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Clackamas Mall Shooting: Shooter Jacob Tyler Roberts Trained Using Video Games
Policy Mic.com ^ | 12/14/12 | Tom McKay

Posted on 12/15/2012 1:51:23 PM PST by drewh

Remember the Virginia tech shooting? Video games.

The Beltway sniper attacks? Video games.

And now the Clackamas mall shooting? Also video games, according to nationally recognized former attorney and anti-video game crusader Jack Thompson.

On Tuesday afternoon, shooter Jacob Tyler Roberts, 22, armed himself with a semi-automatic AR-15 and went on a rampage at the Clackamas Town Center in Portland, Oregon. He killed two and wounded another before committing suicide.

Thompson said in an interview that “Given this guy's method, his age group and the randomness of it, it's more likely than not that he rehearsed for this on games.”

It’s hardly the first time he has jumped to that conclusion in the hours and days following a mass shooting.

Thompson has blamed video games, particularly the Grand Theft Auto franchise, for nearly every shooting imaginable.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: banglist; clackamas; guncontrol; jackthompsonlies; secondamendment; shooting; strawman; videogames
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To: drewh

Whenever I see these horsesh*t conclusions being drawn, I remember something Rush says when they say this food or that food is bad for you: “Every single person who eats carrots is going to die.”


41 posted on 12/15/2012 4:39:11 PM PST by manic4organic (It was nice knowing you, America.)
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To: cripplecreek

Thanks.. I bet it’s the same lefty covering-up (for the occupy pukes) like they did by describing the Viet Cong flag that “anti-war” protestors carried as “red, blue, and yellow” protest banners.


42 posted on 12/15/2012 4:43:36 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: drewh
Clackamas Mall Shooting: Shooter Jacob Tyler Roberts Trained Using Video Games

OK. But what made him (and dozens of others worldwide before video games) do it?

Obtained from an Internet source..

At least fourteen recent school shootings were committed by those taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs

1.  Huntsville, Alabama – February 5, 2012: [shooter was] taking the antidepressant Zoloft and “other drugs for the conditions.”

2. Kauhajoki, Finland – September 23, 2008: [shooter] was taking an SSRI and a benzodiazapine.

3. Dekalb, Illinois – February 14, 2008: [shooter] had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien.

4. Jokela, Finland – November 7, 2007: [shooter] had been taking antidepressants

5. Cleveland, Ohio – October 10, 2007: [shooter] had been placed on the antidepressant Trazodone.

6. Red Lake, Minnesota – March 2005: [shooter was] on Prozac

7. Greenbush, New York – February 2004: [shooter] had been taking “medication for depression”.

8. Wahluke, Washington – April 10, 2001: [no shooting, used rifle to take hostages at school] had been taking the antidepressant Effexor.

9. El Cajon, California – March 22, 2001: [the shooter was] on the antidepressants Celexa and Effexor

10. Williamsport, Pennsylvania – March 7, 2001: [the shooter] was taking the antidepressant Prozac

11. Conyers, Georgia – May 20, 1999: [the shooter] was being treated with the stimulant Ritalin

12. Columbine, Colorado – April 20, 1999: [the shooters'] medical records remain sealed.

13. Notus, Idaho – April 16, 1999: [the shooter] was taking a prescribed SSRI antidepressant and Ritalin.

14. Springfield, Oregon – May 21, 1998: [the shooter] had been taking the antidepressant Prozac.

More..

  1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – March 8, 2012: [the shooter was found have had] Nine antidepressants [in his] apartment.
  2. Seal Beach, California – October 12, 2011: [the shooter was taking] Trazodone and the “mood stabilizer” Topamax.
  3. Lakeland, Florida – May 3, 2009: [the shooter] was on Tegretol, a drug prescribed for “bi-polar disorder”.
  4. Granberry Crossing, Alabama – April 26, 2009: [the shooter was on] the antipsychotic drug Geodon.
  5. Middletown, Maryland – April 17, 2009: [the shooter] had been taking the antidepressants Cymbalta and Paxil and the anti-anxiety drugs BuSpar and Xanax.
  6. Concord, California – January 11, 2009: [the shooter was] taking the antidepressant Prozac.
  7. Little Rock, Arkansas – August 14, 2008: [the shooter] was on an anti-depressant.
  8. Dekalb, Illinois – February 14, 2008: [the shooter] was taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien.
  9. North Meridian, Florida – July 8, 2003: [the shooter was] taking two antidepressants, Zoloft and Celexa.
  10. Wakefield, Massachusetts – December 26, 2000: [the shooter was taking] three antidepressants

43 posted on 12/15/2012 4:53:57 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: cripplecreek

Thanks for posting this.

I actually looked this afternoon at this info. People think this is a new phenomena. I was shocked at the 1927 Kehoe incident. Sort of sounded like OK City.

I will say that until recent times, there seemed to be a designated “target”. Bullying seems to be the most recent “reason”. Not a good reason...but at least some kind of reason. But walking into a mall, theater or classroom of first graders to kill evades me.

The media gives 24/7 coverage to these events. That may well encourage other people to seek that kind of notoriety. What a way to gain fame.

It is kind of amazing (and scary) the number of unhinged people that seem to walk among us. No doubt it’s always been that way.


44 posted on 12/15/2012 6:04:10 PM PST by berdie
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To: berdie

Its also important to note that more people = more targets and more nuts. Combine it with 24/7 media and they create the impression of an epidemic.

I was talking to my grandmother tonight and she reminded me of a story my great grandmother told me years ago about someone killing several children in a 1 room school near Petosky Michigan back in 1908 or so.

The fact is that this sort of thing has happened all through history one way or the other where people are gathered.


45 posted on 12/15/2012 6:15:50 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: drewh
Ever wonder why only two were killed when the shooter had a hi-capacity weapon? Google “Nick Meli” a licensed ccw carrier who confronted the POS and drew his weapon, all in violation of the mall's policy of no guns. The shooter saw him and Nick didn't take the shot because of potential harm to people in the line of fire. He maneuvered for a better position as the shooter cleared his weapon of the jam. The shooter then decided to end his rampage with his own demise after seeing that his 15 seconds of fame were not destined to make history, short circuiting what would could have been a massive body count.
http://www.kgw.com/news/Clackamas-man-armed-confronts-mall-shooter-183593571.html
46 posted on 12/15/2012 6:23:25 PM PST by Polynikes (Hakkaa Palle)
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To: cripplecreek

Well, thanks for checking. Sounds like that’s probably what it was.


47 posted on 12/15/2012 6:50:40 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: drewh

Soon we’ll all build giant slingshots and go on pig-killing rampages.


48 posted on 12/15/2012 7:18:51 PM PST by gotribe
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To: tet68

Jeepers...


49 posted on 12/15/2012 8:28:12 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: KevinDavis
Call me old fashion, but I would like to blame a*****e who did the crime.. But that is just me..

LOL! Oh my.. you ARE old fashioned. We're MUCH smarter these days.. everything happens for a reason, and the blame MUST be assigned. Let's say, GUNS! Yea, that's the ticket. ;-)

The real cause is: FREEDOM.

Liberty brings out the best, and the worst in society. If we want pure security, all we have to do is give up liberty.

50 posted on 12/15/2012 10:41:51 PM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them)
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