Jack Thompson at it again

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Apparently, last week in Louisiana, Jack Thompson persuaded a sheriff to search the home of a 16-year-old murder suspect. The boy is indicated in the murder of a 55-year-old man. The sheriff seized a number of M-rated games. Allegedly, the victim was beaten by this 16-year-old and a 17-year-old accomplice, then shot in the face.

Thompson concluded that this seemed very similar to scenarios in Grand Theft Auto, and intruded his way into something that doesn't involve him as per usual.

My favorite quote from this is: '"Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you're a hit man or a video gamer," Thompson told the paper. '

I would add, besides hit men or gamers, Amy Fisher, the "Long Island Lolita", or any number of gun-toting criminals throughout the United States and the World at large.

Here are some headlines you can pick up from Google on the subject of "Shot in the face":
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Innocent Man Shot In Face By FBI
By Kimberly A.C. Wilson
Baltimore Sun Staff
3-4-2

An Eagle Scout who was mistaken for a bank robber and shot in the face by an FBI agent in Pasadena on Friday remained in serious but stable condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center last night.

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Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter
Texas lawyer struck in face, chest with birdshot
CNN.com

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DJ Shot In Face In Front Of Son
Police Search For Suspect

POSTED: 6:43 am EST February 8, 2005
UPDATED: 1:50 pm EST February 8, 2005

A nightclub disc jockey in Zellwood, Fla., was shot in the face and killed in front of his 4-year-old son minutes after calling the Orange County Sheriff's Office over a group of men in his yard, according to Local 6 News.

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Man Shot in the Face by Mugger
LAST UPDATE: 6/1/2006 7:35:11 PM
Posted By: Laura Berryhill
WOAI: San Antonio News

A man is now recovering at University Hospital, after he was shot in the chin by a mugger.

Police say the victim was walking down Welhausen, on the east side, overnight. A gunman allegedly approached him and demanded cash.

According to police, the victim was shot when he told the man he did not have any money.

The shooter got away on foot. Police say he may have been picked up by someone in a dark-colored Ford pick-up truck.
 
And, on the other hand, you have immature gamers saying that they themselves would shoot Mr. Thompson in the face, thus living up to his crackpot theories.
 
Hardcore said:
And, on the other hand, you have immature gamers saying that they themselves would shoot Mr. Thompson in the face, thus living up to his crackpot theories.

True, there are those morons out there, Hardcore. However, for the most part, it would all be just a bunch of talk coming from those yahoos. Jack Thompson mistakes correlation with causation.

Whatever those idiots may write or say, it remains clear that the vast majority of gamers are no more violent than other segments of American society...although some are certainly more crass, heh.
 
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scribe999 said:
True, there are those morons out there, Hardcore. However, for the most part, it would all be just a bunch of talk coming from those yahoos. Jack Thompson mistakes correlation with causation.

Whatever those idiots may write or say, it remains clear that the vast majority of gamers are no more violent than other segments of American society...although some are certainly more crass, heh.

Now the spammers are randomly hitting threads. Cute.

The fact that gamers are actually taking Mr. Thompson's bait stands to reason that in the eyes of a society that sees games as just a bunch of bleeps and bloops, it would be easily inferred that we are indeed whoremongering mass murderers.