Grand Theft Auto responsible for murders?...

i think there were murderers before games were invented. what if i saw an English person and stabbed them with a sword, saying i was reenacting a scene from the revolutionary war? could i get all these news reporters to start saying we should take George Washington off the dollar bill? cheddarbiscu1t

Thats a very good point IMO.

Also it's true because that probably would happen.

As shown by a user above, that some things do have effects on the people that play games like GTA4 but at the end of the day you cant really commit a crime and then blame it on the game. Because at the end of the day the game did not force him to do it or anyone at all. It would just take someone with the mind-state capable of doing it. I've heard cases of this aswell in america a kid and his friend broke into there dads cupboard, stole his rifle and went to the motorway (highway whatever) and started randomly shooting at cars, and the stupid kid hit a pregnant women in the leg. A few inches from her stomach. i DONT THINK YOU CAN BLAME YOUR REAL LIFE ACTIONS ON A VIRTUAL GAME, I've had some foguht of things but nothing to do with shooting other people of stuff like that.

I hate the fact people blame it on games, like seroiusly? Movies are much more violent then games and are more realistic too. They show bank robberies and how to do stuff a normal person won't think of. So does thta mean I can try those stunts and go try rob a bank just because I saw it in the movies and it looked really easy?zaidpass

Good one...NOT, movies are a passive experience while games are active. If you played GTA IV, you would know you dont just watch somebody rob a bank, you rob the bank

That is rediculus, i have heard this story b4 and it is so stupid. peolple dont just instantly become sociopathic murderers there as to be some background of violence and since gta 4 only came out in 2008 i dont think we can blame it on gta 4. whenever someone kills someone people who know them always say "oh they were so nice i dont know wat happend" but in reality tons of these ****ed up people keep completely to themselves untill finnaly they go crazy and no one else expects it.

plus zaidpass you'r right i hate racism and wish it would stop for good.

I honestly don't believe he even touched GTA IV at all. He was probably looking for a scapegoat to commit a crime, and what's better than what everyone else is using as a scapegoat for EVERYTHING?

Besides, a lot of people have GTA IV, millions in fact. How many of them have killed people in real life?

[QUOTE="zaidpass"]I hate the fact people blame it on games, like seroiusly? Movies are much more violent then games and are more realistic too. They show bank robberies and how to do stuff a normal person won't think of. So does thta mean I can try those stunts and go try rob a bank just because I saw it in the movies and it looked really easy?eagles_band

Good one...NOT, movies are a passive experience while games are active. If you played GTA IV, you would know you dont just watch somebody rob a bank, you rob the bank

and YOU have issues if you really are trying to make a clear comparison between Real life and something out of a fantasy. Let me guess, You come out of kung fu movies thinking you are a master now huh? That matrix has you!

[QUOTE="eagles_band"]

[QUOTE="zaidpass"]I hate the fact people blame it on games, like seroiusly? Movies are much more violent then games and are more realistic too. They show bank robberies and how to do stuff a normal person won't think of. So does thta mean I can try those stunts and go try rob a bank just because I saw it in the movies and it looked really easy?ShinUmbra

Good one...NOT, movies are a passive experience while games are active. If you played GTA IV, you would know you dont just watch somebody rob a bank, you rob the bank

and YOU have issues if you really are trying to make a clear comparison between Real life and something out of a fantasy. Let me guess, You come out of kung fu movies thinking you are a master now huh? That matrix has you!

Well he tried saying that movies you get to see people rob banks, and he obviously didn't play GTA, cause WE get to rob a bank. But obviously this kid was messed up from the start

sigh...

ever gta game that comes out someone brings this up

im not going to say that the game dosent cause murders, but 97% of the time the familys just want a scapegoat, so they balme it on the game.

How come no one gets upset at call of duty or Bioshock for that matter, for god sake in bioshock you can kill little girls!!! (great game though)

BTW to the little kids that play gta STOP SCREAMING IN THE MIC.

dude... use a line break every once and a while, it makes it much easier to read...

virtually every form of media has been blamed for deviant behavior, first TV, then music, then movies, now it's video games. There are always going to be messed up people on this earth and everyone is always looking for a scapegoat.

'Police said the youth, an obsessive player of "Grand Theft Auto", showed no sign of mental problems during questioning and had confessed to committing the crime because of the game.'

From an article. And wow... just wow...

He obviously had mental issues because he killed someone.

By the way, here's the article.