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Video games seized from teen?s home
By JAMES MINTON
Baker - Zachary bureau
Published: Jun 3, 2006
(Page 1 of 2)
ST. FRANCISVILLE ? Acting on a Florida lawyer?s suggestion that violent video games may have figured in Tuesday?s slaying of a West Feliciana Parish man, sheriff?s deputies searched the home of one teenage suspect again on Thursday.
West Feliciana Parish Sheriff?s Capt. Spence Dilworth said deputies seized several video games rated ?M? for ?Mature? from the residence of Kurt Edward Neher, 16, but the detective said he is not drawing any conclusions from his findings.
?I think it goes beyond video games, but who?s to say?? Dilworth said of the slaying of Michael Gore, 55, of 10077 La. 421, St. Francisville.
Dilworth said the question of whether video games can spark violence in juvenile players may be ?more of a debate for the living room rather than the courtroom.?
Video games rated ?M? by the Entertainment Software Rating Board have content that may be suitable for people 17 years of age and older. Such titles may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content or strong language, according to the board?s Web site.
Neher, whose mother has a mobile home parked on Gore?s property, and Hunter Everette, 17, of Denham Springs, were booked with first-degree murder and armed robbery on Wednesday.
A judge on Thursday found cause to transfer Neher?s case from Juvenile Court to District Court where he will be tried as an adult.
Jack Thompson of Coral Gables, Fla., said Friday he suggested that West Feliciana Parish sheriff?s detectives look at the violent video game angle as a possible motive because published reports of Gore?s injuries ?raised a red flag? in his, Thompson?s, mind.
Thompson is active in efforts to ban obscenity and violence in various media and has filed lawsuits alleging connections between violent crimes and video games.
Thompson testified before the Louisiana Legislature last month on behalf of a bill by Rep. Roy Burrell, D-Shreveport, to ban the sale of violent games to buyers younger than 18.
House Bill 1381 won approval in the House, 102-0, and cleared a Senate committee on Tuesday. It now awaits action by the full Senate.
Thompson said published reports that Neher told detectives he and Everette killed Gore because Gore would not let them borrow his car follows ?the same scenario in (the video) ?Grand Theft Auto.? ?
Sheriff J. Austin Daniel said an autopsy showed Gore was beaten to death but also shot in the face.
?Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you?re a hit man or a video gamer,? Thompson said, adding that the apparent repeated ?pummeling? of the victim is consistent with scenes in violent video games.
Douglas Lowenstein, president of a video industry group, said law enforcement experts, criminologists, prosecutors and academics dismiss suggestions that video games cause ?real-life crime.?
?The Entertainment Software Association expresses sincere sympathy to the family of the victim of this senseless crime. But efforts by discredited anti-video game zealots to blame video games are cynical and misplaced,? Lowenstein said.
?Violent crime involving kids predates video games,? Lowenstein said. ?Common sense tells us that video games do not create killers and that tragedies like this have to do with far more complex issues, from deep-seated psychological problems to a society in which violence and guns permeate the culture, from TV news to child and spousal abuse to war.?
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Now what I said on Digg
Well this is another reson I and millions of others think he's *jack Thompson* Is Crazy, a dumba%#,Cooocoooo for Being a Jacka^$, Um Need I go on?
But So what hes saying like every other Person against Video Games that They did it becasue they played it in GTA? OH MY FU%#%%$ GOD! JT...STOP THIS BS! Stop saying People do this becasue of Video Games..Its probably because its what they want to do!
SO JACK THOMPSON..SHUT THE F%#% UP YOU mother%#%#!
And Now my Rant is over..Thank you
Quote:
Video games seized from teen?s home
By JAMES MINTON
Baker - Zachary bureau
Published: Jun 3, 2006
(Page 1 of 2)
ST. FRANCISVILLE ? Acting on a Florida lawyer?s suggestion that violent video games may have figured in Tuesday?s slaying of a West Feliciana Parish man, sheriff?s deputies searched the home of one teenage suspect again on Thursday.
West Feliciana Parish Sheriff?s Capt. Spence Dilworth said deputies seized several video games rated ?M? for ?Mature? from the residence of Kurt Edward Neher, 16, but the detective said he is not drawing any conclusions from his findings.
?I think it goes beyond video games, but who?s to say?? Dilworth said of the slaying of Michael Gore, 55, of 10077 La. 421, St. Francisville.
Dilworth said the question of whether video games can spark violence in juvenile players may be ?more of a debate for the living room rather than the courtroom.?
Video games rated ?M? by the Entertainment Software Rating Board have content that may be suitable for people 17 years of age and older. Such titles may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content or strong language, according to the board?s Web site.
Neher, whose mother has a mobile home parked on Gore?s property, and Hunter Everette, 17, of Denham Springs, were booked with first-degree murder and armed robbery on Wednesday.
A judge on Thursday found cause to transfer Neher?s case from Juvenile Court to District Court where he will be tried as an adult.
Jack Thompson of Coral Gables, Fla., said Friday he suggested that West Feliciana Parish sheriff?s detectives look at the violent video game angle as a possible motive because published reports of Gore?s injuries ?raised a red flag? in his, Thompson?s, mind.
Thompson is active in efforts to ban obscenity and violence in various media and has filed lawsuits alleging connections between violent crimes and video games.
Thompson testified before the Louisiana Legislature last month on behalf of a bill by Rep. Roy Burrell, D-Shreveport, to ban the sale of violent games to buyers younger than 18.
House Bill 1381 won approval in the House, 102-0, and cleared a Senate committee on Tuesday. It now awaits action by the full Senate.
Thompson said published reports that Neher told detectives he and Everette killed Gore because Gore would not let them borrow his car follows ?the same scenario in (the video) ?Grand Theft Auto.? ?
Sheriff J. Austin Daniel said an autopsy showed Gore was beaten to death but also shot in the face.
?Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you?re a hit man or a video gamer,? Thompson said, adding that the apparent repeated ?pummeling? of the victim is consistent with scenes in violent video games.
Douglas Lowenstein, president of a video industry group, said law enforcement experts, criminologists, prosecutors and academics dismiss suggestions that video games cause ?real-life crime.?
?The Entertainment Software Association expresses sincere sympathy to the family of the victim of this senseless crime. But efforts by discredited anti-video game zealots to blame video games are cynical and misplaced,? Lowenstein said.
?Violent crime involving kids predates video games,? Lowenstein said. ?Common sense tells us that video games do not create killers and that tragedies like this have to do with far more complex issues, from deep-seated psychological problems to a society in which violence and guns permeate the culture, from TV news to child and spousal abuse to war.?
:haha: Now what I said on Digg
Well this is another reson I and millions of others think he's *jack Thompson* Is Crazy, a dumba%#,Cooocoooo for Being a Jacka^$, Um Need I go on?
But So what hes saying like every other Person against Video Games that They did it becasue they played it in GTA? OH MY FU%#%%$ GOD! JT...STOP THIS BS! Stop saying People do this becasue of Video Games..Its probably because its what they want to do!
SO JACK THOMPSON..SHUT THE F%#% UP YOU mother%#%#!
And Now my Rant is over..Thank you