@ BudgetMessiah

Yes, I was being ironic and sarcastic. And, yes, it is true men are more likely to commit crime than women. All the same, that doesn't mean all men are criminals. Also, many women have committed horrible crimes (the one who drowned her children in the bath-tub; some women killers are known collectively as Black Widows because they marry than kill their husbands and repeat). Most states have prisons strictly for women. Like you stated there is a difference between correlation and causation.

So even if JT were right about the guy playing games, at all, that wouldn't mean that games made him kill anyone. After-all there have been multiple people who have killed or had people killed without games influencing them or playing them. Hitler or Cleopatra for example.

I'm rather glad Jack is spear-heading the Blame Games movement, nothing says failure like Jack Thompson.

MSNBC had an article about the Hardball episode...
"The shooting on the Virginia Tech campus was only hours old, police hadn't even identified the gunman, and yet already the perpetrator had been fingered and was in the midst of being skewered in the media. Video games.... Or so Jack Thompson told Fox News and, in the days that followed, would continue to tell anyone who'd listen. "

You might have survived Hardball, but your integrity died.

@Starsmore -- thanks for that tidbit. So, basically, Jack saw it first in print, and even though it was rescinded it's now "FACT!" for him. This doesn't surprise me.

Oh, and for anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about, my above post is relevant to this artcle:

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/13296/Jack-Thompson-Blames-Bill-Gates-for-...

Well, the fact is that video games cause violence.
Well, the fact is that Cho probably played Counterstrike when no one was looking.
Well, the fact is that gamers are illiterate, overweight losers who spend all their free time in the dark in front of a screen.
Well, the fact is that animation and video games are only for the kiddies.
Well, the fact is that the White album contained secret messages intended solely to be interpreted by Charles Manson.
Well, the fact is that Kirk is better than Picard.
Well, the fact is that green peppers are incredibly nasty.
Well, the fact is that Rock n' Roll is corrupting the youth of the nation with all its girations and double entendres and so on.
Well, the fact is that the sun goes around the earth.
Well, the fact is that I am 100% correct about absolutely everything ever.

Just making sure all the facts are straight.

"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it."

That's JT's M.O.

Does anyone know who that quote is attributed to?

..eww double post.

But I did tack down the URL, by following back to Game Almighty. Apparently Laddy Jack does have some trouble understanding the ebays. And the idea of a browser cache.

Sorry Laddy Jack, that article doesn't make reference to Microsoft-published Counterstrike. Not that I can imagine why it was excised. It couldn't possibly be because investigators found no games at all in the shooter's room. Or that the statement was flat out inaccurate to begin with.

No no. I'm sure that the Post is in on the grand conspiracy. Are the Gettys involved with the Post? Because, you know, they're in... The Pentavirate. It's a well known fact, Laddy Jack, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.

Wow... Well I can say that Jack has a knack for saying the same damned piece of evidence over and over again. I counted about 3 times (not 100% sure) that "the FBI and Secret Service found a common denominator in all school shootings, video games". That is completely false, troubled students have been shooting others long before the birth of Pong.

Every time I hear him rant on using the same false evidence, I wonder... "Who believes this BS??" I never really form a bias towards anything unless the evidence is overwhelming, and nothing that Jack has said showed that video games have ANYTHING to do with some guy going insane and killing 1-2 dozens of people.

Lastly, how can Counter-Strike teach you how to lower your heart rate? No simulation can imitate the recoil, sound, and feel of a real gun. People don't die with a grunt and fall, they remain alive for a short while, begging for their lives. There is no game that can match that gruesome reality.

I wonder if Jack can go any lower than this. But hey, he has the balls to do anything, but no brains or info to back it up.

~Akalic

Thompson is just an A$$hole trying to gain more controversial fame. As a gamer we should just stick to what we do best, gaming. Trying to blame video games for Cho's actions, is like blaming spoons for making people fat.

