Jack Thompson Interview on Fox News

[nakatabrother]

Wow so playing counter strike teaches me how to be a professional killer, AWESOME i better play some more so that i can kill a whole team of terrorists.

[Raysiclove]

Well, if Jack thompson ever watches Halloween, he'll say,"Grand Theft Auto made Michael Myers kill his sister.

[scootlink]

This Counter Strike: Half Life game sounds awesome! Where can I get it?

[116Bears]

Anyone who has ever shot a real gun knows it is nothing like a video game. 

[LuckyStudentStudios]

wow!so videogames really train people! i gotta get me fifa 11 and i will become proffesional football player.

Jack Thompson is moron

[ghoster901]

i having real fun playing counter strike i think when i get to be 20 i will shoot up vtec come on really how do you use a pc game to train to kill people

[CrappyAmvNetwork]

nope, no problems in the shooters social life or problems in his family...VIDEO GAMES!

[MrOhiokid]

There would be a lot more school shootings if games made children kill people.

[Crazyman1212]

training on half life, lol....what a tool.

[CartoonTwins]

counter strike: half life? LOL

[grandpamoe1]

@CartoonTwins L0L0L0L0OLOLOLOLOLOOLOLOL I LMFAO WHEN I HEARD THAT

[suckerpawnch]

Simulators called video games. Yes, folks, you may call them games, but in reality, the full name is: Mass Murder Rehearsal Unit. As we all know, the likeness between holding a real gun and shooting a real human is uncanny with shooting a virtual gun and killing a virtual collection of 1's and 0's.

[TheChickenHeckler]

I think I just lost some um, uh, umm, I lost my train of thought. oh yeah! Brain cells! I lost a lot of those!

[blood117]

Well, my guess is that Jack Thompson is insane.

[NVaizard]

Jack Thompson AAAAAAND Fox News?! WOOOW!!!

[BlakAttk]

wait so he bashes how video games are violent and make people do crimes. But he's the one who wrote a chapter about kids shooting everyone up in a school. He said it was fictionalized which means HE thought of it. Who really has the warped mind?

[TheJenicidal]

you cant even aim down the sight in counter strike nd half life is super confusing i hope commander sheperd flies the normandy up yours

[ChaseCamera]

This is so dumb, games are so unrealistic. You can run forever, carry thousands of pounds of equipment in an invisible bag, get shot hundreds of times without flinching, even magically come back from the dead, and this guy calls it a "rehearsal". Ok then I guess Im ready to start my own civilization to stand the test of time. Ill be back in ten turns, I have to go research alphabet

[irmesia]

screw you jack thompson i played counter strike and grand theft auto when i was 5 nothing of this happened this guy is so pathetic! better thing jack thompson go and F*** your self!

[A10tankkiller93]

"hay look buddy im a engineer that means i solve problems"

[Monokk3li]

wait wait wait... did I hear Counter Strike Half Life at 1:03?

[mastermoogleman]

same old rant from mr thompson when is this man gonna come up with something new

[callycap3]

He's an idiot, obviously, but he should come to realise he is an idiot.

Also if he wants to stop gun violence, maybe he should propose limits on REAL guns rather than video game guns. Fucking idiot.

[CoDGamingVids]

Lol wat a fuckin idiot right off the bat he involves video games into campus massacres.

[TKGB2006]

Even the news reporter couldn't take this.

I bet when Thompson heard about this shooting, he wanted to take advantage of it for his political views.

[nexho555]

wow this guy is just.. wow.. no words so.. after watching this video what did i learnt?

that when i get an 11 killstreak i jump on a gunship and kill people...? thats uh.. interesting.

[ecnos]

yes i play gears of war and i get my gun and chainsaw people -_-

Fuck you jack thompson

[Acousticlove1016]

LOL - I play CoD - and everyday i massacre another school, amirite, Jack?

