Yes, our wonderful friend and lawyer, Jack Thompson, is asserting that the US Department of Defense is colluding with the gaming industry. No, I am not making this up. The release cites the gaming habits of recent youth-shooting perpetrators (Columbine, Virginia Tech, etc.), as well as "a formal working relationship between the Department of Defense and the game industry at the Institute for Creative Technologies on the campus of the University of Southern California" as evidence for his claims. It's called evidence, Jack. Get some, not your ignorant assertions.
While I don't think a 5-year old needs to play GTA3, blaming a video game or some other factor besides the person is largely shifting the blame from the actual culprit. Influence? Sure, I can buy that, but ultimately, the game cannot force someone to kill, and blaming an inanimate object is insulting.