@Gameboy

Not sure if you were trying to be ironic, but there is definitely a correlation between having a penis and the commission of violent crime. Men are many times more likely to murder than women, for example. But the point remains, correlation is not the same thing as causality. No one's suggesting that we ban the Y chromosome...so far.

For someone that is an "expert" in this type of field he sure doesnt know games well at all.

Counter-strike is a game were TERROIST and COUNTER TERROIST fight each other out. I think thats a pretty noble kind of game(depending on side) but still he doesnt explain it well.

The best part about the whole interview was at the end when he said that one kid trained on SCMRPG. That games graphics is compairable to poke'mon for the gameboy. How does that train someone for real life killing?

"Typical Chris Matthews, which is why he is repeatedly made sport of on SNL. You survive Hardball, which I did."

Chris Matthews didn't need to play much Hardball to make Jacky Boy look foolish.

So Jacky Boy didn't survive at all.

WATCH THE PWZING ITSELF.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sd0pbuhsQQE

What do you mean people can't drop Counterstrike? I played it for a while, and I don't play it anymore.

Idiot.

OK, people i agree with Jer and counter strike is such a just plain fun game thats why this disturbed freak was glued to his computer. I do the same thing. And matthews, YOU OWN! i couldnt put it better myself!

So his heart-rate was low because games taught him to be a calm killer? WTF!? Whenever I play a game with fast-paced action my heart-rate tends to increase. Especially when you fight that really hard boss and its such a close match that one mistake will cause you to lose or you're playing a friend in a game and you are even match for each other. What do you guys do when you win/lose? I usually sigh, it's time to wind down. It was stressful!

Wait did Thompson just say they were inconsistent with their comments? Pot calling the kettle black me thinks.

I'm still kinda worried. They didn't find any games with the search warrant but we don't know what the CDs were and what is on his PC. Like Jack said, probably 80% of college students play games. That's a pretty good chance that he does. Still, even if he never talked to his roommates, it's likely they would know if he played games. I doubt he'd try to hide it.

This just in! I don't mean to alarm you, but... the killer had a penis. Now, we'd like to advise that parents watch their children with penises, as we still aren't sure what effect this has on them. If you need a control we recommend that you compare them to the children without them. If there are any major differences in personality or behavior, we advise you to contact a doctor or psychiatric professional.

@ InsidiousMrMoo
Thats like someone arguing with you about what you ate for breakfast. “I had a poptart” JT: “No, you had waffles and bacon.”

Damn, that was funny. I think I'll start using this with my friends. :P

@ Keaton2008
I get what you're saying, but i think that's part of the joke.

Chris Matthews actually played Hardball with JT? I'm shocked... mostly because it seems like Chris was actually playing Hardball. Way to go Mister Matthews! Its about time someone (other than everyone else) pointed out all the big holes in JT's logic.

Because nobody's ever been able to coldly and methodically kill people without the use of video games to train them. Right...

ahhhhh he he ok i get it now (lol sorry for that blonde moment)

@Dog_Welder

As Starsmore said, the washington post orginally did mention counterstike but took it down... From what i gather, the reason for this is because they did find out that Cho played counterstike, however they later realized that the information they had was about Cho back when he was in high school... meaning they found out he played counterstike about 3 or so years ago, but they didn't know if he was still playing the game in recent years; so they revised the article... With the information they had, they could say that he used to play counterstike, but not that he currently played countersrike...

In this interview, Jack in his desperate attempt to pin this on video games is relying on that old information to claim that Cho still played counterstike in his college years, claiming that gamers don't just stopped doing those kinds of things... ofcourse, i know from personal experience that a gamer can just stop like Cho did... i used to OBSECIVELY play MMO's when i was in high school, but over the summer before i went to college, i stopped playing MMOs... i figured it was for the best... grant it, now even when the police have said that they didn't find any video games, Jack still makes the claim he was a counterstike player... Man, this is sounding a lot like that time with Robia, when Jack once again countiued to claim video games as the blame despite there not being any evidence of a such... i wonder how long it will be until he claims Cho desposed of the games before he went nuts...

