Teens murder, blame Grand Theft Auto - your thoughts?

people will blam video games on anything that happens. i mean some on klls some one, IT WAS AN IDEA FROM GTA!!!! some on gets arrested I GOT THE IDEA FROM MIDNIGHT RUN!!!!! i mean they blam there stupidity on anything that they can think of, from movies, to songs, to video games, to t.v. I started playing violent video games in the 3rd grade. now im in the 9th. If i get in trouble for something i take it as my responcibility not some video game'ss, or movie's, or song's or tv show's. The world needs to start taking responcibility for there actions and not blam it on something that was made to entertain people.

I totally agree.

Every one says that whats wronge with kids today is video games and music. That has nothing to do with it. If a kid gets in trouble its becuase of their own stupid actions. It wasnt some video game character out there getting arested it was the kid!

the parents and kids should know that that little M on the box is not going to protect them. the parents will say "well i didnt know it will corupt my kid" and the kids will say "my mom bought it for me and it corupted me" the parents should know if there kids should buy the games, its not the game makers fault. they didnt know that some parent was going to buy the game with the little M on it for there kid. the game makers made the game for adults and mature people! HENCE THE REASON IT WAS RATED MATURE!

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Originally posted by hurricaneone
Maybe the label is there to satisfy the law, not to have the parent read it. I think there's many a person who will confess to not reading the small print etc, if only because they don't notice it's even there, after years of practiced selective ignorance.

We are well programmed to pass over that which we don't deem absolutely necessary.

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Im 15 now...I have been play some sort of video game since I can remember...literally.

Since I was about...i dunno 10 lets say...I have really been in to them and have a larg collection. Obiously I dont buy my own games(Im broke)...my parents do. I actually tell my parents its a good idea to read the lable. Regardless of the rating it has been given my parents will usually buy it for me. Do you know why? becuase they trust that they raised me well enough that I wont go around stealing cars and shooting people. They know that a game is just that...A GAME...not real life.

So if you ask me its not the video game or the video gaming industry thats to blame. And it may not even be the parents fault. But it is the person(s) involved in the crime that need to take the blame.

Exactly. If a parent is dumb enough to buy a game for their kid with a M rating then its thier fault. Aspessially if they dont find thier kid the least bit mature for thier age. Some things that may INVOLVE video games are not always CAUSED by them. for example... If a parent buts a 5 yr old a M rated shoot 'um up game its not the game creators fault if the child turn out violent. Its the parents fault.

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Originally posted by FF_Girl


Obiously I dont buy my own games(Im broke)...my parents do. I actually tell my parents its a good idea to read the lable. Regardless of the rating it has been given my parents will usually buy it for me. Do you know why? becuase they trust that they raised me well enough that I wont go around stealing cars and shooting people.

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i agree with you, i tell my parents what its about, if they thought i was going to be a murderer im sure i wouldnt have any violent games

Its deeper than that. The child gets neglected by the parent, and subliminally the music/games becomes an escape from reality. This, in turn, perverses the child's mind, and the escape becomes part of the child's reality and this in turn leads to the media being considered acceptable behavior.

but how is a game producer going to stop this, why is Rockstar north going to get in trouble for a bunch of kids that did what they saw. Rockstar's only way of preventing it is by that little M that no parents seem to notice. They cant have some guy that works there stand in the store and yell at a kid that picks up the game! If anyone should get in trouble it should be the stores that sell the game or the parents that were ignorant enough to buy the game.

I still say blame the parents. It's their job to set the precedence of what's wrong, right, acceptable, and what not. kids are going to make mistakes, no doubt. but that's negligence on the parents part.

if a kid has no life except for the one they live in a video game, such as GTA, then thats what they will want to be like...they will modle thier life after that instead of "normal" things that their parents should have been teaching/showing them.

exactly, the parents are at fault, you cant say its anyone elses. the parents are the last line of defence, and they are the greatest, which wold you rather listin to, some guy behind a counter that is like 18 years old who told you you cant buy the game , or would you listin to your parents who said dont buy that game

if the kid has nothing but a video game as a role model, then that means the parents aren't role models.

parents just look at the worst thing that they can say caused it, why cause they know they are wronge, like if the worst thing is a can of soda they will blame that, but the worst thing now and days are video games, so they just point there fingures

and you can call that person a parent? unwilling to admit to making mistakes? and that's supposed to be a virtue to pass to a child... the inability to take responsibility for your own actions?

that's the sad state of things now. if you get in trouble, blame the next closest thing.

To me the whole point to a video game is that it is based on some thing that you would never be able to do in realy life.

Such as fantasy games or games like GTA. Those are things that (Generally) dont happen in real life, or shouldnt happen. in a fantasy game people can fly and do magic which doesnt actually happen in the "real" world. So when a kid tries to imitate one of the DOOM games and walks around with a big gun shooting people its becuase something in the kids head isnt right. Whether it be becuase of there home life or whatever...its not the games fault. the game is there to be fun and entertaining without actually hurting someone or trying to fly of a building and dodge bullits

the parents think that at one time there kid was an angel, maybe that was before they only talked to there kids 5 minutes, and that was when they were fighting over what to watch on t.v. They wernt there to be a role model for the kid.

yeah, video games are like taht, they can make a kid superman, or they can make a kid have the fastest car, or they can make a kid a murderer, BUT THAT IS ALL SUPPOSED TO BE ONLY ON THE T.V.! kids are stupid and try it, so A. they end up dead or B. They end up making people dead

this is the most tired topic in the world and it is one that can be answered with common sense. kids should be taught basic right and wrong from their parents. if a kid is raised in a good environment with proper care then the problem of videogames influencing them is present. of course we always have the psychos out there that will do it anyway but then if you take away videogames they will get their ideas from somewhere else. take away all media and freedom of expression will take a hit plus they will still get their ideas from somewhere else. bad influences will always be present in our society no matter what steps are taken. so eliminating videogames will only destroy an art form and censoring them will only please angry soccer moms looking for somewhere to blame their bad parenting on

exactly gerbick blame the next closest thing it is americans favorite pastime.

((lol about the soccer mom)) just look at the other games there are, In mario you jump on mushrooms, does that give me the idea about smoking drugs and shrooms. Pokemon is pets battleing, does that teach me to train my dog to attack other ones, Grand turismo, does that teach me to try to race my parents car. NO! and if that stuff does happen to kids they dont think of that. They only think of the worst most contriversal game, Grand Theft auto. The parents think of them selfs. they think there kids are angels that could only have been killers if they played video games. There friends couldnt have mad the kid evil, movies definatly couldnt, the news cant eather, IT MUST BE THOSE DARN VIDEO GAMES!!! my parents would just blame my own idiotousy if i chose to kill someone, they wouldnt point there fingure at the games

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Originally posted by hfbarker807
exactly gerbick blame the next closest thing it is americans favorite pastime.

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funny. I've lived in Germany and Japan. I saw it there too.

Terrible parents isn't an American invention, unfortunately.