And, while the dead are still being counted, Thompson has leapt on the story with all his usual levels of sensitivity and good taste in a bid to further his own political agenda. Referred to as a "school shooting expert" on Fox News, Thompson suggested that the shootings could be tied to video games, singling out Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto games for special criticism.
"What the FBI and secret service found after the Columbine shooting was the common denominator being the immersion of the perpetrators in incredibly violent entertainment, most notably violent video games," stated Thompson, who then went on to use previous school shootings as examples of the supposed link between video games and violence. One of his examples was Jeff Weise, the perpetrator of the Red Lake High School massacre in March 2005, who Thompson claimed had, "rehearsed for the massacre by playing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City in order to get his heart-rate down and be able to kill."
"So that's one thing the authorities are going to be looking at, because to be able to pull this off, with this high body count, one has to have rehearsed it in order to get ready to do it," concluded Thompson.
Thompson's interview with Fox News can be heard in full here.
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