Really, Jack even ingores the words of Cho's roomates... sure they didn't know Cho personally, but all they had to do was look over at his computer screen to find out what he was doing... They saw that he was always doing stuff like writing, not playing games like counterstike

Jack Thompson makes more lies than gamers make insults about him.

Kotaku: FALSE
It's the other way round.

Whatever.

sorry to double post but Hell yea i just heard jack get ripped into and damn was that nice.

I am an advid Counter strike player, i play both installment, which are Coutner-Strike 1.6 and Coutner Strike:Source. I am 16 and people that my age is the key age in which video games affect people. People need to start understanding that a video game only affects the people who cant tell real from the unreal. I log in about 40 hours a week playing both of those games, i have never had the impulse to kill anyone in my life. You cannot blame things like this on video games. I would like to bring up one more thing about this guy playing Coutner Strike and it affecting him. There are leagues, professional leagues that are on T.V. of people playing these games, how can u say a game casued this when there are millions of people playing them, and some are even making money just becasue they are god at them.

It baffles me that Thompson can't even see how irrational he's being about this - which, of course, is one of the hallmarks of being irrational.

He claims to know what Cho was doing, claiming to quote Cho's roommates, even though the roommates' own statements flatly and COMPLETELY contradict what Thompson is claiming.

I'm mildly disappointed that TakeTwo dropped their Contempt of Court suit against Thompson, but I didn't REALLY expect it to go all the way to a ruling, in the first place.

I don't have a problem with Thompson disliking violence in videogames... everyone's entitled to their opinion. But when he outright fabricates "facts," lies about things, and twists the facts to suit his claims... that's simply not acceptible, and he NEEDS to be held accountable for it as long as he tries to put himself forth as a Court Expert on the matter.

My friend was in the ROTC until he hurt his ankle and they disqualified him. I went with him for target practice one day (the first time i had fired any kind of gun) and he went through a bunch of safety stuff first and the showed me how. And guess what? I sucked at it. I couldnt hit anything close to a target and it was real awkward holding and firing the gun. Seems odd that playing counter strike for 5 years did not do such a thorough job of "training" me to kill (not to mention Halo, GOldeneye, Perfect Dark, DoD, etc...)

For Pete's sake, clicking a mouse at an imaginary picture on a screen. This trains people how to kill? Enough already.

Is Thompson trying to shoot himself in the foot now?

I wonder if Thompson will add "This year Jack Thompson went on 'Hardball with Chris Matthews' and got totally owned" to all of this ranting press releases.

Sorry to double post, but I just saw the video message he left on the news.

"[Thanks to you] I die like Jesus Christ."

Now be honest, anti-gaming enthusiasts. If he had said Carl Johnson instead, would you be looking to ban San Andreas?

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if good ol' Jacky boy convinced some random person to call the Washington Post and claim they knew Cho and that he did play the game Counter-strike. Apparently that one-line excerpt from an article that has since been altered to no longer include the statement was all he needed to get rolling with his typical anti-gaming rhetoric. It would also further explain why the Post removed that excerpt of the story, due to it not being credible or grounded in reality.

Obviously we need to ban the Bible.

@ cppcrusader

I totally agree with you. but i have had a situation like this (not the shooting but a person who was not mentally stable) and it is really really hard to get anything done, especially when that person is over 18. This girl was incredibly unstable, would pull people on these emotional rollercoasters and she needs help badly, and at one time was called by the cops for it. but once they have the person they put them in a hospital and have to ask them if they want help. they can refuse and just leave. there is nothing anyone can do.

Also if you call the cops on someone there could be big problems for you as well. because, like the girl I knew, she could phase in and out of her little tantrums and appear normal. which is how this guy got guns in the first place. and then the cops get on you for false alarming. if he was 18 and this stuff was going on I would only hope his parents would get him some help. but since he was 22 there was probably not much anyone could do until he did something really bad. Although the stalking was close, it wasn't bad enough.

