Games Seized Following Murder

GamePolitics reports that M-rated games have been taken as evidence a case involving the death of a 55-year old man in Louisiana. The connection? Jack Thompson says: "Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you're a hitman or a videogamer." GP goes on to point out the lunacy of this claim. From the site: "Funny, that. A quick Google search on 'shot in the face' turns up 921,000 entries."

Comments

Hitmen?

[Scrameustache]

Since when do hitmen execute people by shooting them in the face? Back of the head/neck is traditional.

Jack don't know anything.

Actually...

[Vo0k]

Most hitmen avoid headshots. Very messy and often with a good chance of survival of the subject. Load the brain with 5 bullets and the victim may still live, despite losing the ability to speak spanish, tell apart apples from oranges and move left leg. They will likely enter a coma though, which looks very much like they are dead, and they will come to and start talking at the least convenient moment. Real hitmen avoid headshots (from close distance at least, sniping is a different thing) and definitely prefer going for the heart. Nobody survives a hole in the heart and placing the third bullet precisely in the heart from a short distance is quite easy once shock from the first two paralyses the victim.

On the other hand, most games register heart shot as just another chest shot, scoring pretty low damage, while headshots, from any direction, including the face count as serious damage multiplier.

That would narrow it down... ;)

Re:Actually...

[Anonymous Coward]

A good way to remember this is "Once for business, once for fun". Chest first, then head.

This is why special forces use burst fire. They aim for the center of mass, and then let the gun track up for the rest of the shots. It's very effective.

What's really funny is that you don't learn this from a video game. The only people who would shoot someone in the face are average citizens - that is, extremely unprofessional / inefficient killers - which is a pretty strong argument against Jack Thompson as it is.

Logic 101

[Anti_Climax]

"Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you're a hitman or a videogamer."

Ok Class, I'd like you to open your Logical Arguments texts to the chapter of fallacies and begin reading from the heading False Choice

Hmmm.. the Mozambique drill. Not from gamers.

[Rifter13]

The Mozambique Drill is a 2+1 drill, where you fire 2 to center mass and 1 to the head. It is designed to stop those people hopped up on adrenalin or drugs. You generally fire "into the face" for this drill. Jack is really out there. He is becomming more shrill and pathetic as time goes on.

Trends

[giminy]

Google trends shows that there is no correlation between video games and being shot in the face. I rest my case.

Re:Google stats are meaningless

[Analogy Man]

How can he have overlooked all these easily found counterexamples?

The government doesn't have the tools necessary to validate this counter-example. It is clear from the governments desire to get at the logs of google searches they do not have access to google. Otherwise the government could determine from their own firewall and server logs the rate of pr0n links returned from innocuous searches.

Re:Shot in the face

[Anonymous Custard]

/agree

I think it's very sad that a violent game about killing police, stealing cars, and shooting pedestrians with shotguns only becomes M-rated if a male character can get intimate with a female character.

Would you rather expose your kid to sexual themes, or murder themes?