Jack Thompson...WTFBBQ?

I had to make a second blog entry today, just to talk about anti-gaming lawyer Jack Thompson and his latest bout with foot-in-mouth disease.

Check out this story. Apparently Jack Thompson blames Bill Gates for the VaTech shootings, suggesting that Microsoft was the publisher of Counterstrike. As pointed out in the article, although it can be said that Microsoft published Counterstrike on the Xbox, the original developer of the game was Valve Software. Oops!

Maybe Thompson is suggesting that we sue Microsoft for providing an operating system to play Counterstrike on. And you know what? I agree with him. While we're at it, let's sue Best Buy, Circuit City, Amazon.com, etc. for stocking these games on their shelves. Let's sue Dell, HP, Compaq, and other computer manufacturers for providing the hardware to play such games. Why don't we go all the way to oil companies, for selling fuel to allow me to go to the stores, or the car manufacturers themselves? Or why not Goodyear for providing me tires?

(Yeah, I can go on all night).

BTW, I am in pain after laughing uncontrollably at this guy's spiel.