It is just such a grey area. it's so hard to know if the person will or will not do something and you can't do anything until they do. and since this guy obviously didn't have any friends he didn't open up to anyone and get all this frustration vented out. it's all If's and Maybe's and no one can put someone away on maybe's. although sometimes they should be, atleast to get some help. because that is what this guy needed a long time ago.

ps. no I'm not sympathizing with this guy. but he did need help LONG ago to which no one is to blame for it really, besides him.

Make that "Erfurt" without the "h".

To paraphrase: "His roommate doesn't know what he was doing on his computer, but I do."

BWAH?!

"I'd say 80% of the male students in colleges are spending their spare time playing [Counter-Strike]"

And yet, 80% of the male students in colleges aren't running around shooting people.

A big round of applause to Chris Matthews for actually engaging in a logical debate, rather than just having a head come and talk at him.

He also said that Germany changed its laws after that german schoolshooting. That did not happen.

So, many more lies Jack "soon to be disbarred" Thompson ?

this man has my respect. its good to know that not every media figurehead has their head up their ass.

It is interesting how Thompson states that the Erfurt Massacre in Germany was the worst school shooting in the world until what happened at Virginia Tech. It seems like he is conveniently forgetting about the UT of Austin in 1966. Erfurt had more people killed -- 16 to Whitman's 15 -- but there were over 30 additional people wounded at Austin, putting the victim count three times higher.

The only reason I can think of for Thompson is ignoring that tragedy is that it doesn't help him in his crusade against video games.

This may sound completely horrible, but since the V.Tech shootings, videogames has actually gotten quite a bit of "support" from people that don't normally throw their weight to "our side". First Rush, and now Chris Matthews. Plus the protest rally, and a bunch of publications saying to hold off on blaming games until all the evidence is gathered. Its a big turn around from what normally happens, and for once, only JT and a small handful are jumping the gun and blaming games on it.

Clearly it's all just a coverup by his room-mates, paid for by the game industry... ;)

I watched this last night on Kotaku and all I can say is Chris Matthews did a hell of a job taking JT to task for his rampant speculation, assumptions, and lies.

Also, did I actually hear Thompson refer to games as "Art?"

Didn't he try to claim (under penalty of perjury) that games are not art?

Re: Dog_Welder:

The initial online draft of the Washington Post's story did reference CounterStrike, however it was removed from the website and the actual print article had it excised as well. Which is good considering police found NO GAMES in the kid's dorm.

YES!
These are the questions that should be asked! Thesy are the kint that rip through Jack's warped twisted "logic" More news outlets need to ask him these types of questions.

- Warren Lewis

Been a while since I've posted. o.o

I read through this transcript and I noticed something. Thompson claims that videogames are life imitating art" and so on. Didnt he, in his last filing, declare that games are NOT Art? Just gives me more of an impression this man can't even keep his own lies straight.

As for the rest of the reading, I get the impression Matthews didn't believe a word Thompson said. Not that it's all that hard to disbelieve Jack. He's pulling figures out of his ass and trying to arrange them so that it looks like this shooter was a complete addict to games. e.e

Yay Hack Thompson. A King among fools, and God among television Whoremongers.

According to a story I read, no games were found on the killer's computer.

"When was the most recent testimony, and when is it applied to, that he was involved with “Counter-Strike,” the video game, that Cho was? "
"Cho? His high school friends."
"OK. Well, he is a fourth-year student at Virginia Tech."

So 4 years ago, he played Counter-Strike, and it trained him so well, that 4 years later he was able to start planning a massacre, without ever playing it again?

Wow.

It's about time someone is questioning his "facts".

Aannndd... he sounded like a broken record... saying the same thing over and over.
Looks like he tried to shove Point 1 down but got... heh... countered.

“That‘s right… His own suite mates in Blacksburg said that he was on the computer all the time. He wasn‘t downloading music. He was playing this game. ”

Except all the ones the media are talking to. Who all say he worked on english assignments, not games.

