Jack Thompson Blames Gaming For Connecticut School Shooting

Fuck you Jack Thompson. I bet he wants to be shot to become a martyr. Video Games are not the cause of violence, How we treat and interact with each other is the cause of violence.

Haven't heard from Jackie boy in a while.

Why report this then? The best way to **** him over is to not give him any screentime what so ever.

Nothing more than a simpleton who is afraid of what he doesn't understand.

You don't pass law school if you're an idiot. No, I think he's just an ******* who may have found his way of being "relevant" and getting attention. Delusional? Definitely. A simpleton? Probably not. Either that, or American society as a whole is to blame for his dickishness.

As for not understanding videogames, I think he definitely does, and also sees how they can be exploited. Thankfully, though, he's already been disbarred.

There is no logic. That is like blaming NIKE because the shooter was wearing shoes.

Fuck Jacky Thompson and the people who think like him. Reading comments about the story posted on other sites , I came across multiple comments like, "I have to wonder if this guy was a gamer. Some people become immune to the violence these violent games portray," and "...he may have been a gamer because we know he was immune to the violence of using guns."

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!! They need to get off Jacky Boys coattails and get informed. What ever happaned to just being a ****ing psychopath?!?!

Don't even give this fool the light of day. They live off the misery of others for their own selfish interests.

I've said it before, he's just a vulture preying on the tragedy. Best we could do is ignore him and give our hearts out to the people who are affected by this tragedy.

Gotta wonder if he remembers to wipe the blood off his ankles before running his mouth. Violent crime rates are the lowest in the nation's history. The 'Assault weapons' ban has been out of (federal) effect for nearly ten years. Gun laws are growing more and more lax than they've been at nearly any time in the nation's history since the passage of the Sullivan Act. The nation is in a recession. Violent video games are more violent and more prevalent than ever before. None of the standby comfort answers with quick policy proposals in tow have any purchase on the reality of the situation.

Jacky's still getting his kicks and GTA 5 isn't out yet? I do remember reading some pretty witty responses from here in the OG San Andreas days to that douche bag.

I honestly think there's something wrong with this dude, mentally. He is on such a single-minded and driven quest for something that is silly when you look at the big picture, that it cost him his job. And now that he is a quantifiable failure, he's still babbling away about it. He's like the comic book villian who's planning their next big scheme after they get thrown into the asylum.

In a country where many people think its perfectly okay for civilians to have semi automatic rifles... yeah its somehow video games fault. How quickly some idiots use this media attention to blame everything but the perpetrator of the crime. I blame proctologists for Jack Thompson then, obviously theyve failed to remove his head from his ass. How many innocent lives have been lost as some jackass with a horrific idea gets their hands on weapons legally that fire dozens of rounds per second? Yeah, the bloods on the electronic video game industry, or film, or music... what a douchebag.

The argument extends to guns in the same way it does video games. Blaming the tools used to commit an act is pure hogwash. The deed, and all of its moral significance, are carried in people. One does not plot revenge against thunderstorms, volcanoes or speak of punishing wild animals. Likewise tools. They do not possess agency. They have no will. To be in any way involved in harm a person must first put them to use. They must utilize agency to assign a task to the tool and direct it to an act. At no point can a firearm, no matter how potentially deadly in skilled hands, intervene. Given that overall violent crime is lower now than any other time in the nation's history, in spite of the standard diagnoses from self-appointed prophets of the new criminological wisdom (case in point, our Jackie T., formerly of the Florida state bar) none of their pet causal factors point towards it.

Focusing on these shootings, which are at root of a similar to Black swan events, is an attempt to use high profile events to mask larger trends to stir up outrage and motivate action towards a desired political goal. Violent crime peaked in the mid 1980s and then started to decline and none of the major pushes on policy seemed to alter that trend. Violent video games weren't a cultural force when the trend started but they did become one and the trend continued. Gun control measures came and went. 'Shall issue' has become increasingly the norm and doom-and-gloom predictions preceding its adoptions have fallen flat. Focusing on that issue for the moment - notice how desperate gun ban advocates have become: they move from tragedy to tragedy (they must be short of towels for all their blood dancing) in a gambit to stay relevant in a country where their ideology and program are not relevant and have no validity. Likewise Thompson. His lack of standing reduces him to this.

To quote the great Eddie Izzard: "Guns don't kill people, people do. But the gun helps!"

