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Games Made Me Do It Defense Didn't Work

Posted by Zonk on from the saw-right-through-that-one dept.

BuddingMonkey wrote to mention a heartening ruling from a judge who saw beyond the anti-gaming hype. CNN is reporting that Devin Moor has been found guilty of murder, in a well publicized case where the defendant stated that video games caused his behavior. From the article: "Prosecutor Lyn Durham said Tuesday that Moore knew what he was doing when he grabbed a patrolman's gun and killed two officers and a radio dispatcher. 'And he knew it was wrong,' she said."

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  1. ...also by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Video games made me pour Hot Coffee all over my naked girlfriend!

  2. norman, please coordinate... by Khyron · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but, the games, if they did not cause this then games might not be dangerous to children but then the government would be wrong in spending millions of tax dollars on needless investigations and... ...it's like, if the gun manufacturers are not to blame for gun crimes but grokster is to blame for p2p crimes and videogame companies are to blame *twitch* not to blame *twitch* to blame for....

    ILLOGICAL! ILLOGICAL! THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE!

  3. How about this by Kraeloc · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm going to make a game that ends in the player killing themself, hype it up a whole lot, and let the problem solve itself.