[WittingStudios]

And Team Fortress 2 turns me into a Heavy, but in reality I'm a Spy!

[TheManmek]

at 0:11 OWNED!!! XD

[Se7enBeatleofDoom]

Can someone tell what the fuck does ages have to do with anything? Because the age difference is so important great job so called fox news!

[TheManmek]

@Se7enBeatleofDoom I agree with you judging on someones age is like racism

[scootlink]

@TheManmek

No it's not!

It's ageism!

[45678ret]

thats his law plan blain everything on video games

[Ourlovers]

im from Sweden and i had only one thing to say. "only in America"

[nexho555]

@Ourlovers I just cant disagree with you XD

[prothipourgos]

trained in counter-strike...?so he killed using his mouse...?omg....

[TheBamBamPanda]

Super Mario is some serious shit man. If you play it too much you'll be eating strange shrooms and killing turtles... Oh yeah and killing children.

[Jesssteam]

My career is screwed up, and it's because when I was smaller I played Sims and enjoyed seeing the family-fails, I also killed 15 people with broken bottle after playing Manhunt, and last but not least, after playing Mass Effect, I started raping occasionally. Blame the games! :D

[bobutler1]

jack ur a tool

[MrPC1337]

train on counterstrike...

[ecotts]

@MrPC1337 I train on Battlefield Bad Company 2, how about you guys? lmao

[darkevilandcoolray]

@MrPC1337 COUNTER STIKE:HALF LIFE

[pk4eva2]

Question

Wasnt this child on psychoactive drugs?

[Se7enBeatleofDoom]

@pk4eva2 Most likely and they have helped!

[tomdaabomb]

Counter Strike: Half life

The newest game by Valve where Gordon Freeman is forced to fight alien terrorists. Set to release in Q4 2010

[jarpasmannen]

I´ve played violent games since I could walk and Im the nicest guy in school.

[paydafee]

according to jack thompson's logic

playing world of warcraft will cause me to have a mana bar, and I will be able to cast fireballs and kill dragons

[Acousticlove1016]

@paydafee WATCH THE TAIL!

[999RICARDO999]

Lol. Who trains on video games? i dont train on resident evil to prepare for a zombie apocalypse. i dont play gta because i wanna pratice killing hookers. this guy knows fuck all. How do you train at killing PEOPLE by playing half life, a game about killing ALINENS!?

p.s in all my years of playing video games i never heard of a game called counter strike half life, might look it up!

[F45B]

"Studies show that EVERY person involved in a school shooting has worn shoes at some point in their lives. Shoes have been proven to be the cause of it, and everyone that owns a pair of shoes will be unable to legally own any object that can be used to induce harm. That does include your own limbs.:

[Kaweebo]

Just because he played Grand Theft Auto and killed 7 people, automatically mea n that it's GTA's fault? Screw you Jack! I have cousins that have played it since they were SIX and they're at COLLEGE now!

[tallwhiteninja]

Proof that Fox News is total garbage: labeling this piece of trash as a "Campus Shootings Expert"

[ImEuanAndIGotsSkeelz]

listen to that snake twisting the words, "trained" on counter strike.... thats just outright slander :P

[Chibbiekid]

You know, I doubt he's ever even played those damn games.

[xpoohxbrutalx]

counter-strike half life LOLOL WTF

shut the fuck up jack thompson

[Techfreak313]

Next thing you know he'll get hit in the head with a Dead Space CD...

Get it? lol

[enlightenfools]

Frag Jack Thompson.

[binty47]

counterstrike half life ROFL he has no idea what hes talking about..

[Xetrill]

Grow a brain, do the math, and shut up omfg

[Lapaga]

This old guy, JUST LIKE ANY OTHER OLD PEOPLE, they just hate this so called "violent videogames" because they had a sad youth without real games :)

[Hennebury7]

We wish you weren't here either, Jack.