Yup. And pointing that out is all it takes to expose the people who try to divorce the gun from the gun violence as the fools they are. I've actually seen one such fool claim that the Connecticut shooter could have done the same thing with *dental floss*. Yeah, that tool would have been able to strangle 28 people to death with dental floss garrotes as easily as he shot them down. Hello, reality calling. Even knife wielding maniacs can't kill as fast and easily, and there is very recent evidence that proves this.

The reality is, there's a reason why all these disasters are caused by gun violence: guns are the single most efficient tool for murder in existence. And the solution is simple. We must reduce the number of guns, and make it harder for people to get and use them.

It is *NOT RIGHT* that we should have to accept the murder of 20 kindergarteners as the price for people to be able to cling to their penis-extenders.

Way to keep it classy, Jack.

Anyone notice Jacks typo? lol momentus doesn't start with a vowel... pfffttt silly old man...

And then i have a typo... what a fail on my part...

JACK THOMPSON

Chasing Hearses and Ambulances, even after losing his license to.

VIDEO GAMES did something even the MILITARY couldn't.

They programmed an entire generation (or 3) of kids to #1 be able to recognize weapons (and calibers), #2 be able to identify threats, #3 juggle multiple forms of information and make instant decisions - among others.

Video game violence programs kids to use violent methods and to THINK about violence more often. Have you seen kids that point their fingers like guns like they are playing CoD? I have. It's scary because they have no responsibility or discipline. Coupled with mental illness - there is no safeguard to keep kids from turning into shooters.

That's probably NOT what happened here, and video games aren't SOLELY to blame - Television and audio media is pretty bad too.

Thing is, this country is going to be arguing about gun control for a long time since half the country wants to protect their 2nd amendment.

I am a REGISTERED REPUBLICAN, GUN OWNER and I appreciate the 2nd amendment as a way to protect my 1st

my silly friend,,,,,,, the answer seems obvious to me,, supply and demand as they say, no?
C'est ca

After reading your comment I have only one request. Please stop voting.

As Ronald Reagan famously said (whether you like Reagan or not does not matter so don't even begin to bash him and waste your time) "We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions" It is not video games fault for what transpired in Newton. Where were the parents at? Why did they divorce? What was the mother like towards her son? What was wrong with the son that they did not believe to seek help for him as morally justified parents? @bigtruck

and you hit the nail on the head, KevinS. Good look.

Gotta always find something/someone to blame, other than the individual and their warped mindset...

Jack Thompson...There's nothing I can say that hasn't already been said about that fanatic.

As a gun owner, the recent flood of anti-gun media is scary. I refuse to participate in panic buying, but current 2nd amendment discourse in this country definitely encourages the behavior.

People who think gun control is the answer have apparently never studied the history of ANY form of prohibition in this country.

Also, replace the word "gun" in my above comment with "violent video games" and it's the same damn thing.

Yeah. I'm glad I bought my G3 a couple of months ago. I'm only scared about this because it seems like a conversation is being had between two groups of people: one who only cares about re-election, and the other who doesn't own a firearm.

The Connecticut shooter didn't use video games to murder 20 kindergarten kids, he used a semi-automatic assault rifle. So no, it's not the same. Guns need to be registered, and gun users need to be properly licensed and trained. And we need a serious system to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally unstable.

Anybody who, at this point, refuses to accept the necessity of the *WELL-REGULATED* clause of the 2nd Amendment is an enabler of the violence that killed 20 children 2 days ago.

This can easily become an argument, so I'm going to say this last piece and be done with it.

The fact that you said "semi-automatic assault rifle" shows your lack of understanding when it comes to firearms. You think gun laws need to change, I understand that, but damn near anything can be a weapon. The same day the Connecticut shooting happened, a man went berserk in China with a knife. At what point do you, suggesting more regulation as opposed to personal accountability, want regulation to end? Do we need to put you, I, and the rest of this country into a registry because we have potentially lethal cutlery in our kitchens?

Get real.

Linguistic mutation. Well regulated meant well-equipped and ready to fight. The rifles fur trappers and frontiersmen carried back then were actually considerably more lethal than the standard issue military weapons.

People and news need to stop giving this killer Adam a legacy for someone else down the road to better. Have any of you even read a single story on any of the victims? Do any of you know their names? Even one? No? It isn't our fault here for this... i'm just trying to make a point as to how much the media wants to gobble this up and use it for ratings. All this is doing now by being on the big 2 is simply digging into Adam's past and motives etc. Leave that for the police. The media should be instead letting the vigils air on TV and not having these chooch reporters and anchors beat this horse until it despawns.

There is an upside to digging into this fvcker's past. It decreases the media's ability to villainize guns and helps show that this was a dude with psycho-social issues.

