We knew it was coming, now we just have to wait for Jack Thomson to get on board.

MSNBC aired a story linking the Red Lake school shooting to video games. The connection comes from a violent piece of animation, called Target Practice, that Weise created. Dr Katherine Newman, a professor of sociology and author of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings, says that the Weise's art is in fact a reflection of a culture built on video games.

If you pick up the average video game, you're going to see sequences that look just like the animation this boy produced. It's not something that we look at and say, Oh, I've never seen that before. You will see it a million times if you pick up any of the common video games available to teenagers today.

More disturbing than the quotes is Newman's theory that Weise's animation followed a "script" that "we all find quite familiar from countless video games" which led MSNBC to top the story with this somewhat misleading headline: School Shooter Followed Video Game-Like Script.

Now all they have to do is figure out which video game in particular to blame and everyone will be able to rest better knowing that the death of ten people had nothing to do with the failures of a community and everything to do with the first amendment gone bad.

School Shooter Followed a Video Game-Like Script [MSNBC]

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