[MrTmar1]

i wish i wasnt here says jack thompson

[goo157]

trained on a video game lol. I know once I play tony hawks pro skater I become a pro skater, the training is intense but when I get to a rail bar, I just press triangle and grind, I'm a pro skater now, thank you video game training

[swanwen]

What.the.f*ck. If this guy is telling the truth I would start climbing up buildings and jumping down them thinking I would live. I have played Dead Space, GTA 4, etc. and I have NEVER thought of repeating it EVER in my life. This guy Is a shithead.

[MazzaTheFirst]

OH hohoho, that slaps me on the knee!

Seriously, this dude cracks me up. Never heard the drum kit though, or a punch line.

Can someone edit this with a laughtrack?

[ente214]

campus shooting expert?

but he wrote a book, very interesting...

[Cossner]

I just played Party Babyz, I feel the urge to bath in the blood of a 1000 virgins.

[hantront]

I just played postal 2... I feel the urge of uneccesary violence!

[lich109]

brain scan studies at harvard. riiiiiggghhtt. hey you can train on counterstrike and half life? Awesome I'll take all those terrorist bastards, and i won't forget what i'm doing with all the training i get from brain age age, and i'll be fully fit with using the wii. yeah jack thompson, this is the thing that creates super killing machines. If they did, wouldn't you be dead by now?

[gun844]

You are a barbarian anglosuckson.

[lewisisawesometastic]

Fox news is one step short of the comedy channel, as in equally as inaccurate, but they're not trying to be funny.

[djklink20009]

i just played mass affect the force unleashed and resident evil 5 :p im a zombiefied biotic sith lord light sabre wielding bitch from hell :P

[DBDxxBulldog]

hmmm... i always thought the leading cause of killings was religion. i also noticed the kid's parents weren't blamed

[PaleKidNO]

What a delusioal man...

[NOMADLEON]

I just played Gears of war 2, i feel the urge to chainsaw people ! xD

[piebeforedawn]

Oh, fuckin hell yeah! It'd be best if it was Mr. Thompson himself. :)

Seriously though, he's probably just mad because he's such a n00b.

[Kainlarsen]

HOW disbarred is Jack Thompson?:D

And this is why you shouldn't allow crazy, God-bothering 'lawyers' to comment on videogames.

Not even FOX wanted him there anymore.

[CRIMS0NKANE]

they didnt run out of time in the interview, they just wanted his dumbass off camera before people people started rioting outside FOX NEWS HQ

[judacribz]

a simulation is like gran turismo where u sit on a chair and drive a steering wheel...wen u play shooters ur using a controller

[judacribz]

how do u rehearse using a game? wtf u rehearse in real life not in a game cuz ur not simulating ur body motion

[chwynn]

That's weird, I kinda feel like shooting Jack Thompson now... maybe its the games I play, but more probably its that I feel like keeping the retard population down.

[Tsoleau613]

Talk about a blowhard! Man if that were the truth then I would be a killer. I've been playing games since I was eight. Using a tragedy for political ends a disgrace.

[eviltube1111]

People really hate what they don't understand. What arrogant pricks they are, thinking they know everything about a topic they're clueless about. Fox News attacks gamers but supports war for oil and "WMD's". WHAT THE FUCK!

[redsawdom]

Campus shooting expert.

That says it all. -__-

[zerofighter87]

jack tompson........ talk to the hand

[CiderianElite]

"i wrote a book"

that makes you a expert right?

[Renagade4]

I have played, so many violet and scary and screwed up video games, that I would fit the persona being described by Mr Jackass Thompson. I have never done anything relatively violet, I am rather pacifist when it comes to fighting, and when I hear someone insulting something I know well and love, it makes me rather pissed. Uninformed biased idiots like this are the reason I never will watch FUX news.

[THavoK99]

Jack Thompson: Campus Shooting Expert...?? I didn't know they had experts in this field -.-

Fuck off and go buy Mortal Kombat, blow off some steam. After all, isn't that what games are for? Jesus.

