Columbine Video-Games Suit Dismissed

Dr_LHA writes: "This story on Yahoo! reports that the federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit that claimed the influence of video games and movies where what caused the Columbine High School massacre. Obvious to those of us who play GTA3 regularly but still manage to overcome the urge to plough over pedestrains on the way to work in the morning, but good to see someone high up showing some sense."

Comments

Re:Is THAT why I ran over all this school children

[Wizy]

all THOSE school children.

Re:The moral question...

[pnuema]

In this country we do have freedom of religion, but the Christian Bible is without doubt the age-old moral code.

MUST...RESIST...TEMPTATION...TO FLAME...ZEALOT...

Now to behave intelligently...

I think that whether you are religious or not - whether you are Christian or not it is tuff to argue the Bible as one of the best sources for a moral base.

Sure it is. I'll just mention an anecdote about children, old men, and bears...oh, it's just to easy. Always remember this about the bible...for every one passage you find to "prove" something, someone else will find two to "prove" the opposite.

That is what the founders chose even though some of them were arguably less religious than others and I think they hit right on, in that regard.

That's just plain false. The (arguably) most important part of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, comes straight from Humanist philosophy and Natural Law (Locke, Swift, Paine et. al.). It's about as non-religious as you can get. Please read some legitimate history before you do this again.

Re:One more stupid lawsuit out of the way.

[Zeinfeld]

One more scapegoat for bad parenting taken away.

I found it somewhat interesting that when the California 'American Taleban' is being discussed the right leap to the conclusion that his liberal upbringing must be at fault.

But when a good ol' southern boy flies into an office block with a Cesna attempting to duplicate 9/11 the problem cannot be his conservative upbringing, its his acne medication that is to blame.

When Timothy McVeigh murdered 350+ in the Oaklahoma bombing it was clear that Reno and Clinton were to blame.

Fact is that very often there is nobody to blame. Mental illness happens. People who have personality disorders can appear completely normal outside the locus of their disorder.

What the conservatives will never allow to be blamed for Columbine or anything is the gun ownership they and the NRA do all in their power to protect. This even extends to protecting the gun registration information of Al Qaeda suspects. The people who made the guns used by the Columbine killers had a far more direct connection to the killing than the Video game manufacturers, but they can't be to blame because they are on 'our side'.

The videogame suit is really just another episode of the cultural war that conservatives have been waging since the 70s. They hate homosexuals, Catholics, Jews, Blacks, equal treatment of women and especially the permissive society. They want to wage a war against it but they have been so utterly defeated that they can only voice their true views in private (has anyone asked Kisinger what he thinks of the Nixon/Billy Graham anti semitism tape?) or in coded references to 'states rights', 'unfair treatment' or the old favorite 'liberal media'

Oh yes and watch out because round two will be the geeks.