I've said it before and I'll say it again -- children have learned. They have learned from their parents, from teachers and most importantly, from the media, that videogames can be blamed for everything that is wrong in the world, so the finger doesn't have to be pointed at themselves. Now it's getting silly, with an entire panel of UK teenagers blaming videogames for knife crime. I am sure that opinion is uninfluenced, too.
Whereas US criminals have access to guns, British people unfortunately have to make do with knives when they want to kill someone for liking a different sports team. The only reason they use knives, however, is because of those evil videogames and other media. Videogames invented knife crime, you see, and that is why it happens.
"Ex-offender Bob Croxton, who’s now an outreach worker with Liverpool’s Criminal Information Bureaux, said his nephew had been stabbed to death at the age of 17," explains a report. "He asked the panel the best way to tackle knife crime and was told raising the age on films and computer games would stop young people committing crime. It said parents should take care of their children and stop them hanging around the streets all day and night."
Yes. Raising the age of violent media will make all knives in Liverpool suddenly turn into small pink penguins that sing "Come On Eileen" when asked, while teenagers will stop being the glue-sniffing, hooded, illiterate little spunkworms that they most assuredly are.
Children have learned.
Contest:
8:02 AM on 11.26.2008
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surely playing violent videogames would be keeping them off the streets? i guess they muyst all be playing GTA on their PSP's while they murder old ladies in the night.
This is almost non-news now.
Report when something _isn't_ blames on videogames instead.
Burberry-tagged soldiers carry Burberry-tagged weapons,
use Burberry-tagged gear.
Alcopops inside their bodies enhance and regulate their actions.
When asked to explain these actions, the response is unanimous: "It's not us, it's teh games!!11!"
War has changed.
When responsibility can be endlessly deferred, war becomes routine.
Its all about social standings and whats seen and encouraged as being acceptable in these circles.
Amongst the disaffected youth of today its cool to know nothing and be cocky and violent and as they get older the violence escalates, and because they know nothing they are dragged into crime.
The thing is that whole scene is self perpetuating so you could take films and games away and it would still just trundle on.
It all boils down to the parents, and the fact is, alot of these kids parents are crap and uninvolved with their children. Infact alot of them are products of the same scene, ending up with children at a young age then taking the 1st opportunity to dump them onto the streets so they can have more time to themselves and try to re-catcher their misspent youth.
Rant Over =P
#1_in_the_hood_G!!
I somehow felt I needed to add that to this discussion.
A)Wrong
B)Right
I also don't understand what is that whole chavs thing in UK. I'm kind of uneducated there but it's funny to think that UK have problems with knife killing(WTF, never heard of gunpowder) and US with gun killing while Canada got none of those.
Bravo my friend, bravo.
Oh, and they also seem to have learned a valuable lesson from our government - is something is wrong, there needs to be either a tax hike or an increase in the age limit. Great logic folks.
The problem with knife crime/chavs boils very simply down to bad parenting, a police force that steadfast refuses to set foot outside of thier Vauxhall Astras to patrol the streets of Britains big cities and the void left behind after Thatchers government stripped the country of any industry as a way of beating the unions leaving us as a country of low income shop and office workers. All of this has served to create a sub-class that has no sense of repsect or responsability.
Not that the parents need any help.
i blame knife crime on this picture because i feel like committing one now.
I think its a real shame that the social order in the U.K has broken down to these crumbs. Kids just want to belong and be cool, and will sell their soul for street credibility.
How do we heal U.K society. Stopping giving away free housing to those who see fit to get knocked up so easily might be a good start. The U.K government has meddled in family life so much that you can't even discipline kids anymore. Is it any wonder these kids are fearless of the law, and so create gangs of clueless me too hordes that rob folk and hurt others.
Lack of discipline and respect for anyone or anything = social disorder. When our government come down off their high horse and admit they were wrong, and restore the powers of discipline to parents, only then will things get batter. It all starts at home.
And like I always said when guns were banned in the U.K, crims would just use something more accessible, namely knives, hence the high use of them.
Exactly how many games can you name where knives are used. Cooking Mama maybe, more so than something like GoW2. And who would use a knife anyway, when swords do the trick much better? (let alone the fact that in violent games way to kill vary to more creative means).
These kids have been coached, ignore them.
>Most UK knife crime offenders only own Fifa, Pro Evo and Need for Speed games anyway, and as far as I know none of them contain knifes.
Simple then. We ban FIFA, Pro Evo and NFS. UK PROBLEMS SOLVED.
The thing that frustrates me most about this is they don't even PLAY games they're too busy just hanging round in the streets because even their parents can't stand the sight of them. As mentioned above if somehow they manage to squeeze in a quick session between vandalism, theft and general cockery, they only play football games like FIFA and Pro Evo or equally vapid toss like NFS. I suppose at a stretch the NFS could be blamed for them nicking cars and driving them round near my house at stupid speeds as I lie in bed whispering 'crash, crash crash' under my breath every time I hear the tyres screech.
If we do that we'll also have to limit anyone over the age of sixty from voting; so as to eliminate the senile, "The internet is full of porn! There sure are a lot of ugly people in your neighborhood. Oh, look at that one! What smells like mustard? Oh, my glaucoma just got worse! The President is a Demmy-crat!" old voters.
But in principle I agree, I'd just institute a knowledge based barrier instead of an age based one.
Video games are apparently on par with the pressure of blood lines in terms of influence confirmed.