[Benzinsane]

Well, there's no doubt you can make it easier to kill someone by playing video games a ton, but that doesn't mean you would. RL and Games are COMPLETELY different. You gotta be screwed up to begin with to pull a stunt like that. Or your like, a GANGSTA G NIGGA. Somethin' like that.

[NorthWriter]

I have played GTA, HALO, and a good chunk of FPS games on the market.

I am also a gun-owner. 

I have never...repeat, NEVER...had the urge to act out what I see in video games.

[xerxerxex]

I call BULLSHIT! JACK THOMPSON IS A FUCKING TOOL!

[Plodipus92]

I wish you weren't here as well you fucking retard.

[noodleo010]

eh? you can train shooting on videogames? =_= I would love to see a gun with a joystick or mousebutton...

[eternalgracenote]

Let's make a game about the NRA and watch Republican's heads explode in utter confusion of how to approach the topic.

[no1cp]

Why doesn't anyone ever mention to Jack that millions of people play games like Halo or Grand Theft Auto, so why don't more of these shootings occur then in society?!

[Anonymous23412]

what a prick XD

[Hairysteed]

"inaccurate" is the understatement of the millennium!

[powermagus234]

Clearly this man is slightly off his rocker.

[GoldenIgnorance]

why didnt the gunman kill thompson?!

[TomDarkwulf]

He DOES realize that Counter Strike is about stopping terrorists right?

[Merchant2006]

I love how they've barred him from everywhere in Law. This guy is screwed for life, and I'm glad to see he finally got what's coming to him, constantly banging about how Video Games are the cause of every form of violence. Jack Thompson, enjoy the rest of your life :D

[Merchant2006]

*DISbarred :)

[cool140000]

Jack Tompson know JACKSHIT!!!!!!!

[Unknownsage13]

Didn't this dude get his position as a lawyer removed because of his behavior?

[thomas007]

he did,.

[Unknownsage13]

Ha and apparently now they're trying to remove his job completely. :D

[Mysteryracerdude]

He's never played a game before.

[GeorgeX01]

dude what a douchebag!

[cheeseslayersmu]

This guy is such a bad psychologist that he blames video games for the shooting.

[Unknownsage13]

For the shooting? He blames games for everything. Immigration, gay marriage, holocaust, 9/11.

[thomas007]

lol games caused 9/11?

[lordkcaptainx]

apparently. He'd probably blame Microsoft's Flight Simulator games for that.

[bertski909]

Jack is angry because he fails at video games

[oktober1010]

he is angry because he can't play counter strike

[Araknothify]

While what this guy is crapping on about might be true for a small minority of people who take "violent" games seriously enough to go massacre people, for the majority of the general gaming community there is no basis in what he is saying

[deamonace7]

how is using a mouse or a controller transfer into using a gun. because last time i checked a controller and a gun are two totally different things. and one last thing we have seen this before with rock remember when they blamed all of society's problems on the music, i guess the new target is video games.

[bertski909]

also, for it to be a simulator doesn't it have to be hyper realistic? I don't think that Halo, GTA, or Counter Strike are very realistic.

[0neofthem]

someone need to kick this guys ass

[Kaspar5000]

so if i play fallout 3 i can pick locked doors, hack computers, reload guns, wear a power armor and repair my clothes and weapons and create weapons without trying it in real life? jack do us all a favour and find yourself a better hobby

[Mysteryracerdude]

my dad's playing fallout 3 right now.

[Tomahaukka]

Listening to what Jack Thompson makes me wonder if people actually realize that being interrested in violent games and moves etc. might be caused by violent personality, not cause of it, or in most of cases, they don't have anything to do with each other.

[BlueSong18]

I started playing Doom when I was young and have continued playing video games that are gory and have fighting included in them. I am a very good student, going to University in the fall to study nursing. I don't think these video games really affect children. Unless they have other background such as family issues or mental health issues, your children will turn out just fine.

