Games Seized Following Murder 354
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."
Hitmen? (Score:5, Interesting)
Jack don't know anything.
Actually... (Score:5, Interesting)
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...
Logic 101 (Score:4, Interesting)
Hmmm.. the Mozambique drill. Not from gamers. (Score:2, Interesting)
Trends (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Google stats are meaningless (Score:3, Interesting)
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 (Score:5, Interesting)
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?
Re:Actually... (Score:0, Interesting)
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.