Jack Thompson Threatens Gabe Newell Over School Shooter Mod

Certifiably sane videogame critic Jack Thompson has a warning for Valve superior Gabe Newell: shut down the School Shooter mod for Half life 2 Beaver State face up the consequences!

Tar Thompson may have been disbarred for life only that's not stopping him from keeping up the fight against the videogame manufacture and what he sees as the "murder simulators" it produces. Thompson's latest target is none other than Valve Software and specifically the head honch, Gabe Newell, who Thompson seems to think out is somehow involved with the ill-famed School Shooter: Continent Duty tou 2012 mod.

Thompson's letter fully:

"Dear Mr. Newell:

You either know or should know that the more lesson midgets WHO campaign Checkerboarded Studios have created a mod for your company's Uncomplete-Life which they call School Shooter: North Terra firma Tour 2012. This mod is a full-blown Columbine mass murder simulator which cannot function without your company's assistance and acquiescence.

Sessile hereby is a letter from FHE-ASAP that expresses their, my, and others' concerns about this Columbine massacre modernistic. As you either recognize OR should be intimate, your One-half-Life-time murder simulator was obsessionally played, and thus became a training aid, for a) teenaged Robert Steinhauser, who authored at Erfurt, Germany, the worst school shooting massacre in European history, and b) Seung-Hi Cho, who authored at Virginia Tech University the worst school shot massacre in world history. As to the last mentioned, the sources of this information are the Washington Emily Post and the Bran-new York Multiplication. Like a sho some sociopaths stimulate made reprises of Erfurt and Virginia Tech far more likely.

Given the fact that your company has the technological ability to stop the operation of School Shooter, you mustiness attempt steps immediately to do so.

Speaking for myself alone (for now), you have until five o'clock pm Eastern Time this Fri, March 18, 2011, to shut refine this common safety hazard I predicted years ago this civilis massacre spunky would arrive. I hate being right all the prison term.

GOVERN YOURSELF Consequently.

Regards, Jack Thompson"

Thompson claimed that copies of the letter were also sent to Checkerboarded Studios, FHE-ASAP [the Florida Higher Education Alliance for Substance Abuse Bar], the Conjunctive States Secretary of Education and "significant others."

It's a bit tricky to penetrate what role Newell has to play in all of this, aside from heading the company that created Half life 2 back in 2004. Moral obligations notwithstanding, I'm not so destined Valve can just wave its magic wand and make mods melt, nor that, if IT can, information technology should. As to the implied "or else" in his message, Thompson gave none indication as to what sort of punitive measures he intends to bring to give birth should Newell fail to heed his warning. Based on his history, I expect information technology will involve further threats, but we'll keep you posted conscionable in case.

Antonymous to Thompson's assertions, the regular U.S. government activity report on the murders of 32 people at Virginia Technical school in 2007 successful no mention of videogames whatsoever.

https://www.escapistmagazine.com/jack-thompson-threatens-gabe-newell-over-school-shooter-mod/

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