Will the Virginia Tech Massacre Sabotoge GTA IV?

What do you think? I just heard Dr. Phil making the connection on CNN.

 

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Who cares?!

GTA is just a game.

Its release or ban cannot bring back those who died in shooting.

 

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indeed.
it cant be banned anyhow.
people will just find other ways to get ahold of it.....can anyone say "Canada"?

 

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But it's ban may prevent those who die in a future one. That the point activists are trying to make.

 

http://www.gta.org/

 

Truly a world event

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_III

 

Grand Teft Auto - Game where player starts as a footboy of local mob leader, killing for him, driving prostitutes, stealing cars, making porn movies, etc. Point of the game is to become a 'counsilliere' with own business at the end.
Someone will say it's a synonim for violence.

For all brutality in this life... Blame the GTA.

Yes, I know that. But, banning of this game won't prevent anything. Banning one game or movie, book or song, won't cure the rotten flesh of society.

I think the key is in the family.

But, we tend to seek roots of the problems on the remote roads, not in our own yards.

 

Shall we all read about moral panics again?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic

 

As long as they release the game in Europe.

And in America they should just arrest every Asian trying to buy the game.

 

I guess!


Little digression:

I worked in one game club during my college education. Not even one kid took the gun after playing CS.

I made a survey (for my own fun) about behavioral patterns of those kids in CS and real life; who is brave, coward, not too much smart, etc.
I wanted to see connection between the way how they play and their behavior in real life.

It's quite similar.

Anyway, the best shooter, with the most kills, was the kid who was table tennis junior champion two years ago and also excellent in mathematics.

Second kid was a winner of a local junior chess championship.

Third... Well, he was sneaky coward... In CS and in real life. But, he never took a gun and shoot someone.

Others were great kids also. They're in high school now and they lead normal lives.


So, I think that blaming the video games for real life violence is nonsense.
But, we cannot change anything now.

Human lives are the most important, and there is nothing that can recompense the loss of those kids to their families.

And,for the prevention of future violence. I'll say again. We are on the wrong road. Video games are not the key.

 

If it does thats BS....videogames aren't the cause that guy was just real angry.....

 

As a Canadian I take that as a compliment.

It's funny, I used to want to move to America for some of your extra freedoms. Needless to say I don't want to move anymore

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Well I like GTA games(open ended games of any genre), but I don't really like "shooters". They are boring to me. If this circus makes more of the talented developers make other games(flight sim, olde school adventure, strategy, etc) that aren't made with quality anymore, then it might all work out in my opinion.

 

Banning a video game won't prevent violence of any sort. Get a copy of "Death Scenes", published by Feral House to get a look at what people, children included, were capable of before video games, gangsta rap and all of the other things that allegedly drive people to kill each other. They say that these things are 'training grounds' for such acts, but then where did Ed Gein learn his craft? From Pat Boone records and pinball machines? Maybe too much 'Howdy Doody'? H. H. Holmes never saw a horror-genre game, I can guarantee that, but that house he built could have inspired a whole series of games and a movie on the same level as 'Saw'.

Some people are just screwed up. They can't deal with reality, so other people have to die. The activists will point to whatever cause may be handy. Remember when it was comic books that were driving America's youth to Hell in a handbasket? They used to claim that marijuana was the most violence-inducing drug in existence as well. (Hey, who's smoking what here?) Sometimes the news likes to make much out of the presence of such video games in a shooter's possession. I think enough of these games are widely owned that you might as well say that they all owned T-Shirts. Would T-Shirts be the common link?

You can't stop people from snapping when they fail to deal with life the way the majority of us do. I enjoy shooting games, but like most people, when I turn them off, they're done. Anyone who doesn't turn off the game in their mind when they walk away from the monitor has a deeper problem than mere video games.

 

it was a compliment to canada's reasonable reputation.
since ive moved away from the states, ive gotten a different perspective on the totalitarian way in which people are brainwashed.

george carlin said it best: "The only freedom Americans have is illusion. The power to make a bunch of meaningless decisions from a bunch of shitty options."

 

I find there is a basic nature to all things, that being interest. If the games not very fun or just plain bores you then nobody will play it. As we stand now GTA is exciting, fast paced, and offers people a way to blow off steam other than shooting their friends. I myself have never played it, I'm into Donkey Kong Country type games and stuff like that.

I'm trying to get into Half Life 2, I even bought some strategy guides for all the games it has, the problem is after shooting everybody it's kinda just boring me now :L I will continue this on my weekend and hopefully become more drawn into it.

 

Isn't Rockstar a UK based company?

 

ding, ding, ding! we have a winner folks!

 

I blame hand guns and videogames.
If we were a police state, this wouldn't have happened.

 

That's kinda' like blaming shovels for the holes in the ground, ain't it?

I have to admit, however, I often wonder why "killing games" are so damned popular with kids today. Why is it that all the popular games seem to be of the violent, killing type games?

Unless it was a very damned controlled "police state", things like this would still happen. A police force can only RE-act, seldom can they be pro-active against something like spontaneous murder or one-time mayhem.

Baron Max