If all these "Murder Simulators" are training these kids to kill, we ought to send all of the best Halo players to Iraq. War solved.

"So eloquent"...in promoting fear. Jack Thompson and FOX "News" together...it's like eating a dogshit haggis.

"School shootings expert"
Looks like Fox doesn't check a guys background! Quick, someone call Fox and tell them that your god and get on TV!

let's all pool some money together and open up www.jackthompsonisanasshat.com and we'll post all of his quotes and grandstanding moments along with evidence to the contrary...

what do ya think?

i like your idea nademagnet...we could also make videos of us pretending to shoot up schools with wii controllers...

Jack Thompson is fucking disgusting. End of story.

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And don't get me started on Jeff Weise and the red lake shootings, the trouble is this post is already way to long.
People should start listening to real experts and not the likes Jack Thompson or Dave Grossman (sorry I know I am soiling this comments section just mentioning their names), these people just distract attention from the real causes and also worryingly use their so called expertise to try to lesser killers sentences.
Someone who is a real expert though is Dr. Helen Smith who is a forensic psychologist in Knoxville, Tennessee. She has evaluated over five thousand mentally-disturbed children and adults, and has become an expert on kids who kill. She did a national survey of violent and nonviolent kids, which means she had the opportunity to hear what kids themselves had to say.
Smith objects to the way many experts blame violent television, mental disturbance (the "bad seed"), video games or some rock group's edgy lyrics for the school killings. Those experts, she contends, aren’t listening to the kids. She believes that violence comes from the accumulation of many distorted thoughts and stressors that finally send a child over the edge. In short, it's the way he or she processes what they see, hear, and experience. Kids who use violence to solve a problem have already had a number of violent thoughts. They perceive their environment and their situation in such a way that violence seems the best mode of action. That is, children who kill are predisposed to kill. They don’t just snap. They have a restricted view of other people’s rights and they feel they must bring their situation to some dramatic conclusion.

Thompson is a D-Bag. What happened is tragic, and should be respected, so don't go pushing you anti-videogame agenda at time like this especially. He has no respect. I think he needs to be banned from society.

@ Amalgamut00:

Actually, the military has. Google 'Marine Doom'. It was used to teach squad tactics though, not actual weapon skills.

Isn't anyone just crazy anymore or is video games the cause of all shootings and death?

That FUCKTARD needs to play Brain Academy.
But maybe he'll suck at it and his anger towards videogames will grow.

School Shootings Expert. THAT, MADE, MY, DAY. Holy shit.

Jack has got videogames and gamers for that matter all wrong. I play violent video games so I dont go around killing people. Shooting virtual characters in a game is a way taking some of the stresses of the day of my shoulders. The world is full of fucked up people and to think that violent video games causes antisocial assholes to go on a killing spree is just plain wrong. I think that if we didnt have these types of games, this kind of stuff would happen more often. And just remember that when I chainsaw you in GoW I dont actually plan on going to your house and hacking you to pieces.

My favorite was his interview on hard copy, i think. Sen. Thompson (people actually voted for this guy) says his favorite bible story is david and goliath, and when the interviewer points out that it ends with david lopping off goliath's head jack actually flintched, and when asked would you let your kids play a david and goliath game, he really had no response. How does a man like this get on tv?? You some kid is going to get all his halos and dooms confiscated and grounded when his moron parents hear this shit.

The video game industry continues to dominate Hollywood in terms of sales and exposure. Mr. Thompson is just looking for an easy target (aka whoever is on top must be the culprit). Religious right-wing "do-gooders" have always had weak arguments that appeal to the couch potato public. Lots of talking and no walking (Fox News seems to do the walking for Thompson every time). There tons of Jack Thompsons out there - it's our job to let our loved ones know that these hackjobs need to go down. You too, Dr. Phil - you needs to be out, holmes.

I had recently went to Best Buy to pick up GTA: San Andreas (PC, don't ask) and I was actually carded at the register. I basically look 10 years younger than my actual age, so I didn't get all pissed. I commended the cashier and mentioned Jack Thompson to her and she was very interested to hear my rant about how that school shootings expert might one day take some video game titles off the shelves and piss off masses of gamers like myself. But as long as retailers and parents uphold to the ESRB regulations somehow, we will be needing a lot less of big daddy Jack Thompson.

Another quick thought. I want to see this asshole roll up into a public school in my hood to tackle violence. He wouldn't even have half the balls to even consider it. NYC public schools have had metal detectors, frisking and cops for years. Who's to blame here, Jack? Pokemans? DDR in gym class? He could care less about the problems that have plagued the inner city for decades (yet it correlates with his current agenda). A little out there, sorry...

Some great comments here, Dtoid. Dig all of them. Keep the ignorance in check.

actually, these are the recent facts about the shooter.

http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/17/cho-seung-huis-plays/

this is the 3rd article I read his plays, it seems the killer was a loner silent type who sticked to himself always. Most of his conditions showed on school play's and English papers.

If you read them you wouldnt have thought twice to report him to the Dean or a police person. If anyone in your class tends to be like this guy, please report to higher personel to avoid similar tragedy.

It is really sad this happened, and this JT guy doesn't waste any time to make him self appear on the news and blame it on VideoGames. according to the facts, IF anyone is to be blamed on the SCHOOL itself for not taking action or even the STUDENTS them self for not reporting him.

Those papers are not from a normal mind set, they didn't even have a metaphor or point to get across, they just showed anger, violence, death, sex, and most of all a huge hatred between the characters...

This is an irrelevant comment, but good god his voice is so tedious. I find it hard to concentrate it just sounds so bland and uninteresting, argh, it attacks so many of my sensibilities, it's just not human.

Jack needs a new job. He's worn out his current one.

Gee, did he drink Coke or wear jeans or Nike's before or during? Maybe his pattern of consumption is also to blame. You can never prove causality without randomly allocating sociopaths to different stimuli and seeing which ones pick up guns.

how does one become an expert in school shootings...did he participate?

"School shootings expert"

He has experience. Someone's oging to raid his closet and find a secret stash of GTA games.

HOLY SHIT!!! I'm the fucking second coming of wayne gretzky and rambo if u can train for real life through video games.
Wayne Grambo

I'm sorry but unless you have a fucking degree in psychology (raises hand half-way), a normal person cannot pick up on some of these so-called "signs" that a person is going to do things such as this.

I really wish this prick would fight against something that is meaningful and/or more challenging....like priests who molest children, or people who sell drugs to kids. Ohhh yeah that is way to hard. It is much easier to profit off of school shootings and then blaming violent entertainment mainly video games to make a living as a lawyer.

What a trooper! Way to go you fucking nut sack. I bet his kids play GTA and shit at there friends house or they get beat up a lot.

FUCK JACK THOMPSON!!!!!!!