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Videogames implicated in another fatal shooting

mistermostyn | December 24, 2007 | News | Misc 
With selective journalism continuing to cast videogames in a poor light, the Indianapolis Star has ran a story implementing videogames in a squabble that left two men dead.
An Indianapolis newspaper has added to the recent trend of holding videogames responsible for random acts of violence by running a supposedly videogame-related story that ended in the death of two young men.
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  • 1 thumbs!
    Donnelly | December 24, 2007
    Sorry, video games involved in shooting?

    I didn't know a copy of San Andreas was a suspect
  • 3 thumbs!
    slumpy monkey | December 24, 2007
    Maby people should stop being so naive and stupid and not point the finger with no hard eveidence.
  • 2 thumbs!
    Avalith | December 24, 2007
    Journalists will say anything to scare people into doing what they want them to do. Just don't pay any attention to them and move on. Reporting about their false statements in gaming publications of any sort (eg. IGN magazine, GameGrep) is just giving them the attention they want. If they want to make themselves look like misinformed idiots, let them, but comments such as what was posted before me only worsens the problem.

    Cue generic Jack Thompson reply:
  • 7 thumbs!
    Bri | December 24, 2007
    We hear the same story over and over, video games blamed for a shooting. Could we maybe look at the fact that two YOUNG men could even obtain firearms?
  • 3 thumbs!
    MikeyW | December 24, 2007
    This is ridiculous. When will this bullshit end.
    • 1 thumbs!
      Guugley | December 24, 2007
      It probably wont. There's bound to be some people who believe it's encouraging violence and there's bound to be somebody who actually does get ideas from games. Not everybody's got their screws in properly, top put it one way.
  • 3 thumbs!
    BANDITO ATTACK | December 25, 2007
    sometimes i wonder what video games hitler, david berkowits, ed gein, and charles whitman were playing back in the day.

    i mean, it's not like theres any natural born killers.
  • 1 thumbs!
    Silver Mirror | December 25, 2007
    If videogames don't stop being blamed I'm going to cause a fatal shooting. Preferably on Jack Thompson

    Seriously though this is just annoying
  • 2 thumbs!
    Dance Floor Killah | December 25, 2007
    Pong made me go out and blow puppies up with rockets. :'(

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