The events in Virginia did shock me quite a bit. I am a university lecturer and the stories that come out are terrifying. Hours after the shootings the blame game (no pun intended) started. Experts were called by 24 hour news outlets. Fox News and MSNBC decided to ask anti-game lobbyist / attorney Jack Thompson for an opinion on the shootings. He started a rant about the doom and dismay that is today’s popular culture.

There are three things fundamentally wrong with his appearance. 1) He is no expert on school shootings, 2) he claims to know ‘facts’ about the shootings while nobody knows anything yet (he came on air just hours after the incident) and 3) he lies. His lies are documented by Kotaku. In the Netherlands Iris from gamer.nl weighed in.

I did as well and wrote an opinion piece for De Nieuwe Reporter entitled “De schaamteloosheid voorbij – de schuldvraag bij een school shooting”.