How low does a person go to capitalize on someone else’s tragedy? Apparently not low enough. In line with being the complete asshole that he is, Jack Thompson has cracked down on today’s Virginia Tech shootings and blamed it on, guess what, videogames! Going on Fox News, this “School Shooting Expert” (BAH!) talked at length about videogames being “murder simulators” and linked them to the rise in school shootings. And the sad joke is that, as of now, no one really knows what really happened up there in VATech. But obviously Jerkbag Jack doesn’t care about all of that!

What pisses us most about this douchebag and his idiotic rants on national television is how his comments will be gobbled up the mindless masses who would like nothing more than make videogames the sacrificial scapegoat in one of America’s worst tragedies. So the shooter was apparently an Asian, and may or may not have been a student, which means that the chances of the police actually finding a violent videogame in his room are extremely high. Heck, my friend’s 16-year old sister likes Gears of War, so hey, show me one average teen in today’s world without a violent videogame on their shelf!

Like VJ said quite sarcastically in a conversation soon after, after all, videogames did create violence in the world and the Nintendo DS is used to secretly molest children. Baseless accusations seem to be the latest media craze these days, with anything and everything being said in the name of soundbites. More on this breaking news as it develops, even as our heartfelt condolences go out to those who lost their friends / family in this atrocity.

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• Yadu Rajiv Says:
  April 17th, 2007 at 12:09 pm

  *sigh* went to bed yesterday night thinking that someone is gonna scream violence in games and poof!! sad what happened though

• the ANGRY pixel blog » Blog Archive » Death, Lies and Videotape Says:
  April 18th, 2007 at 9:39 pm

  [...] chaser-cum-attorney Jack Thompson to get himself an audience with the nation on Fox, citing videogames as a cause for such violent events. As if post-9/11 terrorism and and radical fundamentalism wasn’t getting enough attention in [...]

• the ANGRY pixel » Video Interview: Alan Bowman Talks Educational Content Says:
  October 26th, 2007 at 12:55 pm

  [...] aim of deconstructing the myth that games can only be used as “practice” for deranged schoolkids with guns. Are you watching, huh, Jack [...]