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  Gary15 | April 16, 2007
  I was personally quite appaled by this. It just seems to be like he is trying to use a really tragic event such as this to further his own agenda.
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    tekmosis | April 16, 2007
    lol, if this is appaling then I assume you haven't heard much about Jack Thompson? He's done a lot of stuff like this; blaming video games for violence, etc. Someone had stollen a car and there was a video game inside the car. Guess who blamed the guys actions on video games? yup, goold ol' Mr. Thompson. The guys over at Penny Arcade actually had some troubles with him, too. All of which were highly amusing to read about.
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      Gary15 | April 16, 2007
      Yeah I read the whole penny arcade episode where he tried to get them arrested, he's a total joke, but it seems as soon as something bad happens he jumps on it to blame video games.
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  Cloakblade5 | April 16, 2007
  video games can't cause things like this. bad parenting, no friends, and neglect can though. I agree with gary
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  tekmosis | April 16, 2007
  wow, I just breifly looked at the news article on this on CNN and it said 33 people including the shooter were killed. That's just...wow, I am completely shocked at the huge number of people who were killed in this...wow this is just shocking
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  Gary15 | April 16, 2007
  Yeah it's the worst school shooting in the US ever I think, really sad, that's why it gets to me that Jack Thomspon jumps on it like this. He doesn't give a damn about the people who died he just wants to get his point across.
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  ITANI | April 16, 2007
  At least he never directly blamed GTA for this, because he has linked a death to nearly every GTA and not to forget Manhunt.
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  Guugley | April 17, 2007
  Quite a stupid thing to come out with. To be honest, I've never heard of him before but this sounds pretty pathetic. Gary's first comment seems right too, tragic to hear about this though.
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  neto_360 | April 17, 2007
  I don't see how someone could take such a tragic event and try to twist it to make himself seem right about something....
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  Dragons Call | April 17, 2007
  I know Jack Thompson was a bit of a soccer-parent "Ban all things above Teen" kind of person toward gaming, but this takes the cake.
  
  An embarrassment to society, I say. I got an idea, how about we blame the stupid things of this world on Jack Thompson!?
  
  Seriously, that's just sick.
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  Deathsythe | April 17, 2007
  Leave it for this jackass to use a great tragedy like this as a platform for his anti-violent entertainment. While watching Fox this morning about this, they had Jack Thompson on the phone, as a "School Shooting Specialist". After hearing that title, I died a little bit. After this he began naming off games that shooters used as "training", such as; GTA: Vice City, Doom, and company.
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  Gary15 | April 17, 2007
  I don't live in America but I heard a lot about him being on tv news channels over there, did anyone happen to catch what he was saying?
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  dmf_dynasty | April 17, 2007
  It makes you wondering what really has him so pissed off at video games. I live in West Virginia and a lot of the people here were really appalled seeing as they knew some people near or in the school. 33 lives lost and he blames it on a game. That's sick in itself.
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    NyffTotal90 | April 17, 2007
    I completely agree. Jack Thompson took his chance, and no doubt waited for something like this to happen. 33 lives were lost, yet he has the nerve to blame this terrible incident on video games. Really is sickening.
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  Kokoro | April 17, 2007
  Jack Thompson is an idiot. Videogames have nothing to do with it and this guy constantly blames them! Seriously, this guy should just kill himself because no one will miss him. Okay, maybe not kill himself, but he needs to be punished somehow.
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  Reenee | April 17, 2007
  Gary, the already politically-slanted Fox News summoned Jack Thompson as some sort of "expert" on this, even though he's a goddamned lawyer. And he was already calling out games WITHOUT ANY BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE GUNMAN.
  
  It's not just this jackass, it's the media too.
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  madtown | April 17, 2007
  Man that is just sad... taking a nation-wide tragedy and twisting it to support his own cause, people are going to start to believe him no doubt.
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  Reenee | April 17, 2007
  What do you mean, "start to believe him"? There's idiots out there already.
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    Gary15 | April 17, 2007
    Unfortuantely he's right....parents especially will see this idiot on tv and think what he is saying is true
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  Ameer | April 17, 2007
  *sighs*              
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  Cool Blue | April 17, 2007
  Some video games are responsible for certain incidents, while others are just because of the parent being stupid enough to let their child play Grand Theft Auto, but this had in no way, to do with video games...
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  ali3n | April 17, 2007
  I find it pathetic how he attempts to connect all gun violence to games.
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  Bri | April 17, 2007
  Thompson is like a parasite, waiting and leeching off of anything that comes his way. His credibility, however is damaged after last year's fiacos, no one is taking him seriously.
  
  Has there been any report of the killer playing any games ala Columbine?
  
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    Gary15 | April 17, 2007
    None at all as far as I'm aware, Jack Thompson had jumped in to blame video games before we were even sure who the killer was.
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  Evanster 69 | April 17, 2007
  This is just like marylyn manson being blamed for columbine.This is no different exept it's just another jackass saying it.
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    BASGTA | April 17, 2007
    Wasn't DOOM blamed for Columbine, and Marilyn Manson was blamed for the guy that was burning down houses?
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  Chaos Swordsman | April 21, 2007
  Jack Thompson would blame video games for his own birth if he could find a way to do so.