Teens go on shooting spree... Video game manufactuer to blame

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So who or what is really too blame? Guns? Video games? lack of parental control? Tragic as the incident is, it's madding that
some bottom feeders seek to assign blame elsewhere for the sake of a buck. Even more madding is that these two low-lifes will be out of "juvenile detention" in 3-5 years.

There's a bigger problem here, and it has nothing to do with guns or video games.

Deadly Inspiration? Teens Say Video Game Inspired Them in Deadly Highway Shooting

Sept. 5 — The family of a slain motorist has filed suit against the maker of a video game that two teens claim inspired them to shoot at passing cars on a Tennessee highway.
Grand Theft Auto, a video game that allows players to "fire" on people and cars in realistic, shoot-'em-up fashion, is a cash cow that propelled manufacturer Take Two Interactive to the top of the video game industry. For the middle and high school students who play the game for hours on end, it's a means of escaping the mundaneness of teenage life.

But for two stepbrothers, 16-year-old William and 14-year-old Joshua Buckner, that escape turned deadly earlier this summer. They told police they were emulating Grand Theft Auto on the night of June 25 when they took shotguns to Interstate 40, near their Newport, Tenn., home, and opened fire on vehicles...

..."The industry needs to cough up money so victims and their families can be compensated for their pain," Thompson said. "The shareholders need to know what their games are doing to kids and their families. They need to stop pushing adult rated products to kids. These products are deadly."

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[JohnKleeb]

1. funny I play that game and look where I am

[NekoChris]

2. NO

I hate these people.

I hate these people with such passion.

I do not like to blow up but these people, just, enrage me.

I beg, for someone, to say something to me, about video games and crime, to my face.

Where did the kids get the guns?
How did they transport them without being noticed?
Where were the parents?
How did kids of that age actually come to believe that they could EMULATE THE GAME AND GET AWAY WITH IT?

You know what happens when you shoot at cars in GTA? THE POLICE NOTICE.

The first few shots, yeah, no biggie. You can do it and the people around you scream and run away. If a cop sees you, you get 1 star which means light pursuit and arrest if caught.

If you actually kill a person in a car, that's 1-2 stars, easy. Because you have to get them out of the car, and then kill them, which takes alot of shots.

Shotguns can blow up a car in very few shots, and a blown up car is usually a 1 star MINIMUM, because it not only kills the guy inside, it kills the driver, it takes alot of power to do, and sometimes sets off chain reactions.

EVEN BY VIDEO GAME LOGIC these kids are IDIOTS. You don't go attracting attention to yourself by shooting off at cars, because you usually have a job to do and will end up pursued anyway. And the extra heat just makes it harder.

ON TOP of that, the only way you COULD get away with it would be a 'Kill Frenzy' which removes your stars if you succeed BUT that's a purely joke item.

The kids are idiots. Throw them in jail or fine the parents out the ass for being irresponsible. It's not the video game industry's duty to watch children. Kids get hurt playing football too but we're not suing the NFL are we?

MORONS. I HATE YOU ALL.

Edit: I don't hate you guys reading this, I only hate the people who blame video games for violence. Unless you are one of those people, in which case, I do hate you, very much, and all of the above applies.

[KG]

3. heh, the 'ol 'guns don't kill people, video games kill people' tack!

:)

[HawkerHurricane]

4. Giving lawyers a bad name

Unable to extort serious money from the kid's parents, they target the video game companies...

[rusk2003]

5. I will tell you who is responsible

The teens themselves I have played violent video games and watched violent movies they do not make you want to kill people. We are sending crazy people the wrong message. (go shoot people and we will blame it on guns and violent movies and games. We do have control over out emotions and bodies. Just yesterday I wanted to eat some food that was very unhelathy instead I chose not too and ate something more healthy.