Video games don’t cause violence, people do |
An18 year old social degenerate who took an officer’s sidearm and fatally shot three victims decided to play the videogame blame game defense at trial but fortunately the jury didn’t buy it. He was also allegedly abused as a child (that probably had a lot more to do with this, if true).
Since the now convicted murderer apparently doesn’t have any money, the victim’s family are going after the nearest deep pockets in sight: the videogame publisher which just happens to be Rockstar. 
The victims’ families have filed a civil suit against the video game manufacturer and two stores, claiming Moore killed the three after repeatedly playing “Grand Theft Auto III” and “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.” No trial date has been set in the civil lawsuit.
I do feel compassion for the families of the victims, really I do, but it wasn’t GTA Vice City or any video game that caused this young murderer to derail. No more than a few badly hidden sex scenes in the game will cause someone to become a rapist.
Wonder how long it will be before some freak kills someone by locking the victim in a room and starving the victim to death and then blames it all on The Sims?. Seriously.
These type lawsuits remind me somewhat of the teen who killed himself listening to Ozzy Osbourne’s Suicide Solution.
Look, people commit violence against other people. Not videogames, music, movies, etc.
Whatever happened to personal responsibility? Sad.
Did this post make you go hmm?
(8 votes, average: 3.88 out of 5)
Loading ...
[…] ath
music — by TDavid @ 10:28 am
Maybe I should take it back, music can be responsible for violence. My goodness, I wasn’t aware the iPod could — or eve […]
Pingback by Make You Go Hmm: » Woman uses iPod to bludgeon boyfriend to death — August 12, 2005 @ 10:30 am PST
i play violent video games all the time and i never fell like killing anbody
Comment by phil — November 29, 2005 @ 1:09 pm PST
Its crazy. I think people are just trying to use video game violence as an excuse. In the modern politically correct world they are getting away with it as well. I have just played a football game, but I have no desires to go out into the rain and start kicking a football.
Comment by betting tipster — January 7, 2006 @ 8:40 am PST
I play violent video games too. But I dont hurt any one.
Everything that people do is a choice they make. No one can force you or make you do anything.It(games)may give you ideas but you have to decide whether or not to act on them.
Comment by Ryan — May 15, 2007 @ 2:13 pm PST
There is not a sane person alive who has played a video game and believes that doing so could push somebody to extreme violence. What is fascinating is that, in this world with so many shades of grey, that 100% of the blame-gaming crowd is either thoroughly dishonest or thoroughly ignorant. Nothing to be done about the first group, but the second group is pathetic, unable to see what is so obvious to those with even the most trivial experience in the subject.
Comment by Dominic — June 25, 2007 @ 11:01 pm PST
I play voilent games all the time (dead to rights, grand theft auto, siphonfilter, just to name a few) and i have never hut anyone i don’t even get into fights at school. Its stupid to blame a game on violence, and all games have some form of violence in them ( like my sisters old playstation games) Do thay accuse Cartoon Violence of hurting people? i think not. its compleatly the persons fault.
Don’t blame the game.
Comment by gamergirlTopaz — October 28, 2008 @ 11:33 am PST
[…] not in the crowd who believes videogames lead to violent crime (see: Video games don’t cause violence, people do), but it’s interesting to note that besides states with high density and unemployment, […]
Pingback by Wii searches favored by high unemployment U.S states, Xbox 360 by obese, PS3 by same sex couples » Make You Go Hmm — December 4, 2008 @ 11:52 am PST