GTA Fan Arrested for Attempted GTA

**dejkirkby** · September 21st, 2006, 21:40

Dude you may get a warning for the double and triple posting.

**Nikolaos** · September 21st, 2006, 21:48

rofl, effin idiot.. your suppose to carry guns with you when you go steal a car :P DUh!

**Shilo** · September 21st, 2006, 22:00

I bet you in a few weeks, good ol' Jack Thompson will be talking about this. It really gives violent video games a bad name

**Basil Zero** · September 21st, 2006, 22:02

LMAO LMAO LMAOA

What an idiot!

**John Vattic** · September 21st, 2006, 22:03

When I said stupid people trying to run the country are not funny, I was talking about people like Jack Thompson.

**F9zDark** · September 21st, 2006, 22:19

Last summer I read an article in PC Gamer that the author conducted research about violent crimes and gaming.

Using Federal Department of Justice information, that is free for the public to view, he graphed when games came out and the rate of violent crime among teens and adolescents. He saw that there was a REDUCTION in the amount of violent crimes being commited by this age group when video games became more and more part of mainstream society.

Anyone who believe that violent games leads to violent lifestyles are retarded. Video games are just scapegoat because society doesn't want to blame bad parenting (which is probably 80% the cause of crime; its not surprising that children that are abused, neglected and not educated commit crimes.)

My father was in the Navy and an avid gun owner, having his own reloading shop in the garage. I have had violent games all my life and never once did I goto school and blast the hell out of anyone, steal a car, or other commit an act of violence against an innocent person (I say this because I have been in a few fights in my life, nothing to blame 'video games' over though).

He didn't baby the issue either when it came to his guns, first he told me flat out, that guns kill, and secondly he told me that if I touch his guns, I'll get the belt, and I knew damn well what that felt like and didn't want to go there...

Point is, society needs to stop this ridiculous behavior. All societies of the past have their crusades against an ideal or thing that just goes beyond all rational thought. However, I thought that in the 21st century, we were past all that.