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No link between Virginia Tech shootings and videogames

August 30, 2007 in News comments 12

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.
mistermostyn via gamersquad.com »
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    Play ISDF Aug 31, 07
    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.
  • 3
    Synergized Aug 31, 07
    Duplicate.

    SynEdit: Don't worry about it, mistermostyn. Happens all the time and I was just pointing it out.
  • 0
    mistermostyn Aug 31, 07
    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 Aug 31, 07
    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.
  • 0
    DragoniteBallZ Aug 31, 07
    Haven't they already established this already like long ago?
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      TurMoiL911 Sep 1, 07
      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.
  • 1
    Dance Floor Killah Aug 31, 07
    Hmph. Anything to get violent video games pulled off shelves. *shakes my head*
  • 1
    Bale Fire* Aug 31, 07
    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 Aug 31, 07
    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 Sep 1, 07
    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 Sep 2, 07
    Wow? Sonic the Hedgehog might have caused a killer in live? I'm really surprised by this discovery.
    • 0
      Riku31069 Sep 6, 07
      Me too. I didn't know that Sonic the Hedgehog actually caused a killer in life.

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