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Hitman Made Me Do It!

Avalith | April 11, 2008 | News | Misc 
Yet another disturbed mind is on trial for murder. What's so big about that that it's covered here at GameGrep? Like Andew Lackey, J.P. Orlewicz is blaming video games, or more specifically, Hitman, for his dastardly deed. People these days seem to be quick to jump on the "blame something rather than accept defeat" bandwagon, but why does the target always seem to be video games in these types of situations?

People really need to start taking responsibility for their actions...
We’ve heard some testimony today that’s very interesting… Before the killing took place… J.P. Orlewicz, the defendant, used to say, ” I want to commit a crime… and not get caught and be able to get away with it… So now we see the mindset of a young man that is fixated on doing harm, according to the prosecution witnesses. Fixated on committing a crime… Because you wonder how something like this can happen…

How did the defense deal with that? They dealt with it with a video game called Hitman that he used to watch, and it was a video game where you got impressions that you would kill somebody, hit them from their back side where they were not aware that they were being killed. And, so the defense is probably going to focus on that there was not a true intent to commit a crime, just a fixation with this video game.

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    tidus04 | April 11, 2008
    What a *bleep*ing con, they really do need to take responsibility for themselves. Shame it just doesn't happen these days
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    slumpy monkey | April 11, 2008
    And the worse part is that people actually buy these morons lies.
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    blackfalcon | April 11, 2008
    Everyone's blaming video games these days. You'd think people would see a pattern emerging.
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    neto_360 | April 11, 2008
    Video games just seem to be a scapegoat for these people. Though, if it really was the game that caused them to something stupid, they were messed up to begin with.
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    Final Blade | April 11, 2008
    LMAO, What a loser. People never learn....
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    Jak66 | April 11, 2008
    Why are people so damn stupid? It can't be a video games fault that you do stupid stuff, it's not like they hypnotize you to go kill someone. This is just sad.
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    Storm | April 12, 2008
    Tom Jack (<3 Vito xD)...I mean Jack Thompson will probably catch a break with news like this.

    This reminds me of a kid in NYC a few years ago when the Matrix sequel came out. He dressed in a black leather outfit, raided his uncle's gun collection, and walked around on the streets. Needless to say, he gained attention.
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    Rusty Bucket Boy | 29 days 4 hours ago
    This really pisses me off. His parents are probably glad that he blamed the video game instead of them, who are likely the actual problem.

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