So which imaginary "friend" is JT talking to?

I had heard that Jack Thompson posts here on GamePolitics.com, in an effort to defend his views and beliefs. That's fine, as social debate is healthy and encouraged in our country. However, I was a little surprised to find that he had been banned over fifty times from this site, and he was the sole reason why the ability to post anonymously is now forbidden. That sounds a little obsessive to me.

I imagine he still reads the posts, comments, and so on and so forth, and could even find ways to post comments on this site. People are resourceful, after all...

Anyways, there are so many things that Jack says that I simply don't agree with. Honestly, they are so numerous in quantity, I would spend hours here typing about them, so I'll just skip to the ones more relevant with the VT shooting...

1) Video games "train" minors to be efficient and level-headed killers.
NO. Not even possible. How is the interface of a joystick, mouse, or controller even comparable to an actual gun? You sure as hell don't hold a joystick the same way as a gun. That's most of the basis for this agrument: since the two are so physically different, the ability to learn to maximize your effectiveness with one does NOT translate over to the other. Agent57 stated in his post that, although he was experienced in playing FPS, when he went to a shooting range with a friend, his skills didn't carry over to actual real-life shooting. Same can be said with me: I played Metal Gear Online (not a FPS, but a shooter nonetheless), and I can say I was pretty good at the game, but my cousin five years my junior can destroy me in skeet shooting! And he plays little to no video games, b/c he has a hectic schedule.

2) Violent video games desensitize us towards actual violence.
Hmmmm, a good point that's been around since ancient times. LOL... I think his basis for the argument is that people who see this virtual violence are more predisposed towards committing violent acts. It's a possibility, NOT a statistic. It's not improbable to think that someone could use a video game to "rehearse", but to assume that everyone who plays a particularly violent game has that ambition and that ambition ONLY... well, you know what they say when you assume...

3) Violent video games should not be readily and easily accessible to minors.
I do agree with this, but only to an extent, and I think this statement could be worded a little more carefully. Here's how I see it: When a game is given a "Mature" rating, it means just that. Immature people have no right to play this game. I have heard and witnessed countless violations of this rule in online games. How many times have you heard an angry child, or even an adult, curse you out, call you slanderous names, defame your character, or even go so far as attempt to publicly humiliate you? These people are the ones that the rating system attempts to prevent from playing these games. I know that there are people who act very mature for their age, who play these "Mature" games, who are also under the age limit for these "Mature" games. So, how do we gauge who is and isn't mature enough to participate in these activities? Simple, the parents. The parents, who should know more about their own children than anyone else, are the ones who are responsible for what entertainment their kids are allowed to see/hear/interact with. If your child is able to discern between negative behavior in a virtual/fictional environment and negative behavior in real life, and is able to realize the consequences of such actions as a deterrent to acting upon them, then they are able to partake in a "Mature"-rated game, and behave accordingly. To sum it up: minors buying "Mature" games should be regulated, but the decision to buy that game rests upon the guardians of those children, and no one else. If the guardian and the dependent can reach a consensus as to whether or not the game is appropriate and suitable for them, then it should end there.

I know I am just reiterating what the vast majority of you already know, but this post is more a message to Jack Thompson, who I hope reads this comment.

I am 23 years old. I have played many violent video games, including Resident Evil, most of the GTA series, Max Payne, Metal Gear Solid, a little bit of Halo, God of War, and damn near everything else in between. I have had trouble lately trying to find a job, as my college career has been less than successful. I still enjoy playing video games, even more so when I am either competing against or co-operating with other players. I consider myself a decent and hardworking member of society, even if I am still struggling to find my place.

I REFUSE to take cheap shots at people. I WILL defend myself if someone attacks me or my character/characteristics. I do NOT find it entertaining to belittle anyone, especially based on race, sex, religion, sexual preference, personal choice, hobbies, and/or interests.

