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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking on Erin Burnett: Suspect was very big into gaming
Giving some details about the suspect's life with quotes from associates and friends. The gaming part goes with some of the memes on the bullets and could explain more about his motive.

Bristlecone
(10,864 posts)Everything but the obvious.
LostOne4Ever
(9,702 posts)Maybe they will finally realize that they been increasingly supporting the people who ACTUALLY want to take their games away! Maybe they might see that those who drank the gamergate/ cancel culture/ anti-woke propaganda cool-aid are now being thrown under the bus and are now and forever more politically homeless.
Silent Type
(10,967 posts)Retrograde
(11,275 posts)Ive been known to play myself - used to take out my frustrations on the game characters. Fortunately the vast majority of gamers can tell the difference between their games and reality
Klarkashton
(3,903 posts)Bluetus
(1,512 posts)Last edited Fri Sep 12, 2025, 09:39 PM - Edit history (1)
I'm not trying to nitpick the point, but only want to explain my queasiness. An assassination requires the victim be an "important person" and the killer be motivated by "political or religious reasons".
Kirk was important in certain circles, but until this week, probably only 2% of the public could state any significant part of his biography, so was he really "important"? I mean, when drug gangs kill the leader of rival gangs, they think the other leaders are important, but is that an assassination? We just call that a "gang killing", and ironically those were the last two words Kirk spoke on this planet.
And on motive, we just don't know. What we DO know is that many of these high profile gun murders are done by young white guys who have very little wisdom from life experience. They are highly impressionable and often bounce from one philosophy / extremist group to another looking for a home. I suspect that will turn out to be the case again with this murder. So can we really call that a political or religious motive?
I think it is better to call it what it is: a murder by yet another confused young white guy who never should have been within miles of a high powered weapon.
Johonny
(24,582 posts)And now there is blood on my hands . . .
Thank God the right will have something to blame for this shooting other than guns.
eShirl
(19,564 posts)Klarkashton
(3,903 posts)The whole thing looks very weird from start to finish.
Did he just live at home and do nothing else but play games? I guess we might find out, but maybe it will be sealed. Who knows?
lame54
(38,363 posts)Means another delay for GTA 6

they really need to fire these so called journalist, people been talking the games are the problem for decades.
aint shit gonna stop an industry that's bigger than hollywood,. and everyone these days outside the boomers play games.
we cant help the rw nutjobs decide to use real guns and carry out their shit show.
imagine thinking liberals, the peace doves are the violent ones LOL.
the violent democrats who want to force healthcare, childcare, good jobs,and all that
"commie socialist utopia" down our got dam red hotblooded gun toting maga throats.


GenThePerservering
(3,054 posts)who do you think was writing all that code during the Pong days?