jumppr said:
Sparky-Watts said:
Heard on the news tonight that "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" is now being used as a scapegoat in the murder of 3 cops by a teenager.....where does it end?
I don't believe that they should hold the video games totally responsible for this. For the most part it should be the parents and the values they instilled in their children that are to blame here. I've seen commercials for that game on t.v. and every time I see it I'm almost disgusted. I think it really sends the wrong message to kids. That message being "it's no big deal to steal a car and kill people to get away with". I for one will never let my children play those games, if any at all. I grew up playing Frogger and Pac-Man and it never gave me the idea to kill someone. Society is truly going to hell I think. One day not too long from now I think the earth is just going to implode.
Sorry....didn't mean to get off on a rant. :shock:
Yeah, but I grew up watching westerns and other shows where there was at least one person killed per episode, I played with toy guns, and pretended to shoot my friends as we played, yet still I don't have any desire to go out and commit murder. Why? Because despite the amount of violence and death I see on TV, in the movies, in video games, and yes, even in the Bible, I know it is wrong. And you can't tell me this kid didn't know the difference between right and wrong. He just didn't care. Most likely, he'd have killed someone whether he'd played video games or not. Society has got to stop finding scapegoats for their own faults! You can shelter your kids all you want from the violence and death around them, but if they're of the mindset to do harm, they will......no amount of Disney movies or "family friendly" programming will ever stop that. What did they blame murders and violence on before the invention of movies and video games? Murder is the oldest crime on record.
Guns don't kill people, people kill people....same thing goes for video games and beer vendors.