Blame Video Games! MSNBC Looks At The Trend

MSNBC has an article up on the trend of blaming video games for violent tragedies, such as the one in Virgina on Monday. Immediately, in that case, lawyer Jack Thompson and TV personality Dr. Phil blamed video games for either causing or facilitating the event. This article looks at this knee jerk reaction and whether it is fair.

The shooting on the Virginia Tech campus was only hours old, police hadn't even identified the gunman, and yet already the perpetrator had been fingered and was in the midst of being skewered in the media.

Video games. They were to blame for the dozens dead and wounded. They were behind the bloodiest massacre in U.S. history.

Or so Jack Thompson told Fox News and, in the days that followed, would continue to tell anyone who'd listen.

Read more on MSNBC.