if more people smoked it legally, people wouldn’t take life so seriously and give into inner turmoil and all the invented stress our society heaps on us.

he was prolly cal-o anyway and got rick rolledddddd 24/7 BRO

If anything games stop violence, they help fuel the rage someone might have, by taking it out on a virtual person.

If video games made an impact on peoples lives, then how come people who play surgery games, dont become surgeons?

Blame yourselves for these thing, not the innocent bystanders..

I wish he would stop preying on people in a state of panic or mourning. Gives the term ambulance chaser a bad name. He’s taken it to the next level. He should be called a hearse chaser. Shame on you wacko.

February 16, 2008

John G. Peters, President
Northern Illinois University
1425 W. Lincoln Hwy.
DeKalb, IL 60115-2825 Via Fax to 815-753-8686

Re: Part of the Explanation for this Awful Disaster

Dear President Peters:

First of all, my condolences for this terrible loss. I have had the disturbing privilege of representing a number of families devastated by these types of incidents. I represented all six parents of the three girls killed by a 14-year-old video gamer in the Paducah, Kentucky, school massacre. I currently represent the families of three policemen in Alabama who were slain by a teen who trained to kill them on the cop-killing simulation video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. This case was featured on 60 Minutes. See
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/04/60minutes/main678261.shtml.

The day after the NIU tragedy this week, I was on the Fox News Channel predicting that the killer on your campus would be someone who was immersed in violent video games, as this is a common thread in almost all of these incidents. I mentioned in the interview the mass murder simulation game, Counter-Strike. It was the game of choice by the killers in the two worst school shootings in history—Virginia Tech and Erfurt, Germany.

Sure enough, the New York Post reports today the accuracy of that prediction. I attach herewith the Post article.

Governor Blagojevich was on Fox hours later echoing my specific concern about the linkage between violent video games and school killings.

I have addressed roughly 200 college campuses about this problem. I am more than willing to come to your campus, free of charge of course, to explain to the students and faculty and surrounding community why these games, played by students, pose a public safety hazard. Brain scan science recently coming out of Harvard explains it well. There are multiple reasons why these evil events happen. Immersion of young males in murder simulation as a form of entertainment is one of the more powerful reasons.

Blessings, Jack Thompson

So then all these people who made it wildly popular are going to go on a shooting rampage then ? I’d better load up my hunting rifle and prepare to defend my loved ones.

p.s. don’t they mean widely and not wildly ? Some credible newspaper that is.

Amen!