[alapigeon]

ive played very violent games since i was a kid (and when i wasnt i was playing armies with my friends or making my lego men fight). im now 18 and a medical student with As and Bs so far. FUCK YOU.

[tazerfire]

they blame everything on video games, video games don't make you pick up a gun and shoot someone, its not gamers fault if someone is mentally unstable and decides to pick up a gun a shoot people, maybe you should do more and start seeing the illness before it starts instead of blaming it on games when it is clearly your fault for not seeing it in the first place, you just want to pass the blame for you not doing your job and finding mentally unstable people and treating them.

[crazyCJ123456]

Jack Thompson is against video games because when ever he plays them he loses or dies in 3 seconds.

[4nElitist]

LOL. I never thought of that. I would love to school him in halo or cs and let him try to say "Its just a video game."Id be like "Ha got you bitch."

[Mitzuishi64]

whatever biatch...

[carsrondickl]

fuck this guy. it was that kid's choice to shoot those people. Video games have NO effect when it comes to this kind of thing. Jack Thompson is the dumbest piece of shit.

[macfreak18]

k yeah i wont be in clouds but im makin it

[macfreak18]

im pretty good at grammar (except for the net just cuz not using grammar goes faster) anyways im pretty sure its little kids that say werent, they at least figure out how to say things right in 3rd grade and he says weren't... omg... other than that ima post a video about this kinda stuff if you want to watch (ill be in clouds and the name will be "violence whoa omg and video games and music" that because itll be easier to find) so ill be in the process, cya

[luigi905]

that assuming bastard.

[macfreak18]

hold up hold up HOLD UP!!! i wish i WEREN'T here????? wtf and he does studying on vid games and school shootings??? im pissed

[GeorgeX01]

Its really curios that the only country on the world that has violence cause of videogames is UNITED STATES... in mexico this things dont happend cause of videogames!!!

[Inutown]

It's not the video games fault, it's the stupid people who think their in a video game and think life is a game. IMO Jack Thompson doesn't even know what he's talking about when he's against video games.

[BingKafei]

September 25th, the day he was permanently disbarred from practicing law, is now an unofficial gamer holiday. I spent my last one handing out Jr Mints to strangers in celebration.

[Mintybreath50]

Oh yes because pressing buttons is so similar and trains you how to pick up a gun, sneak it into a building, aim at moving targets, accout for weight, and for recoil. Im glad Jack Thompson's liscense to practice law was revoked.

[NESWIIGAMECUBE]

when jack off thompson said he wish he was not here, he wasnt talking about how tragic this was. He just didnt give a shit!

[nakada7224]

Jack Tompson is the anti- christ of the video game community that lies about the games and says that socalled "Studies"

Hey, jack tompson, FUCK YOU BITCH!! SUCK MY ASS! RIP OUT YOU SPINE AND EAT YOUR OWN ASS!! CSS iS FUN AND HARMLESS AND HAS COUNTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISTS!! NOT STUDENTS DICKWAUD!

[JackThompsonlawyer]

I heard Jackass Thompson wrote a letter to Obama telling him to ban video games. That was back in march 2009. Even after his disbarrement he still finds a way to cause problems.

[EvilPanda1988]

Fuck Jack Thompson! I know people who were in that room. My friends are lucky to be alive. And he comes on the news and takes this incident and tries to turn it around and blame it on video games. Now I don't give a shit about your little fight against about video games but Jesus Christ! Have some respect for the people who lost their lives. Have some respect the family's who lost their children. Fuck you Jack! Fuck you!

[videosfromderelix]

"if you play things like, oh i dont know, violent games" very clever jack. He pretended to be an expert that was just mentioning one of the causes when really thats all he ever talks about lol. I miss his rants.

