I knew it was coming. First came the loose, hell, totally fictional link between gaming and the school shooting at Red Lake High School, and like a vulture, along comes Jack Thompson. Instead of trying to summarize his babble, I ll just plop down his pile of steaming quotes here for your reading pleasure.

Dr. David Walsh, president of the National Institute on Media and Family, says it's also likely that Weise was influenced by media violence, whether it was in movies or video games.

Attorney Jack Thompson is convinced it's the latter in this case. Thompson represented the families of the three girls who died in the West Paducah, Kentucky, school shooting eight years ago. In that case, a 14-year-old boy shot eight people at his school. He told authorities he gotten some of his ideas from the video game "Doom."
Thompson sees parallels between the videogame, "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City," and Jeff Weise's animated production "Target Practice."

"It's a nearly precise replication of that game, even down to the exploding police car," says Thompson. "Also, the soundtrack of these two flash films, as they're called, that Weise prepared to basically let people know what he was going to do, have sound tracks of videogames on them."

Calls to the company that makes "Grand Theft Auto," Take2 Interactive, were not returned. And it's still not clear if Jeff Weise played video games.

I friggin love how they mention as an aside that Weise may not have even played video games. Never let facts stand in the way of a good story.

Web postings hold clues to Weise's actions [Minnesota Public Radio]