Following the violent tragedy that took place at Virginia
Tech on April 16, 2007, Florida attorney Jack Thompson was one of the first on
the scene to speak with the media. Thompson immediately pointed fingers at
the video game industry for driving Cho Seung-hui with games that the attorney
calls “murder simulators” which supposedly aided the killer during his crimes.
Oddly enough, no video games were found in the killer’s dorm room.
Members of the mainstream media may have wised up to Jack
Thompson’s tricks – for example, when Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball
called into question Thompson’s massive leaps in flawed logic and unsupported
facts.
Recently, the final
report from Governor Tim Kaine’s Virginia Tech Review Panel has been made
public, which reveals that the killer had little to ever do with video games.
As excerpted from the report by Game
Politics, “Sun and her parents recall that Cho seemed to be doing
better. He was enrolled in a Tae Kwon Do program for awhile, watched TV, and
played video games like Sonic the Hedgehog... None of the video games were war
games or had violent themes. He liked basketball and had a collection of
figurines and remote controlled cars.”
The report also included the account from one of Cho’s
roommates: “Cho’s roommate never saw him play video games. He would get movies
from the library and watch them on his laptop. The roommate never saw what they
were, but they always seemed dark. Cho would listen to and download heavy metal
music…”
