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Showtime, 9:00pm CDT

I think the season starts to get more interesting here.

Next week: The Apocalypse

Groucho

The anti-videogame idiots are hilarious. From time to time I'll see them ranting on some talk show about that "new fangled" game Doom with it's "realistic graphics", calling it a "murder simulator".

Michael Corvin

This one should be golden.

cungar

BREAKING

Omaha Gunman Egged on By Penn and Teller to duplicate video game

A 9-year-old male who was appearing on Penn and Teller's Bull**** turned the gun on shoppers at an Omaha, Neb., mall — killing eight people and wounding five others before turning an assault rifle on himself.

Wearing a camouflage vest and a black backpack, Robert A. Hawkins began firing as shoppers and employees at the Westroads Mall scrambled for cover in dressing rooms, clothing racks, offices and storage areas.

Hawkins had recently filmed an episode of Bull****.

Eight people were killed and five wounded before the shooter ended the horror by taking his own life. He left behind a note that read, in part, "Now I'll be famous."

Police Chief Thomas Warren said the shooting appeared to be random and that the dead included five females and four males, including the gunman. Warren promised more details in a news conference scheduled for Thursday morning.

Red Dog

I had a feeling the kid was going to cry. I've never fired a gun and probably never will, but it sure looked like he hurt himself (looks like it recoiled and hit him in the cheekbone) as he held it in an awkward position.

at the Triangle hypocrite.

A-aron

I only wished that they would have explained the reason for his tears at the end. I also figured the kick hurt his shoulder. Love the triangle guy who loved to shoot and collect outrageous guns.

PopcornTreeCt

I need to see this. I'm a pretty good shot at firing guns and I have video games to credit.

stingermck

Now that was a great episode

Deftones

It was a fantastic episode, but they didn't go after Jack Thompson enough. Not even a mention that he was disbarred recently. The point at the end about football/videogames was pretty poignant.

Michael Ballack

I don't think it's possible for Bullshit to make Jack Thompson any less credible than he already was.

Deftones

oh sure it was. there's a shit ton of stuff they didn't even bother focusing on. they semi-addressed that he cherry picks data from these "scientific" studies but there were a boatload of more examples of that they could've used to show he's an assclown.

Michael Ballack

Let me clarify. What I meant was that he has made such an ass of himself on cable news commentary shows already, that whatever they didn't include on BS is already well known about Jack Thompson.

Deftones

maybe not everyone knows who he is. he didn't come off as really a raving lunatic as we all know him to be. they really could've kicked him while he was down, but he seemingly got a free pass.

Spicollidriver1

Back when I would shoot guns even when you started to get too used to it you would get comfortable and let the recoil hit you a bit, and it hurts and I am big guy so if this was a little kid it had to hurt.

Michael T Hudson

The one and only time I shot an AR-15 it hardly kicked at all. It was a good episode.

dgmayor

Even though I agree the kickback probably hurt him, he was extremely nervous about firing it to begin with. The way he was dancing around you could tell just being around such a large (compared to him) real gun had him kinda freaked out.

Michael Ballack

Felt sorry for the kid. I'm an adult and scared shit-less of the power of real guns.

Wazootyman

I've done some research into this topic and a couple papers on it. Would have liked to see David Grossman involved. He's another anti-video game nut. One of his main cherry picked sources of data is the school shooting at Paducah, KY, is that the kids had something like a 96 percent hit rate, whereas a trained army sniper would only hit 90 percent, but since these kids played video games, they could outshoot a sniper. No mention of the fact that they were blindly firing into a group of people, that would make too much sense!

Did enjoy the episode. Didn't foresee the Triangle guy being a gun nut as well, especially since that would be one of the items to remove and break the triangle

Red Dog

I'm the same way. I have zero desire to fire a gun. Just not my thing.

Bluelitespecial

The kid didn't even have the rifle up against his shoulder like he should have, no wonder he cried he was too young enough to handle the recoil.

paradicelost

I know in basic i fired a M-16 and a SAW, and the only thing that hurt was the Drill Sergeant hitting me in the head because I went beyond the 3-5 second burst on the saw.
I may have to re-order showtime just so i can start watching the show again.

PopcornTreeCt

I thought the 9 year old shooting the gun was a bit of a gimmick. The idea on the other side is that 9 year olds that play violent video games start playing with real guns when they become 16 year olds. It was an interesting show with the interviews from people but that whole part with the kid took away some of the creditability.