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Jack Thompson On Another Windmill Chase
Anti-gaming attorney Jack Thompson sues Omaha police because he sees a connection between video games and Omaha Mall shooting.
On December 5th this year, a 19 year old male started a shooting at Omaha's Westroads mall. He killed 8 people along with himself in the process.
He suffered from attention deficit disorder, mood disorder, oppositional defiant disorder along with parent-child relationship problems. He had undergone two psychiatric hospitalizations before the incident.
It might seem that he did it because of the reasons mentioned above, but a Miami attorney Jack Thompson thinks otherwise. He is on another windmill chase*.
Thompson is suing Omaha Police because they did not take his theories seriously and refused to give him their files concerning the investigation. As always, Thompson thinks that violent video games contributed to the shooting. Grand Theft Auto was brought up too because individuals like Hawkins could rehearse their rampages before actually going on one.
May I add that Grand Theft Auto games are not very realistic and can not be used as simulations. A character can be shot multiple times before getting killed, you can kill a large number of people before the cops are onto you. Obviously Don Thompson* never played GTA long enough to realize that.
Violence has been around long before video games. Video games may contribute to it, but are not the real reason. Good parenting is the key to stop such behavior. We're not going to find a solution for the problem if we keep pointing in only one direction. Thousands (maybe millions) of people play violent games, and only few of them actually go on a rampage. The problem is not in games, because they had problem long before they played GTA or any other game.
*This article compares Jack Thompson to Don Quijote, who attacked windmills believing they are evil giants. He saw problems were there weren't any, and so does Jack Thompson.
Interview with Jack Thompson available at GamePolitics.
Posted by Mario on Dec, 29th 2007 12:29 AM (00:29).
On December 5th this year, a 19 year old male started a shooting at Omaha's Westroads mall. He killed 8 people along with himself in the process.
He suffered from attention deficit disorder, mood disorder, oppositional defiant disorder along with parent-child relationship problems. He had undergone two psychiatric hospitalizations before the incident.
It might seem that he did it because of the reasons mentioned above, but a Miami attorney Jack Thompson thinks otherwise. He is on another windmill chase*.
Thompson is suing Omaha Police because they did not take his theories seriously and refused to give him their files concerning the investigation. As always, Thompson thinks that violent video games contributed to the shooting. Grand Theft Auto was brought up too because individuals like Hawkins could rehearse their rampages before actually going on one.
May I add that Grand Theft Auto games are not very realistic and can not be used as simulations. A character can be shot multiple times before getting killed, you can kill a large number of people before the cops are onto you. Obviously Don Thompson* never played GTA long enough to realize that.
Violence has been around long before video games. Video games may contribute to it, but are not the real reason. Good parenting is the key to stop such behavior. We're not going to find a solution for the problem if we keep pointing in only one direction. Thousands (maybe millions) of people play violent games, and only few of them actually go on a rampage. The problem is not in games, because they had problem long before they played GTA or any other game.
*This article compares Jack Thompson to Don Quijote, who attacked windmills believing they are evil giants. He saw problems were there weren't any, and so does Jack Thompson.
Interview with Jack Thompson available at GamePolitics.
Posted by Mario on Dec, 29th 2007 12:29 AM (00:29).
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