The kid played too much GTA, and has just learned that life has no reset button.
His game is ended.
Are you joking? First off, it was revealed that he did not base the shooting on
GTA. Second, using lame video game metaphors are not clever. Here's a few more: It's GAME OVER, because man is the MOST DANGEROUS GAME, and you cannot PAUSE the progress of time, etc. And third, you're basically supporting Jack Tomphson's crazy madness theories.
Simply playing video games does nothing to your psyche. You could lock me in a room and have me play
GTA,
Doom and
Bully for a day, and I would walk out, sanity intact, at the end. Unless, of course, I couldn't use the bathroom or anything. If you already have psychological problems, then playing
GTA might conceivably push you over the edge, should you interpret the game as telling you to kill people. Look at Columbine: The two shooters didn't say
Doom gave them the inspiration; they mentioned
Doom once. The rest was insane Nazi-esque rantings and other weirdness. The Virginia Tech shooter already had a history of mental problems, and said in various notes that he was doing it against "rich kids" and "decietful charlatans". He never even freaking
mentioned video games. So I wish Jack Tomphson would quit capitalizing on tragedies such as this to further his career. I mean, I think he's already been banned from lawyering in several states; I'm surprised he has any credibility left.
