Apparently, the 25 year old man that went on a shooting spree in a Montreal College this week played 'Postal' and 'Super Columbine Massacre RPG' and that is why one person is dead and nineteen other were wounded.
Do you think they will EVER stop trying to blame games? Of course it had nothing to do with the fact that maybe, just maybe, he wasn't right in the head?
It's a tragic event and one that will scar a lot of the people in and around the area for the rest of their lives so it's only right that Jack Thompson should jump in and start declaring that he is 'right again'... good one Jack... way to go in the sensitivity stakes!
I'm still not sure exactly what Jack gets out of trying to bad-mouth computer games all the time. According to him they are 'violent virtual reality murder simulators' that TRAIN people to kill.
Um...
Nope...
Struggling slightly with this concept...
I've played computer games (violent and otherwise) for the last twenty-odd years; I've watched violent films; I listen to heavy metal all the time; I'm even IN a heavy metal band... and yet I don't feel any urges to start killing people.
Maybe it's me... maybe there's something wrong with me... maybe I SHOULD be feeling these urges...
Or maybe he's talking a load of bull
His latest target is Take-Two Software's 'Bully' which get's released mid-October. He is quoted as saying that it is 'in every sense is Columbine simulator'. Yeah... I can see the similarities... two teens, armed to the teeth with an assortment of weapons and looking to blow up their school before 'checking out' is just like being bullied (or being the bully) at school. The funny thing is... the ESRB rated the game T for Teen! Score one for the ESRB.
One thing I think Jack has really missed out is the fact that if we were all trained killers... surely one of us would have had the decency to take him out first?
Now if you'll excuse me... I've got to go catch a plane to Florida to see a lawyer about a gun...
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