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Games not linked to Virginia Tech drama

By Antti 'drinn' Paasivaara
Aug 31, 2007 13:40


Virginia governor's office has today released an official report of Virginia Tech's school shooting that was the largest kind incident in the field of United States. 30 students and two teachers were killed before Seung Hi Cho turned the gun towards oneself and pulled the trigger. The report features the issue of video games such as Counter-Strike which was supposed to be one of the crucial links to this mass-murdering, but this report all told uncovers that the mentioned claim has been discarded. This means there is no link at all to video games. The thing between video games and Virginia Tech aroused a lot of attention when Fox TV News own Jack Thompson laid Counter-Strike game to guilty as one of the links for this mass-murdering. Thompson related his claim to previous school shootings and commented the following way: "What the FBI and Secret Service found after Columbine after looking at all the school shooting up to then was the common denominator of the perpetrators being immersed in incredibly violent entertainment, most notably violent video games." Thompson has also claimed Doom and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City games to be the link in other murders. "To have been able to pull this off, with the high body count, one has to have been able to have rehearsed it, and I think that's unfortunately what will be found to be the case," continued Thompson of his beliefs. Thompson's statements were however abandoned as he is known from his history of the crusade versus video games, and that Cho's room mates never saw him playing Counter-Strike or any other violent video games which although, many other student used to play. Only link to Cho and video games was that he used to play games like Sonic the Hedgehog in his childhood.


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