No link between Virginia Tech shootings and videogames

mistermostyn | August 30, 2007 | News | XBOX 360

Once again anti-violence videogame activists are made to choke down humble pie following official confirmation that the Virginia Tech gunman had little to no interest in gaming, and certainly wasn't a fan of violent titles.

An official report into the Virginia Tech shootings of April this year has found that perpetrator Seung Hui Cho held little interest in videogames, and no interest whatsoever in violent titles.

Indeed, the only game that Cho is reported to have played is Sonic the Hedgehog; his college roommates even admitted to finding it strange that Cho wasn’t more attracted to games, as many of his fellow students played them.

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Play ISDF | August 31, 2007

NO FREAKIN WAI! I would have NEVER guessed that video games had no relation to a nutcase guy who deserved to be in a mental hospital going on a murderous rampage. Where DO these people work out these genius conclusions!?

Seriously you just had to read Cho's plays to know he was a ticking time bomb.
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xsynergyx | August 31, 2007

Duplicate.

SynEdit: Don't worry about it, mistermostyn. Happens all the time and I was just pointing it out.
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mistermostyn | August 31, 2007

Yep, apologies, xsynergyx. I missed your post. Usually don't slip up like that.

Admin should feel free to delete this post, please.
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Final Blade | August 31, 2007

Well i think its common knowledge that games has nothing to do with rampage of killings, same as movies. You can't have one without the other.
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DragoniteBallZ | August 31, 2007

Haven't they already established this already like long ago?
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  TurMoiL911 | September 01, 2007
  
  Yeah, I remember how Jack Thompson said Seung-Hui Cho practiced for the massacre with Counter-Strike, but was then utterly owned when police never found any signs of video games in his dorm.
  
  GG Jack.
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Dance Floor Killah | August 31, 2007

Hmph. Anything to get violent video games pulled off shelves. *shakes my head*
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Silver Mirror | August 31, 2007

Of course this will never go public, when Jack Thompson talks about videogames influencing people in killings its world wide news, but when its proven wrong its quietly brushed under the mat and shot.

Thats the media for you
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Revenger of Wastelan | August 31, 2007

Like yeah, i dont think someone would be sick enough to go and kill 23 people + himself just because he played too much video games, if at all, and the people that came into those conclusions must be really against video games and takes all the blames on them.
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Final Blade | September 01, 2007

Also whats interesting is there was a law that was passed in Virgina stating no guns allowed by anyone, this was b4 VT shooting. If anything that new law is what caused it. Cause i bet you if the security guards had guns they would have stopped him b4 he even tried to shoot anyone.
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ConkerASkyJockey | September 02, 2007

Wow? Sonic the Hedgehog might have caused a killer in live? I'm really surprised by this discovery.
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  Riku31069 | September 06, 2007
  
  Me too. I didn't know that Sonic the Hedgehog actually caused a killer in life.