Gaming appears to have been an important part of Mr. Loughner's life. In the 7th grade, he and a friend, Alex Montanaro, began playing the multiplayer online games Starcraft and Diablo, which featured complex virtual worlds where players assume roles and play against other people around the globe, Mr. Montanaro said in emails over the weekend and Monday.
Around the 9th grade, recalls Mr. Montanaro, Mr. Loughner abandoned the old games and started playing Earth: 2025, now called Earth Empires, a text-based game in which players assume the form of a country and develop its economy. Players form clans and battle other clans.
The game includes social networks built around the clan alliances—private online forums in which players conversed. In those forums at that time, Mr. Loughner often spouted conspiracy theories and got into heated debates with others, according to a forum participant who has been reading Mr. Loughner's posts for years. Mr. Loughner originally played under the pseudonyms Cries and Cry. At various times he also used the aliases Heroin, XTC and Erad, according to two people familiar with the matter, and played for various clans.
Yup, there is nothing like an online text game about forming countries and developing its economy to make someone go on a shooting rampage. I would be willing to bet that some media person is going to talk about Call of Duty and how it is so violent and it might have got the guy to kill and other nonsense. Just like how Doom somehow got the Columbine shooters to do what they did.
For the record he played Earth Empires and that game did not get him to kill anyone. He killed those people because he was insane and after a jury trial he will be given a lethal injection and then buried in an unmarked grave on the grounds of the prison. Too bad no one in the crowd had a concealed carry permit and gunned this freak down so that they could have saved the state millions to house and feed this animal before he gets to be "dead man walking."
And before the liberals rush out to ban guns. This crazy could have very well just rammed a truck into that crowd as he did shoot at them. The focus should be on mental health and getting these guys locked up and treated before they commit an atrocity like this. I think there are just too many crazy people out there and the government should set aside some funds to help them.
However, I did find that this part of his online posting links him to that other scumbag Cho who shot up Virginia Tech:
On May 5, he started a thread titled "Talk, Talk, Talking about Rejection." He solicited stories of rejection by the opposite sex. The next day he wrote, "Its funny...when..they say lets go on a date about 3 times..and they dont....go..." Three days later, he wrote, "Its funny when your 60 wondering......what happen at 21."
Yup, rejection from girls seems to set these crazies off. In my opinion if Cho met a decent girl and was made to see a good psychiatrist that Virgina Tech rampage might not have happened. I think the same thing about this Loughner scumbag. If he met a decent girl as well as easier access to mental health facilities those 9 people might be alive today.
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