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[iamyourgoldfish]

31 confirmed dead from the shooting this morning at Virginia Tech.

And it only took Jack Thompson 6 hours to go on Fox News and blame it on videogames.

edit: Hey, looks like the Phelps brigade is getting up on this too.

Keep pushing those agendas, guys!

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[iamyourgoldfish]

It's not 'videogame theories' as such. Thompson is pretty clearly insane. "Counterstrike will make you kill your parents" has been his schtick for some time now (see Wikipedia; I first heard of him in the context of A Modest Video Game Proposal". He's been unable to make a living as a lawyer since being disbarred in Florida, so he's been subsisting as a talking head for stories like these. Fox News brought him on because they had some airtime to fill, and because, well, they're Fox News and they like fair and balanced views like his. Not that the shootings had anything to do with videogame violence (the story at this point is that the shooter was motivated by problems with his girlfriend), but it fills time when no new information is coming in, and Thompson's a good Christian Republican. It doesn't exactly surprise me that they're allowing him to push an unrelated agenda, but it certainly is disappointing.

(I'm totally unclear on where you were going with 'political correctness'.)

Congratulations on the job by the way, where are you headed?