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GamePolitics on NIU Shooting: What the hell, Jack?

Avalith | February 17, 2008 | News | Misc 
While Kotaku decided to analyze Wacko Jacko's lies about the NIU shooting, GamePolitics decided to take a different approach and ask one simple question to Jack Thompson: The shooter was 27, so why should violent video games have been an issue? Thompson may claim to be only against the selling of M-rated video games to underage consumers, but seriously, what do video games have to do with NIU?

I'm still trying to figure this out myself. If anyone else can figure something decent out besides the obvious anti-Jack Thompson comments, I'm all ears.
With his Friday appearance on Fox News, Miami attorney Jack Thompson has managed to once again introduce the video game violence issue into the aftermath of a tragedy.

In the past, some observers have referred to Thompson’s media tactics as massacre chasing. Frankly, it’s hard to disagree. Beyond that, one has to ask - given that NIU shooter, Stephen Kazmierczak, was 27-years-old - why are video games an issue at all?

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  • 1 thumbs!
    Final Blade | February 18, 2008
    Jesus another one of these, Jack is getting more face time than Hillary Clinton.......
  • 0 thumbs!
    Stitch | February 18, 2008
    Well, I don't care if there is some new info about Jack Posted, But I do like to know what's going on around Jack and his Ridiculouse statements.
    Especially when Jack is a no-brainer who like to blame video games on everything.

    Nah, I really like these kind of articles where people tell him the truth about the real deal, and the ignorant guy he is, he just keeps continueing with his futile attemps.
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    TurMoiL911 | February 18, 2008
    Oh. My. *bleep*ing. God.

    We have a war going on in two other countries, our economy's in the shitter, there's a presidential election going on, and these people think violent video games are important news topics ?
    • 1 thumbs!
      Stitch | February 18, 2008
      Well, since this is GameGrep, I guess anything Videogame news related topics are important in here.
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        TurMoiL911 | February 18, 2008
        I'm not talking about GameGrep, I'm talking about the mainstream media in general.

        Remember the whole Mass Effect thing with Fox ? Shouldn't Fox News have been covering something else, like the war in Iraq, instead of the sex scene in a M-rated video game ?
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          Stitch | February 18, 2008
          I don't have Fox Channel here in The Netherlands, so I wouldn't know anything about that.
          And I think ABC or CNN also were talking about the War in Iraq aswell, so maybe Fox wanted to use something else then the war in Iraq thing.

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