= rampage ... always the same thing!
The U.S. "would-be lawyer and game-haters" Thompson took the massacre of the 27-year-old student Steven Kazmierczak, who shot and killed on Friday at the Northern Illions University six people and himself after the massacre itself taught as an opportunity to make use of video games responsible for the crime.
In a Fensehinterview with the U.S. broadcaster Fox News referred to the alleged 'expert on school shootings " again to titles such as Counter-Strike, which he called once again as the cause for this kind of carnage. The fact that so far no Kazmierczak motifs are known and indeed the gunman is not even determine a game-affinity, Thompson leave unimpressed.
"Once you start to play violent video games, it is more likely to imitate the behavior in these games"
, he emphasized to the news channel. Thus, the prosecutor pushed with his thesis on the effects of computer games once more into the public spotlight.
The 57 year-old Jack Thompson is now regarded as the most famous, but at the same also the most controversial opponent of so-called "killer games". The general public shocking actions of violent criminals or gunmen take the U.S. attorney like as an opportunity to establish relationships with video games and get in touch with bold theories have their say.
The "Microsoft Flight Simulator" for example, a "training program for terrorists" for the attacks of 11 be September 2001.
sensation weeks before his anger over the planned video game "Grand Theft Auto IV," whose release he was trying to stop. In the game you have to turn off a lawyer to take action against violent video games. Thompson originally saw this as a personal Attack on his person and was afraid to own statements at times of his life.