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game violence in news again
A 13-YEAR-OLD thug slit the throat of another schoolboy after an argument about violent video games they had been playing.
The pair had met a few months earlier while playing Xbox game Gears of War 3 online.
But they had an apparently trivial fall-out that ended with the 14-year-old victim being brutally slashed.
A judge was told yesterday police believe 18-rated games such as Gears of War could have been “a factor” in the attack.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/xbox-live-gears-war-3-1866681
came across this story while going through the paper this morning, no mention in the story apart from one sentence at the end saying it is an 18 game and children shouldnt be playing it. no blame for the parents buying their kids a game that they shouldnt be playing and to be honest no actual link to the game being the cause of the violence except the police's opinion.
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Yeah, no mention of parents or that. The kid sounds like a right nasty little shit, the sort of person that society wouldn't miss at all if he just didn't exist, heck society would probably gain. I remember when I was really young getting chased by a teen with a knife around my local street, I was terrified, but that sounds horrific, feel sorry for the kid who got hurt.
Computer games are an easy scape goat, always have been always will be.
Given that I love my games so much, it makes me laugh how people think they contribute to these killings.
LOVE IT !
I'm so glad Scotland is quite a far bit away from Kent, cos that's quite a worrying statement
Don't worry, i'm from Scotland too, and i'm an absolute sweetheart. But i did once have a female stalker from Gravesend, so...swings and roundabouts, really.
Oops that may have came across as a little psycho.
I don't love the killings .... but I enjoy people stupidly blaming games for them. Their stupidness makes me laugh.
I'm not in Britain anymore, you're all safe