MissingIntellect.Net

So there’s been another school shooting, this time at Virginia Tech. Not to detract from what a horrible event this is, but invariably, someone will try to blame this on video games. Because video games make people violent, right? Even if the gunman just played a game of Quake 5 years ago, people in the media will use that to claim that video games caused the terrible shooting. It’s happened before, and it will happen again. I wonder how long it will take Jack Thompson, to come out of the wood work.
Don’t get me wrong–do I think a 10-year-old should be playing Grand Theft Auto? Of course not. But this knee-jerk reaction against video games is ludicrous, considering that violent crime has been down among teenagers for years. But God forbid somebody use some common sense and actually look at the facts! After all, it takes a video gamer to know how to point a gun at someone, right? It’s not like people haven’t been shooting each bother with guns before video games. Video games don’t kill people. Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.