Found in the postscript to today’s story about the 27-year sentence for 270 Sniper Charles McCoy:

Another Franklin County jury might still hear about McCoy’s crimes.

Miami lawyer Jack Thompson stood beside Brent Knisley yesterday and said he plans to file a wrongful-death lawsuit on behalf of the family against the makers of violent adult video games, the kind that McCoy often played in the basement of his mother’s home.

Many of them involved shooting at cars and innocent victims; some were confiscated from McCoy’s Las Vegas motel room.

As part of the plea, McCoy has agreed to talk with an FBI profiler and members of the central Ohio task force that hunted him to discuss his crimes and the effect, if any, the video games had on his conduct.

Hooray! Let the witchhunt begin! Of course it was the video games, don’t you see? There’s no way that it could have been the result of McCoy’s admitted failure to take prescribed medication for his long-diagnosed mental health problems, or his (dare I say it) family’s reluctance/failure to keep, y’know, tabs on their mentally troubled son who had bought guns the year before. No, clearly, the guys who were coding up MAX PAYNE at Rockstar back in 2002 and 2003 should have KNOWN that those particular algorithims would someday force a troubled young man to fire a gun off of an overpass, striking and killing a woman riding in a passing car! Rockstar’s nefarious plan to destroy American civilization is public knowledge, after all, since Senator Clinton’s stunning revelation that kids could find out about sex from video games they shouldn’t have been able to buy without parental consent in the first place! It’s so clear! Rockstar Hates America! To the ramparts! Boil the oil! Bring the pitchforks! Litigate! Litigate, I say!

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God, I hate lawyers. [/irony]