look into that first. Also, I use Halo to plan out my massacres. Doom worked pretty good at first, but then I discovered plasma grenades and realized one could kill 20 people if I throw it right.

Yep, I am one of those guys that says ignoring Jack Thompson will get rid of him. He's an attention whoring spoiled brat in a grown man's body. He fully well knows you won't ignore him so he purposely acts up just so interest in generated in what he has to say. Need I remind you about that college debate tour he went on where he encouraged people to wear their "I hate Jack Thompson" t-shirts". He's exploiting your hatred for him...

Now I'm not simply saying ignore him because we can't just give him free reign to do whatever the hell he wants but I think we have talked about the guy WAY too much. Every time he acts up all the major game sites report the hell out of it and JT loves it. Besides, I don't think that our help is needed too much as half the lawsuits he files fail miserably and his attempt to draft laws get shot down. Not only have the judges been shooting down virtually everything he's tried, but he's also managed to make a fool out of him on repeated occasstions. Still I don't think that paying a massive amount of attention to the guy is really very necessary.

Urge to kill...RISING!! Someone put this shitlicker out of his misery already.

Jack Thompson... what a fuckin bitch he is... just cos his kids beat him on street fighter every day!

As hideously misguided as the man is, at this point I almost have to admire his dedication. It's hard to stay dedicated to preposterous ideas, especially ones like his, and his single-mindedness has allowed him to do so. Obviously he really believes everything he's saying, even if most of it is blatantly misguided, misinformed, and incorrect.

So we'll just have to keep doing our duty; correct the fallacies that he is spreading in his cause. One individual cannot give an entire group a bad name unless the group can come up with no reasoning or logic to refute that individual. And so far, gamers as a whole have been doing a pretty great job at providing such reasoning.

Jack can go off on his crusade as long as he wants, it's almost Sisyphisian in nature. He can push the boulder up the hill as many times as he is able, but in the end the weight of fact and reason will roll over him and back down to the level field of logical thinking.

Yeah, you definitely need to put the Kotaku link that Whiskey Jak posted in this story. People need to see Crecente completely dismantle Phantom Jocks' entire case.

the word jack is fine.

the word thompson is fine.

the usage of these words within 7 words from eachother should be banned from all gaming blogs/news/forums/etc. treat him like the idiot in elementary school. maybe if we ignore him he'll go away.