I agree though that we shouldn't give murderers undeserved attention.

I'd like to know why people thumbs down and not actually articulate an opinion. Too much to ask I suppose. Good look on your reply though, elmore. But how exactly can you tell me that it DECREASED the media's ability to villainize guns when that is EXACTLY what the hot button issue is now. Gun control. Every single one of the mass murders have had psycho-social issues. I'm sorry but I just don't see your point.

I say it takes some of the wind out of their sails because a rational mind will say, "Oh! This guy didn't do what he did because he had access to guns. He did what he did because he was crazy."

I know that's not what's going to happen, because it's much easier (and better for ratings) to blame the gun, not the guy. Most people jump on the gun control wagon because it's much more realistic to get results by limiting access to weapons, as opposed to trying to solve a mental health issue.

I agree with that statement. It is much easier to take the gun route than to look at mental diseases and unfortunately due to the media and many politicians and young "political" gun nuts, it won't happen.

Whether you like it or not, gun violence is intimately connected to this issue. To ignore that is to refuse to face reality. It is perfectly legitimate to point out that, without easy access to guns, this guy would not have been able to murder those 20 children.

People and news need to stop giving this killer Adam a legacy for someone else down the road to better. Have any of you even read a single story on any of the victims? Do any of you know their names? Even one? No? It isn't our fault here for this... i'm just trying to make a point as to how much the media wants to gobble this up and use it for ratings. All this is doing now by being on the big 2 is simply digging into Adam's past and motives etc. Leave that for the police. The media should be instead letting the vigils air on TV and not having these chooch reporters and anchors beat this horse until it despawns.

Saw over 400. Came here to see people flooding out Jonathan's voice again.

GUN CONTROL does not keep guns out of the hands of CRIMINALS.
GUN CONTROL keeps guns out of the hands of Law abiding CITIZENS.

The first Gun control laws were racist and designed to keep guns out of the hands of freed slaves. Perhaps there'd have been fewer lynching victims if the lynchees were carrying guns.

In fact, I say there'd be fewer rapes in 3rd world countries if we ARMED THE WOMEN.

A Bullet pretty much takes the situation from rape to not-rape instantly.

Do you have any idea how radical that sounds? You can't ask what ifs about history because it doesn't lead to a stimulating discussion. History is history and it cannot be changed. So no, you can't say perhaps there'd have been fewer lynching victims because you have absolutely no idea.

Fewer rapes in 3rd world countries if you armed the women? How would that work? Do you know anything about Latin American history? Go take a long look at El Mozote. Not everyone carries guns on their person. If you aren't at the time of the confrontation then said gun has no effect and if you even hesitate then that gun will be used against you.

You want to arm America but nowhere in your little rant here and before did you have any mention of training said persons carrying guns, issuing permits and having them take classes to use these weapons effectively and in a smart way.

A bullet pretty much takes the situation from rape to murder instantly.

NO...killing people who attempt to harm/kill me is SELF DEFENSE. I don't give a **** about the court or anything some ******* liberal has to say.

YOU F WITH ME, YOU GET A BULLET.

Do you have any comprehension of how stupid you sound? You don't even sound like a conservative. You sound like a moron who believes he can be above the law. I bet you think liberals were always the way they are today too, right? And that conservatives were as well?

I'm "effing" with you. Is that making you want to come give me a bullet? By your logic it should. Haha. You sound ludicrous. Go home, you're drunk.

P.S. I am VERY glad to see that fellow conservatives like yourself are as brilliant as ever.

Before I have to sit through your half cocked and half drunk response. Just ignore it. Log out and go shoot some squirrels and practice for the apocalypse. Just remember to turn the safety off.

#1 PEOPLE WITHOUT GUNS WILL BE AT THE MERCY OF PEOPLE WITH GUNS.

#2 GUNS don't kill people. PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE.

#3 Studies show communities with concealed carry laws have LESS gun crime than communities without it. That's because CRIMINALS prey on people THEY KNOW ARE UNARMED.

School kids, church goers, titty bar patrons, etc.

#1 PEOPLE WITHOUT GUNS WILL BE AT THE MERCY OF PEOPLE WITH GUNS.

#2 GUNS don't kill people. PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE.

#3 Studies show communities with concealed carry laws have LESS gun crime than communities without it. That's because CRIMINALS prey on people THEY KNOW ARE UNARMED.

School kids, church goers, titty bar patrons, etc.

