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but its total stupidity, the game has been on the market for how many months ? also there are other violent games out there aswell are those going to be banned ?

i think the stores trying to score brownie points here by taking or 'reviewing' the games position, nanny state!!! :rolleyes:

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Well cynical old me here realises that.Be thankful that those who buy games are the ones who will get the final say in what is or is not banned.Money still talks.If they could still make the same money by not selling violent games they would probably switch in an instant.

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i have played many games in my early years, although hardly and i mean rarely do these days but im no physco, neither are people who i know grew up in an era where games changed and graphical violence and decapitation started to become the norm, they dont show any violent tenedencies....

as i said if its in you something will trigger it.

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Err, where I come from 36 - 14 = 22...!

Also those were the ages of the mother and the victim. The assailant was 17, but it doesn't say how old his parents are.

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I blame the breakdown of the family unit, the lack of moral stance and parental discipline. The lack of parental censorship, the lack of stoical effort to make a relationship work before giving up, parting and the effect that causes on the child (not always, I know). The lack of realisation of the responsibilty that parenthood carries.....essentially I blame his parents.

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I did say it was likely to be Daily Tabloid reasoning, and as you've demonstrated so clearly, it certainly had all the logic of tabloid reasoning. :) I concede defeat to you this time.

Now is it too late to delete the original post to spare me any further embarassment?

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I still remember them blaming Rambo after the Hungerford incident...

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Games and movies dont cause murders, unsupervised care of mentally ill people, people with anger problems and down right psychopaths cause murders.

You can sit here and blame the movies and games, but i'll just point out that murders happened way before games and movies. And some of the sickest ings ever to happen in history appeared before movies like Rambo and games like Manhunt etc.

People should wise up that these things dont make others kill, the people doing the killing were unbalanced in the first place.

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i saw channel 5 yesterday come out with a "do you think violent video games should be banned" phone poll

talk about kneejerk reactions :rolleyes:

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thats intelligent programming for Channel 5 lmao :D

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yeh......... hold on arent they worst offenders of putting sexually themed and violent programming on terrestrial tv ? maybe i could start CF thread "should channel 5 be banned for the increasing violence and sexual content" :D :p: :LOL:

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Was there an option for "no, I think stupid polls like this should be banned"?! :rolleyes:

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Apparently the game wasn't owned by the killer, it was owned by the victim!!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08..._murder_claim/

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LOL, that's going to cause some red faces.:)

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