8yr old 'Grand Theft Auto IV' Player Shoots 90yr old Woman in the Head

Now, will PF progressives call for the banning of these type of violent video games? Do we really want children to be programmed to become killing machines?

Is the American entertainment industry traumatizing and desensitizing children into almost being remorseless third world children soldiers?

 

Progressives? Remember Jack Thompson, the crazed GTA-obsessed attorney who crusaded against violent movies and video games?

A right-wing born again Christian.

It's clear who hates liberty.

 

You are supposed to be 18 to purchase that game.

Whoever bought it for him or let him play it should be prosecuted.

 

Yes, progressives. The gun-grabbers. Will they try to ban these deadly games?

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The Left would have none of that.

 

Um...you're not making the point you think you're making.

 

I'm responding to the charge in the OP that progressives/liberals are the ones with the propensity to call for video game censorship, when the facts say that the opposite is true.

 

this means we should be blaming the parents, right? This would mean calling on CPS to see if any of the other children, if tbhe parents have any, must be protected from an irresponsible parent. OR will the right simply say that the state is trying to control family values and how parents should raise their children?

 

You're not making the point you think you're making. You're so knee-jerk against the notion of anything which puts Progressives in a bad light - where they belong - that you've failed to notice that the OP WANTS Progressives to ban these harmful and damaging messages.

You, in other words, are exactly the type of Progressive which DonGlock is targeting.

Oh no. I used the word 'target'. Of course, the video game, which targets elderly people for bonus points...that's ok with you. Free speech, right?

But if a conservative chooses to use the word 'target' to focus on areas in which they are looking to collect votes, or a specific liberal politician that the GOP is looking to unseat with a coordinated campaign strategy, that gets your liberal undies in a bundle.

 

Get over yourself - I'm making exactly the point that needs to be made in response to this nonsense.

I'm against the knee-jerk labelling/blaming of anything PF rightwingers see as being an attempt by progressives to stamp on people's freedoms. The thread creator has provided no evidence to back up his claims that liberals are pro-censorship, and I can provide evidence to the contrary.

What on earth are you talking about? No he doesn't - he's using an article reporting a tradegy as a way of attacking progressives. He doesn't want them to try and censor video games; rather, he's accusing progressives of having a pro-censorship agenda.

Get your facts straight before you accuse someone else of being off the mark.

??? How do you work that one out?

He's targeting what he imagines to be pro-censorship liberals here on PF - the keyword being imagined.

Are you alright?

 

Lack of parenting.

 

But in this case, you are focusing on the wrong area. You need to focus on the parent who allowed their child to play a video game that was clearly not intended for that young of an age.

Second, if we hold conservative logic that violence in certain visual apparatuses causes crime, then this would mean banning any violent movies, porn movies, or violent television shows to all viewers because we clearly know that violence in these media outlets are clearly the cause for the crime, and not the individual or individuals who commit those crimes. We can even take your logic a step further that all progressives/Jews/blacks/Hispanics/immigrants are to blame. And that is white nationalist sheep dip.

 

People for the American Way are a liberal/progressive group closely affiliated with The National Coalition Against Censorship, which fights against any efforts to ban or censor video games, books, movies and TV programs.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_For_the_American_Way
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Coalition_Against_Censorship

 

Grand Theft Auto is not sold with a real gun, so maybe we should start with the jackass that left his gun out.

 

Exactly. My first question would not be where the kid got the video game, but why he was playing with a loaded gun.

 

There is no law that says that.

 

Nice pre-emptive strike Don - get the video game as the topic and not the negligence of the woman who left her own firearm where the kid could get it. Anyway, all this points to, for me at least, is that negligence when being a gun owner can do some terrible damage, responsible gun-owners will decry the woman's negligence. But then at 90 years of age the poor woman may have been unaware of the weapon's availability for the child.

 

I play Grand Theft Auto, looking forward to the new one coming out next month. My children were never allowed to see play or watch me play when younger.

Common sense that these games aren't meant for children. Stupid and lazy parents.

 

This post hits the nail on the head. I look forward to see what happens to the parent/parents in this case. When I was 7 years old, my father started teaching me gun safety and how to shoot his 22. pistol while taking me hunting. I learned at an early age to never leave a bullet in the chamber, to always check the safety and to never point it at a person. That was deeply instilled in me. This kid obviously was taught nothing about gun safetly and lacked common sense.

 

The problem here.....as in this thread....is a startling lack of logic on the part of the OP.

Why would a gun grabber call for a ban of video games in response to this tragedy?

Think.

 

Neatly ducking the fact an 8 year old had access to a loaded gun in a god fearing GOP county lol

 

no one will ever admit that these games and the violent tv content and rap music content helps to lead to this type of violence..but it does..and the home bringing also has a lot to do with it too...

 

NEITHER was the problem.

(*)(*)(*)(*) POOR PARENTING .

How about yall stop being dishonest about this

 

it was Both, but in both cases, the responsible party was clearly the parent here who did not parent their own children that could have avoided the whole situation altogether. . '

 

And that's exactly what it is.....

An 8 yr old rambunctious boy is left in the care of a 90 YR OLD?

He's given access to extremely violent video games and to top it off, he also has access to a loaded gun....

Talk about a disaster waiting to happen and it did.