I'm pretty sure this person is a troll or just plain crazy but this statement,

"The first Gun control laws were racist and designed to keep guns out of the hands of freed slaves. Perhaps there'd have been fewer lynching victims if the lynchees were carrying guns." is incontrovertibly true. The slave codes and later black codes were designed to prohibit slaves and later freed blacks from owning firearms as a way of ensuring their passivity and inability to resist terror at the hands of the Klan. The Sullivan Act was designed with similar goals in mind (Sullivan's biggest supporters were criminals who preferred not to face armed victims) and against the same group of victims. One postwar activity the NRA engaged in was helping Southern blacks organize chapters that they could obtain weapons to defend their homes against a group of terrorists whom the postwar government at best turned a blind to and at worst outright sponsored.

YES, I AM A TROLL, but a well read TROLL.



"Racist arms laws predate the establishment of the United States. Starting in 1751, the French Black Code required Louisiana colonists to stop any blacks, and if necessary, beat "any black carrying any potential weapon, such as a cane." If a black refused to stop on demand, and was on horseback, the colonist was authorized to "shoot to kill.""

Thank you Oblivion. Finally. n he isn't even a good troll... it's just sad. Anyone can go to google and quote something from wiki.... sigh. I am not FOR gun control, but I am for the education of their users. People like trucker shouldn't be allowed to even look at a gun. If he was your neighbor going on rants like that would you be comfortable with your kids running around near his front yard? He's nuts and he's sad.

italion,

besides the fact I probably make 3 times the salary you do (considering my occupation), I am a LICENSED gun owner with NO CRIMINAL HISTORY WHATSOEVER. 31 years old and no record.

I honestly don't care what you think. Cry about it.

3x the amount I make... Ohhh ma gawd! You must be so smart and educated!!!(or like you said a troll... perhaps a liar? ) I couldn't tell from how you were talking. Being a 31 year old "troll" isn't something to be proud of. It's actually relatively sad that you still at the ripe age of 31 when most people have matured to the point where they find things like trolling childish you are still going strong. But it's okay, if you're still clammering for attention like that at your age maybe your mother should turn the basement electric off and have you move out of her house. LOL. Judging by how you've changed your typing ability you must have gotten a bit annoyed. I guess I got to you a tad more than you thought big man.

Whatever moron. You can talk all the bullsht you want, cause when it comes down to it, not only aM i out-performing you, you're a mindless liberal who doesn't think or respect the constitution.

Actually, gun control *does* keep guns out of the hands of criminals. It's no coincidence that the states in the US with the tightest gun laws have the lowest rates of gun violence. And more guns in the hands of third-world women would result in lots of dead women, because violent men would take their own guns away and turn them around on their former owners. That's how reality works.

What really happens in armed homes is, if there's a burglary or other type of invasion, the guy coming in finds your gun and either steals it or shoots you with it. You're not safer with your guns, you're just more likely to die. And so are innocent bystanders around you.

That fellow in Connecticut armed himself by stealing his guns from his mom's house. He went in, took her weapons, killed her with them, then killed 20 kindergarten kids and 8 other people. And it's crap like yours that creates that reality. By peddling your macho Bullshit fantasies about how "safe" guns make you, you enable murder.

You're right, it's no coincidence, because it's not true. For the love of espresso would you please stop making things up and trying to turn this into a cheap back-and-forth over standard issue CSGV talking points? ,Talking points which I might add, were discredited long before CSGV propagandists started using them? I'll take this one particular lie of yours on because it's egregiously false.

Four areas in which private possession of firearms are heavily constricted by local and state ordinance - Camden, Detroit, Chicago and DC - are among the most violent areas in the country. To outdo DC most years you would have to look elsewhere in especially bad places like Colombia (hands down world record holder for highest per capita homicides for a LONG time) and Jamaica.

A wise man once said, "I'm pretty sure violence, shootings, and unstable minds have been around since before the release of Pong."

Jack needs to remember that there are troubled people out there, and banning video games will not prevent it, or decrease it in any possible way. His has constantly argued that violent games have been proven to be linked to violent behavior, but he makes that argument as if he thinks anyone who plays these games will try to mimic it in real life. Yet I bet if you asked him if he would become violent if he played Counter Strike, he would respond by saying no, he wouldn't let the game manipulate him, because he knows better.

Yes Jack, because nobody else knows better. Nobody in this world is as smart as Jack Thompson. We're all stupid enough to get manipulated by violence in games, but you are not. Am I right Jacky?

THE POLICE CAN'T PROTECT ME.

the Police are AFTER-THE-FACT-EVIDENCE GATHERERS.

