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Posted by: TheVisionary 2 years, 8 months agoJack Thompson, as well as anyone else trying to push an agenda in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, should be ashamed of themselves for taking advantage of the national conscious amidst the confusion caused by Monday's tragedy.
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Aidenag
April 20, 2007, 2:27 a.m.There looking for any excuse they can right now. From that Korean Movie "Oldboy", to Grand Theft Auto and Counterstrike.
Yet they dont think to look at a Nation at war, or TV giving These type of school shootings so much attention that the killers become famous...
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KLopez
April 20, 2007, 7:58 a.m.Yeah let's completely ignore the fact that the kid was well documented by the school, faculty, courts as mentally disturbed. It's not like shooting violence didn't occur until video games came around. What about the 1970 University of Texas at Austin massacre?
How do they even know this kid played GTA?
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Amazing1
April 20, 2007, 10:07 a.m.What a jerkwad. Talk about leaping to conclusions without all the evidence. He comes to his decision of what has happened without waiting for the facts. Talked about a mind that is closed!
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2sidestoeverything
April 20, 2007, 10:43 a.m.What about all the kids and adults who play the games and don't go out a kill anyone. This young man was ill, he didn't get the help he needed and 32 people loss there lives and many more will have emotional scars forever. Quit making excuses and lets deal with helping the unstable.
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invest07
April 20, 2007, 12:15 p.m.Questions for you gamers:
1.Is the shooter, Cho, a product of his environment or were his problems all genetic?
2. Are video games addictive or hypnotic? (The successful ones are)
3.Were Don Imus's comments in any way shaped by rap lyrics? Maybe shaped by public acceptance or desensitization?
4.Could it be possible that video games desensitize us to crime and violence?
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mdual
April 20, 2007, 1:34 p.m.Why is it so hard for people to accept that this guy was mentally ill? The mentally ill will never react normally to a movie, a book (Catcher in the Rye) or a video game.
Normal people can play violent video games, watch viloent movies and read controversial books and not have any impulse to kill from it.
This guy was ill from diapers and his family and later teachers and schoolmates knew it but nobody did anything. He had his meltdown - that's all. It's not because of the games or his culture or anything else other than his mind.
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slate
April 20, 2007, 2:58 p.m.Videos don't cause violence just as play acting as solders as a child in the 60's did as some used to warn. You have sick people in the world period. They are demented and they're causes are as various as the sands of a dune. They range from Cho, the Unabomber who found fault in society as a whole, to religious zealots of all faiths, to those that kill or injure in the name of PETA or Green Peace. They're self proclaimed cause is just the catalyst to justify their actions; I'd think many of these people may have seldom ever played video games. The human mind is too complex to lay the blame of such people in on small spot.
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abraham1861
April 20, 2007, 6:38 p.m.I live in richmond virginia and I coudn't believe how many people are buying up virginia tech shirts and hats and stuff like that. It's a crying shame that this school which by all accounts aided in the murder of 30 young people through it's misuse of ineffective policies. As we will see very soon the operators of this school will be liable. I hope people will start to think about those slain and their families instead of the celebration of a school that allowed this to happen.
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abraham1861
April 20, 2007, 9:38 p.m.Yes,it is too bad...it sounds as if you might be one of those blundering idiots on that campus in charge of something you had no business in charge of...or maybe you think those 32 people didn't have any rights to security at school..if so,tell it to those 32 greiving families..
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lvrofwolves
April 20, 2007, 11:07 p.m.Gee I wonder if Sadam played video games? what about Hitler?
Yes people will be looking for all kinds of excuses, or as they like to call it 'reasons' music, movies, video games, guns- do not cause sane people to commit horrific crimes. It's their own warped perception of things.
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peacefinder
April 21, 2007, 12:39 a.m.People- could we please show a little compassion...if a few more had reached out to this poor soul would this tragedy have been averted? Our high schools, families, counselors, teachers, are handicapped because our society does not promote the development of a community . Can we raise our children to care for every person who they have contact with? It is probably not impossible....
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lvrofwolves
April 21, 2007, 9:39 a.m.Nice thought! but there are 100s of 1,000s of poor souls out there, how many have you reached out to? His own family said they just thought he was quiet, reserved. Who knows, maybe he was never bullied or treated badly by others, could be he just had a warped perception, maybe a persecution comlex.Even if one person reached out and really truly tried to make friends with him, do you think that person could have saved him? I'd say most likely not.
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abraham1861
April 21, 2007, 8:40 p.m.If the country clamped down and did what ever we could to stop things like this from happening again it would probably undermine our freedoms that make this country what it is...we live in an open society and thats what america is all about,,,unfortunately murder even on a grand scale such as this is the price we pay...sometimes it makes you wonder if it's all worth it...
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