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.
