Alright, listen.
I’m not saying that violent videogames don’t affect the violent tendancies of some predilect kids. But this immediate blame of violent games on any form of school violence has got to stop. Dr. Phil and Jack Thompson started pointing fingers at the videogame industry on the Virginia Tech shootings before the media even knew the killer’s name, let alone how he lived or what influenced his behaviors. Now it appears to be coming out that there was no evidence that this kid had ever owned a videogame, less “training” on them as Mr. Thompson seems to think all school shooters do. I understand that people want to place blame on external influences when crazies do messed up things like kill students, but it behooves us as thinking, rational people to get some information on things before we start throwing whodunit’s around.