Jack Thompson... Again.

[comet5002]

I, for one, think ol' Jacko is right. Every time I kill a zombie in Left 4 Dead or Resident Evil 5, it motivates me to go out into the real world and kill zombies there too.

Or, he just gets off on this sorta thing. That could work too.

 

[jockslap]

Murder simulators eh? Maybe this colossal dick will be happy when people cant simulate murder and actually go out and kill. What a ****. Also his name isnt even Jack Thompson, hes a born again christian >_>

[EDIT] the man is one big fail, he has never succeeded in his seemingly endless battle with "tyranny?" I bet his mother is proud. You know, the one who gave him a name that apparently just wasn't good enough for the asshat.

 

[jockslap]

"Recently a German teenager methodically authored a massacre at his school, and like the perpetrator of a nearly identical earlier massacre in Erfurt, Germany, he trained on Mature-rated video games to both incite and train for this mass killing."

Trained on mature-rated video games.
I don't even need to comment on it.
Just let that sink in.

Ho hum... they haven't made contant lenses that offer a HUD complete with aiming recticle, health and kill counter have they?

well now that youve had the idea...

 

[Fortesque]

How could Doom train anyone to kill?
hmm... i suppose it could train you to kill Cyberdemons and zombies... it could also train you to never reload.

And if im 30000+ kills into Zombie Genocidist achievement in Left 4 Dead, does that mean i have to kill 30000 people in real life? If so i will have to move, only 5000 people live where i do

 

[Roamin11]

Gaze into the face of evil.

Spoiler: Warning, Evil

GAH IT BURNS!!!! I thought I could handdle it but aperntly not!!!

On topic, combine was done by boys who wanted the publicity, they made plans in there sheds not on Doom, so should sheds be banned?

 

[Meado]

Quite frankly, I'm suprised he hasn't squeezed racism into the mix since RE5 was released. The guy's a douche, simple as.

 

[samsprinkle]

That's so stupid. I'd like to get a "murder simulator" with jack thompson as the antagonist...oh wait! they have that game! it's called "Attack of the Yockel Teeth Two"

 

[xadd2u]

First, I was under the impression that Jack had been disbarred, and now needed to have someone else take his cases to court for him because they were sick of his nonsense. That may have only been in one state though.

Second: The easiest way to train for such a plan would be to watch the news after one of these shootings. Every news station will have specials on:
A)What was done and how, to include how the guns were obtained and brought into the school.
B)How emergency services could have responded better and will change to face similar challenges in the future should the need arise.
C)Special coverage for the grieving of the families, the confusion of the survivors, and the trials of the shooters, proving once and for all that this act will get you noticed.

You can get all of this by watching public news broadcasts. furthermore, you cannot learn how to fire a weapon with any reasonable degree of accuracy from any game. If the reverse was true the armed forces would use this as opposed to live-fire training, as the game would be much cheaper to obtain and maintain than replacing thousands of rounds of ammo and paying for weapons matinence. At absolute worst, it can desensitize us to violence, but any violent media does so and no other media falls under such harsh scrutiny.

Last point: Correlation does not imply causation. Of course these kids played violent games, they were violent people.I'm curious as to whether or not there's a correlation between number of violent games sold and crime rates. I'd almost be willing to bet that it'd be negative, on account of criminals staying in to beat the last level of COD4 or somesuch.

Undeed addresses the situation well here. There are obviously so many different ways beside video games that kids can be led to do things that Jack might as well fight to ban every form of entertainment in existence. The thing is that most of the kids who do these things are messed up in the first place and aren't actually being 'led' into anything by exposure to entertainment media.

Also the point about the extreme difference between using a video game controller to fire a gun and actually shooting a gun is one that I have brought up for years because it makes too much sense. I can shoot every person on a city block with a handgun in GTA IV in a matter of seconds (headshots); yet give me a real handgun and ask me to shoot someone in the head from a few yards away and I guarantee I would miss. If anyone wants to train to be a marksman, video games are not the way to go about it.

 

[NiceGurl_14]

I thought that we had already established that Mr. Thompson was public enemy #1 for gamers.

 

[Epic_Rocker]

Wow. This guy is a massive prick. Like a complete and total, completely massive dickhead. xD Why even bother with this crap?

 

[DaemonOfHavok]

A permanent ban on ALL violent games would be an impossibility. And if it were to occur in some freaky, hellish, Thompsonized alternate dimension, I'm pretty sure riots would break out among gamers across the country. :/ And they would all march to his doorstep...

 

[sky14kemea]

the first time i heard of jack thompson, i thought he was just a parody XD

then i found out he was real, and really nuts
banning violence would probably cause violence from protesters, maybe someone should warn him

 

[pieeater911]

The guy is like the killer in any slasher movie. He won't stay dead!

 

[Altorin]

Quite frankly, I'm suprised he hasn't squeezed racism into the mix since RE5 was released. The guy's a douche, simple as.

he doesn't because he's so white you get a sunburn standing next to him in the summer.

 

[SuperGoomba64]

Hmm, maybe instead all killers should play DOOM, then they wouldn't know how to aim up or down.

Seriously though, it's like trying to erase porn and drugs from the Earth...now matter how much you try to make it go away, it just doesn't happen...

Yup, ole' Jack's just-a wasting his time...and everyone elses...

Eh, I'm going back to play my genocide simulator.

Spoiler

A race massacre classic!

 

[Simriel]

*sigh* how happy i am not to live in America.

 

[Doug]

He's written a letter to the president, who's kids are gamers, and hence he (Obama) probably knows its bullshit? Yeah, that'll work.

 

[Doug]

Quite frankly, I'm suprised he hasn't squeezed racism into the mix since RE5 was released. The guy's a douche, simple as.

he doesn't because he's so white you get a sunburn standing next to him in the summer.

That and he's probably thinks all black people are rap gangsters about to blow your knee caps off for looking at them funny.

 

[asinann]

Can Jack Thompson even legally do this anymore?
He got his license taken away didn't he?

You mean can he legally write a letter, address it to the president, put a stamp on it and drop in a mailbox?

The only thing he can't do is legally represent other people.

 

[Amarok]

Personally I think Jack Thompson is totally totally right. I played Grand Theft Auto once, and immediately rushed outside to steal a car and drive it a hundred miles an hour down the pavement, crushing as many pensioners and elvish impersonators as I could.

Oh wait, no I didn't.