Oh for ****'s sake. I'm so tired of the games being blamed when these stupid parents can't do their damn job and PARENT. That Brian Docherty guy said that
These games are rated 18 and shouldn’t be played by children of this young age – but online gaming may be outside their parents’ knowledge. We need to look again at what we can do to stop this.
Well the parent's should have made sure that their child wasn't playing this kind of game! They should've made sure he didn't have easy access to a knife. They should have have seen the signs that their child was turning to violent behavior. I mean, as the article says,
his attacker – already a father – faces being locked up when returns to the dock later this month.
This kid is a FATHER. He has his own kid. How is not obvious that it's very clearly his upbringing that raised him this way? But we can't blame the parents in this culture anymore. No, it's the media. It's the video games, it's the rap, or the hip hop, or the metal or rock and roll. We can't blame the parents because we have to blame stuff that the authority figures don't understand, therefore, they have to find some way to demonize it.
I was reading the comments and I read one very interesting thing.
Yeah, because sports games are helping churn out tons of gifted athletes... hahahaha. Again, blaming an inanimate object.
Well. Why don't we have a lot more gifted athletes? Or gifted musicians? With as popular as Guitar Hero and all those sports games are, you would think those would have the same effect. But no. You'll hear the anti-video game people say things about how that doesn't translate to real life, yet somehow violence does. Go figure.