[JosephStrang]

If you miss them, then just go down to GamePolitics. I don't know why they keep covering him, but he certainly hasn't slowed down his bullshit since he was disbarred.

[videosfromderelix]

Thanks i will. ^_^

[JackThompsonlawyer]

video games like hitman trains be to be a real hitman. It trains me how to use a real sniper gun and load bullets in it.

[luigi905]

Whatever.

[Marv2121]

How can you "train" on Half-life....I could dig Counter-strike, which is somewhat realistic, but If I train 9 hours a day on CS and get into a real gunfight im going to get my ass pumped full of lead!!! Lawl! Jack Thompson is amazing!

[videosfromderelix]

CS is no more realistic than Half life. People just see a FPS screen and assume that because you see what the protagonist sees then you must also be learning how to aim and shoot guns or something.

[SignatoryUrchin]

He's almost saying that video games are what lead to violence yet their has been violence going on since the begining of man's existence

[Xp710]

ok..did the news caster ask if video games were involved..

[dagiff]

This is the biggest pile of crap I've ever heard

[ccricers]

What sucks with these shootings is how predictable the killers act, in that they kill themselves in the end. It would be nice to capture them alive so that we don't let people like Jack erroneously try to read into their minds and blame the games on it.

[RKOsome]

what a weak argument by thompson he never seems like he knows what hes talking about, what a dick...

[bakakawaiinekochan]

the fact the uh, the uh i wrote a book

[bladetorn13]

sorry, i lost my train of thought

[emokidsstolemycar]

What a douchebag

I'm gonna go "train" on some street fighter, so when i see him i can shoryuken his sorry ass.

[sonicdx36]

How about mortal kombat instead!

[Thueface]

*during the attempt to shoot someone* "Hey, where the fcuk is my aimkey? -.-"

[slimac55]

This guy is basically saying that all theses shooters are gamers.

But I'd like to reverse it.

Are all gamers shooters?

[Dojigomiru]

fuck you jack thompson!

[jcldwll]

Counterstrike: Half-life eh? copycat simulator's called video games eh? Wow... get harvard to do a fucking study on your theories jackass

[ozaray]

Yeah training with a mouse is exactly like training with a shotgun! the kickback with both are exactly the same!

[HOMERFAN1025]

Jack Thompson is a dueshe

[Born2killx]

"...a kid should walk onto a stage in an auditorium and open fire with a shotgun..."

Clearly, this guy's whacked up in the head.

[garapa]

a game where you play as a thug using a jet pack and dual Uzis to raid a train to get some green gue thing is considered a simulator for jack thonpson... this dude is so fucked up....

[mcemij]

White People.. Stop killing people.

You making America look bad.

Be smart. Don't be a retard!

[Basketno707]

i played msflight simulator

i are going to fly a 747 now because i know how to do it

well at least thats his logic

[StarshadowKnight]

"Counterstrike: Half-Life"?

um Jack, it's "Half-Life: Counterstrike" or just "Counterstrike". Can't even get the name right of the game you are attacking.

[crshi23]

adults dont know what they are talking about when they attack video games

[kylepeevler]

I wish I wasn't here

Yeah we wish you wern't here to

ROFL first ten seconds

[tsubasahawkeye]

"Trained!" "Simulater!" What the hell is wrong with this guy? I played Bioshock for weeks, and you don't see me stabbing people with needles to try to get Adam.

[DJCALIMEXBLAZE]

All of thse smart-soundng words all mean...

HEY, I'M A DOUCHEBAG!

[Struble1990]

"Brain scans from Harvard" my ass. Screw you up the ass JT

[metamano]

jakc thompsons a doouuuuuush baaaaaaag lol

[Fangus13]

Straight to the videogames, no messing around for this ill informed sensationalist.

[youngAKIgee]

im the true king of counter strike

[youngAKIgee]

the only bad thing bout counter strike is that its very addictive, but i still love it

[mulry101]

And Super Mario Bros. will make me a plumber.