WhiteWolf Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 By now most of you know of the tragic news and events that took place shortly after the clock struck midnight this past Thursday in a Denver suburb movie theater. It was only a matter of time, however, until someone made the stupid comment and blamed the horrific events of Thursday on video games. CNN's criminal profiler Pat Brown who said on Friday morning video games gets a person in the mood to kill. "[He] probably spent a lot of time in his apartment, playing one video game after the other—shooting, shooting, shooting—building up his courage and building up the excitement of when it’s going to be real for him. MORE HERE http://www.examiner.com/article/cnn-video-games-help-you-get-the-mode-to-do-the-killing-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarath Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 Lame comments are all too plenty. But coming from someone holding such a position, well, that is surprising. But having openly made a fool of himself, I wonder if his words will hold any credibility. Also I guess they should be more concerned about the source of the weapons etc before dwelling into such ill founded comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Boss Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 I never expected US to have such a lame security really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aftrunner Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 Typical. Blame everyone and everything except for the fact that you allow people to buy and own guns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylanjosh Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 They're allowed to carry guns there. He had it legally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteWolf Posted July 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 Guns, a blood trail and the 'Joker': Madman claimed to be Batman's arch-enemy before he murdered 12 at midnight movie screening Pics Details are starting to emerge about James Holmes, the psychotic gunman who killed 12 people at a screening of the new Batman film on Thursday night. Holmes, 24, was a PhD student who was described as 'really smart' but was in the process of dropping out of graduate school at the University of Colorado Denver. He is said to have had few friends and barely any social life, instead spending hours indoors playing the video game Guitar Hero. Police are currently baffled as to Holmes's motives for launching the deadly attack which injured 71 people as they watched blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises at a midnight showing in Aurora, a suburb of Denver. However, one clue may come in a report that the killer, whose family comes from San Diego, had dyed his hair red and described himself as 'the Joker', implying that he was inspired by the popular Batman series itself. Although Holmes described himself as 'easy-going', neighbours and classmates recalled an anti-social recluse who had little contact with others. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176793/Denver-cinema-shooting-Gunman-James-Holmes-24.html#ixzz21LJPhfRW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueelvis_RoXXX Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 da faq hope this doesnt get published in the newspaper or else my mom will take away the ps3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteWolf Posted July 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 It's on CNN.....World's biggest news channel :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achilles Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 Mostly playing Guitar Hero to killing, way to make the journey CNN. So it's not only India TV then? All news channels are dumbasses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMG Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 If I go out and kill people, I can blame video games for it. How convenient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nameless Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 I blame the PhD. About time studying it is banned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhushan Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 no idea how it fits, atlest not in my book. played gow 3 but never thought of ripping ppl heads off. lol Sent from my GT-N7000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonStruckHorrors Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 Guy's a Criminal Profiler. He knows this stuff better than majority of us. If I don't get inspired to kill people after playing violent video games, it doesn't mean it works like this for every person out there. People, not just children, are impressionable. Some more than the others. I'm not saying I believe this guy killed those people just because of video games. But it's a possibility. Another thing that bothers me is when some research shows "Video games improve driving skills", people say something along the lines of "Video games FTW!" "Yay video games!". But when someone links video games to violence, they all get butthurt "THAT GUY SUXX" "VIDEO GAMES NO VIOLENCE LOL" "I NEVA KILLED ANYONE LOL". You are driving, you are solving puzzles & you are hurting people. If the driving & puzzle solving skills are getting better, isn't there a little chance that you're getting more violent - even by 0.0001%? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HundredProofSam Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/07/colorado-shooter-enjoyed-video-games-movies-school-friend-says.html Apparently, one of his friends said they used to game on the Wii. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg man Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 Yes . Video games made him violent . Or Maybe the dark nature of the movie . It's all their fault . Blame everything except the actual guy and his disturbed psychological health . How about not sensationaling this news for the sake of TRP and make feel every upcoming criminal that he can impact the normal life . Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanius Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 CNN : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylanjosh Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 Guy's a Criminal Profiler. He knows this stuff better than majority of us. If I don't get inspired to kill people after playing violent video games, it doesn't mean it works like this for every person out there. People, not just children, are impressionable. Some more than the others. I'm not saying I believe this guy killed those people just because of video games. But it's a possibility. Another thing that bothers me is when some research shows "Video games improve driving skills", people say something along the lines of "Video games FTW!" "Yay video games!". But when someone links video games to violence, they all get butthurt "THAT GUY SUXX" "VIDEO GAMES NO VIOLENCE LOL" "I NEVA KILLED ANYONE LOL". You are driving, you are solving puzzles & you are hurting people. If the driving & puzzle solving skills are getting better, isn't there a little chance that you're getting more violent - even by 0.0001%? Video game definitely have an effect on people. I won't deny that its desensitized me to violence - especially that nature of gun-related violence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playstation Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 Too much of anything...be it video games,alcohol,porn or even watching movies or anything we do in our daily lives ,is not good.When we get addicted to something even if it looks not harming at all...somewhere we grow a kinda of frustration in ourself,which is just waiting to come out. also to add... i honestly feel ...batman characters and atmosphere is too dark and real...in todays time it feels we feel even more closer to it... specially character like joker can have lot of influence on one's psych ...if allowed to... all this led to him going crazy...unfortunate for those poor soul..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godspeed4476 Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/07/colorado-shooter-enjoyed-video-games-movies-school-friend-says.html Apparently, one of his friends said they used to game on the Wii. I always believed Wii is the cause of all evil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CM Sunny Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 ffs people should be able to differentiate between reality & fantasy. Not the game's fault if they can't. If one loses his sense of moral values, you can't actually help him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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