Now, looking at several statements you yourself have made,...

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)

it seems that you are quick to go on the defensive, whether someone is being vindictive towards you, or is simply trying to debate a point with you. The former is circumstantial, and can, to an extent, be justified. But the latter, well... Why get so defensive? There are people, believe it or not, who are gamers, whose frontal lobes are not fried, who look forward to a debate with you, who could probably hold their own against you. These people are not out to humiliate you, simply to discuss and compare their views with your own.

I did not write this post with an intent to ridicule you, though I did feel hurt after reading some of the things you have said about gamers as a whole. I simply would like a dialog with you. And if you feel that I am hiding behind a screen name, just ask, and you shall receive my name, address, city, state, vitals, favorite books, music, pets, pet peeves, favorite quotes, and yada yada yada...

I hope to hear from you and discuss this subject like two people, in a tactful and civil manner.

(sorry for the double post)... I had an "end sarcasm" tag after the "Duh!", but it got removed... =(

JT should train on some legal simulators, and maybe stop embarrassing the profession.

It's not enough that this guy was mentally insane and a psychopath, there has to have been another reason (according to other psychos like Thompson). The real tragedy here is that a known psychopath was able to (on two occasions) pass an instant background check and purchase deadly firearms that he then used against his fellow students.

Religion is not a factor here either. This guy was so far gone, and the only thing he could think to ramble about is how he was going to make himself a martyr like Jesus Christ (in itself an insane rambling, since Jesus was non-violent and died for the sake of others). There is no evidence that he was a Christian, a Muslim or anything else. The only evidence points to the fact that he was nuts, and that the Virginia Tech Administration dropped the ball in letting him continue his classes.

In a normal person without psychotic issues, a game like Counterstrike very well could train you how to pull an assault like the one at V-Tech off. But in someone like Cho, where his emotions were already so far detached from reality, it wouldn't have served any additional purpose even IF they could have found evidence that he still plays it.

I'm glad Chris Matthews atleast somewhat presented a counter to Jack Thompsons argument, but I don't think he went far enough.

(*reads the article Mysticgamer pointed out*)

Hmm, rather noteworthy article. I wonder if Thompson read it? If so, I wonder what he thought of it? How it felt for him to be picked apart quite well?

(On a side note, I've been meaning to say this. I really wonder where Jack Thompson gets all his bullcra -- uh, I mean "FACTS" from. I'd say from reading a bowl of alphabet soup. Or listening to a bowl of Rice Krispies.)

@Mysticgamer:

Wow. That's the most serious pwning I've ever seen Thompson get in the mainstream press. There's just... there are so many facts. It makes me... so happy.

OMG, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson how did anyone with such desperatly OPINIONATED views and obvious disregard for the law ever pass the bar? My guess is that he must be best pals with the same people that got President Bush out of Vietnam, that allowed Vice President Cheney to shoot his "friend" in the face with a shot gun (must have played Castle Wolfenstein or Duke Nukem3d), that pulled the wool over the eyes of the United States on 9/11, the same people that sold us all on the weapons of mass deception in Iraq, ... shall I contine?

Hey Jack-ass, next time you go acusing us gamers of being on drugs maybe you should do your own "research."

Excuse me jack, I am presently too busy; smokin' crack, being brainwashed by the presidental administration, beating seals, jackingoff to paris hilton videos, being an anonomus self-googler, and crashing my car whilst playing counter-strike to pay any attention to an egotistical jesus-freak like you.

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I find it interesting that these shootings most commonly happen in America, when games are played all over the world
And that nowadays you can skip blaming the culprit for a crime
And that since games became a multimillion pound industry, the juvenile crime rate has plummeted
And that there are conclusive studies that have found that games actually desensitize to violence LESS than films or television

Unfortunately Jackie Boy doesn't.

I have to say, I'd be more likely to be violent after his incessant fantasizing. who here right now wants to punch the bastard despite being perfectly calm when you started reading the article?