Every sentient being has a RIGHT to protect themselves. When criminals had swords, people had the right to carry swords. When criminals have guns, the only protection is a gun.

I DON'T DIAL 911.

youtube.com/watch?v=p_IjFXp0zQc&list=PLABD89CC48​9E3FAF5&feature=mh_lolz

So a criminal gets the drop on you. You go for your gun and get shot. Good show, that gun really protected you.

Oh, and by the way. *SWORDS*? You've been playing too much D&D. It was never legal for ordinary folks to just carry swords around, in any part of the world.

Someone obviously doesn't know ANYTHING about history.

That's a lie. It was legal in ancient Rome, among many other places.

Only stupid people will link violent video games to a shooting by a ****ing psychopath. These ****ers should keep their mouth shut if they can't do anything else other than blame video games. and as for violent games being connected with violent behavior i should like to remind them that there are violent novels and violent films too, some of them more violent than any game i've ever played. Banning video games is not the solution. THE solution is to there is a proper background check before giving anyone a gun lisence and to make sure they dont fall in wrong hands.

Anyone DUMB ENOUGH to actually think video game violence, TV violence and violence in music insn't having any effect on kids at all IS A F KING MORON and KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT NEUROPSYCHOLOGY.

What happen to the parents being responsible for properly raising the children. Oh so they turn out bad and grow up with mental and emotional issues and we point fingers at everything. It's gun control. It's video games. It's bad Parenting. Its the media. The sooner we all work together as a big national family and begin to look after each other, care for strangers, work towards ways to prevent mental illness instead of temporary solution medications that are so freely given to people of all ages including children. There are better answers to this mess than pointing fingers. Video games will not go away they are part of this era and generation. The fact that some people can't differentiate reality from the gaming world is a pyschological flaw in the person not in the part of the video game.

Oh man, all those games that simulate shooting up children are surely the culprit!

Personally I would not give these kind of people any face time on your site. We all know they are out there, no need to fuel their fire.

People have been killing one anouther since the dawn of civilisation. If there were no guns then people would knife people, if there were no knives then people would use sticks and stones, all the way down to bare knuckles if it came to it. The availability of weapons nowdays does have a part to play as it just makes it easier to kill people but with that said, it's the people that are to blame at the end of the day.

Blaming a film, game or music is bizzare and just a easy way out for this completely misguided fool. I've played violent games since i was 15 years old starting with Resident Evil in 1996 all the way through to the new Call of Duty (prestige 4 atm) and not once have i thought about picking up a AN94 or a MTAR and blowing the **** outta real people - thats just insanity.

If a indiviual is mentally ill they should be diagnosed and treated or sectioned by the authorities, i mean how hard is it to spot a psycho? The mother and father must've had some idea living with him!

Oh and whilst reading todays newspaper i found a little article about a Chinese man that went berserk in a school killing 23 people yesterday...with a KNIFE. You can't hide every gun or every knife from mad people, but you can hide mad people away from weapons!

When are the parents gonna take some god damn responsibility for their children? Why does it always have to go back to games? If video games were really that bad there would be Billions more shootings going on. I do believe that this incident is regrettable and I pray for the families who lost their children but don't use video games as a scape goat for the real reason this happened.

Blaming games or guns is easy. It allows for a simplistic solution. Ban violent video games or at least make it illegal for children to buy them. Ban guns or at least make it illegal for anyone but those with special permission slips to obtain them. Neither one helps. These events are rare. The majority are committed with legally owned guns. That overlooks a far more important problem: most homicides with guns aren't spree killings and aren't committed with legally owned guns. Measures such as reinstating the '94 ban would not only fail to prevent these events in the future but would also fail to address the far more important problems of illegal weapons smuggling and the actual nature of firearms-related homicide. In both cases, ban-happy types are quick to recite misleading or irrelevant statistics. To get the game issue over and done quick: Videogames as incitement to violence has about as much credibility and predictive power as marijuana as gateway drug.

Jack Thompson needs to understand that it's not the video game's fault, it's the specific individual who played the game. Videogame-inspired murderers are always of unsound mind and lack self-control. Jack Thompson should just move on to another, more worthy cause. Such as activism against juvenile dating(which is something I plan on doing myself).

Jack Thompson needs to understand that it's not the video game's fault, it's the specific individual who played the game. Videogame-inspired murderers are always of unsound mind and lack self-control. Jack Thompson should just move on to another, more worthy cause. Such as activism against juvenile dating(which is something I plan on doing myself).