Jack Thompson (seen left, looking like a degenerate douche bag) continues to use the tragic deaths of 32 students at Virginia Tech to push his narrow-minded agenda. This time, his target is Microsoft head-honcho, the man himself, Bill Gates.
In a letter sent to Microsoft from Mr. Grasshopper, he makes the claim that Microsoft is potentially liable for the shooting, as well as making a shameless, and unnecessary tie between Counter-Strike, VaTech, and 9/11. No joke.
‘Several Korean youths who knew Cho Seung Hui from his high school days said he was a fan of violent video games, particularly Counterstrike, a hugely popular online game published by Microsoft, in which players join terrorism or counterterrorism groups and try to shoot each other using all types of guns.’”
Mr. Gates, your company is potentially legally liable the harm done at Virginia Tech. Your game, a killing simulator, according to the news that used to be in the Post, trained him to enjoy killing and how to kill. You knew five years ago that your on-line game, Counterstrike, so clearly figured in the massacre by a student in Erfurt that the event and the game impacted the race for Chancellor in Germany at the time!
Yet, here you are, five years after “Erfurt,” still marketing Counterstrike. having done nothing to disable the server(s) for this mass murder simulator, and it looks like “Virginia Tech” is a consequence. There’s more going on in the world than Vista. Just ask the bereaved Virginia Tech families.
Mr. Gates, pull the plug on Counterstrike today, or do we need more dead to convince you? “Virginia Tech” was the 9-11 of school shootings, and it appears Microsoft is in the middle of it, in more ways than one.
Most fascinating claims, considering that there were no video games found at the loon’s apartment. By loon, I am now referring to the shooter. Hell, he was never even seen playing games by his roommate, so Jack… please… shut the hell up.
You too, Dr. Phil. Last week on CNN’s Larry King Live, while Larry was pondering exactly how he got to the studio, Dr. Phil proceeded to spew the following filth.
The problem is we are programming these people as a society. You cannot tell me - common sense tells you - that if these people are playing video games where they’re on a mass killing spree in a video game, it’s glamorized on the big screen, it’s become part of the fiber of our society. You take that and mix it with a psychopath, a sociopath, or someone suffering from mental illness, add in a dose of rage, the suggestability is just too high. And we’re going to have to start dealing with that. We’re going to have to start addressing those issues and recognizing that the mass murderers of tomorrow are the children of today that are being programmed with this massive violence overdose.
No surprise there, Dr. Phil has always used his show, and any other show he’s on, to point his self-righteous finger at what he perceives as “the problem.”
Now, there have also been many who have defended video games against yet another attack, but the voice of reason, the one person who TRULY understands and gets this situation, is Rush Limbaugh.
…wait, what?! Did I just say… wait, let me re-check this… holy shit, it is Rush Limbaugh.
Not every video gamer goes out and murders 33 people on the college campus though. There’s more to this than that. We can find all kinds of societal problems and ills, but the fact of the matter is that whatever you would look at as a bad influence — video games as you mentioned — it may desensitize people, but it doesn’t turn everybody into mass murderers…But how many people are playing video games out there? How many millions of people play video games, and how many millions of people have guns?
…wow, I can’t believe he actually said something with substance. That is just… wow. He’s right, though. Video Games can, and in some cases, have desensitized us to certain aspects of the world around you and I. At the same time, to say that Counter-Strike drove you to kill a family of twelve, is simply using the video game industry as a scapegoat to rationalize your madness when in reality the issue lies inside of yourself.
While gaming can desensitize us to some forms of violence, I believe that movies, and ESPECIALLY television have done more to desensitize us to violence. Shows like “The Situation Room” and “Hannity & Colmes” have done so much more to desensitize us to the world around us than anything concocted in fiction. The hypocrisy in the mainstream media to blame violence in the media one minute, then after the commercial break show images of dead Iraqis and suicide bombings in Iraq simply boggles my mind. Remember when Saddam was hung, how the media treated that as a borderline holiday? I’m not saying they shouldn’t have, but if you DO, then I feel you lose the right to then place blame when people are indifferent to death.
Before I click “Publish”, I have but a single request for you, the reader: Go to Dr. Phil’s website, and demand an apology! Click This Link, and ask, plead, or demand an apology from Dr. Phil for placing blame before having all the facts. He owes it to us, himself, and his audience.
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