Yeah, violent crime rates have dropped as video game sales have increased. The best way to decrease violent crime, if you believe that correlation equals causation, as the "such-and-such a mass murderer played video games" types apparently do, would be to hand out free games for everyone.
As for that kid... let me get this straight:
He took a gun, ammunition, a steak knife, and a hammer to school ... in order to re-enact a game which does not contain guns, ammunition, steak knives, hammers, schools -- or zombies that come out in the daytime. So, in fact, no element of the situation had any parallel in Minecraft.
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"Acting out a scene from a video game"
Either we have a seriously messed up child/parent, or that someone been playing with too many mods. Either way. Who actually kept such weapons in the house with access to the child? People un general just want to find something to blame instead of themselves
Reminds me of how parents got butt hurt over the ending of drawn to Life: The Next Chapter because their poor baby was traumatized by it
You should play both games because they're really good, but let's just say the ending, of The Next Chapter, has death involved. It was rated E, by the way.
First of all, it's not the game's fault, it's the parents fault for leaving their firearm in an unlocked drawer. If you want a firearm, you probably want a gun vault to go with that so your kid doesn't get into it. And plus Minecraft doesn't have guns in it unless you modify it, and the Xbox version doesn't have mods, so not the game, that's for sure... Even if he was playing Call of Duty or GTA or some other type of violent game, it wouldn't be the game's fault, it would be the kid's fault because he's thinking that it's all real life, or just that he's messed up in the brain, and it would be the parent's fault for not securing their weapons.
Oh my gosh. This stuff pops up everynow and then. It's all bull too. First off you can't blame the kid for anything down to the pinhead. It's the parents fault once again. Why would a child his age be able to get a hold of handgun in his own home? Because the parents don't think about safety and because of that, its the kid getting blamed? Second, the game of Minecraft isn't violent at all. Oh, and the kid isn't allowed to play any games anymore? Minecraft is rated E10+. The kid is the parent's responscibility and if there not watching him, it's there fault in this circumstance.
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This is just one big ol' huge "Fuster Cluck". Things like this are small but eventually get blown up to something much larger than reality by the media and today's society that is hungering for more drama and even more, things that they can blame their problems on. The only thing you can really do in this situation is turn your head and talk about it over dinner.
My opinion on this : How could he even think of this!? Minecraft isn't an action game its an adventure game, I would expect this if it was COD or something like that.
Modern culture is to blame things on them. Drug use was blamed on Jazz and Rock & Roll, Pen and Paper RPG's where blamed for religious deviancy like Atheism and Satanism. And now video games and film are being blamed for violence.
Next gen I think Television is going to be blamed for bad language (Again) and poor economy.
My opinion on this : How could he even think of this!? Minecraft isn't an action game its an adventure game, I would expect this if it was COD or something like that.
Most parents know zero about what the games their kids play are about or even that they are heavily categorised. And what little they know is what the kid tells them.
The reason this happened is because you let a little kid play gta stupid parents or stupid grandmother, and things like this wouldnt happen if you put the gun somwhere where he couldn't find it. It's all about irresponsibility.
And atheism is bad? Right I am offended by whoever believes that.
They should look up the games their kids are playing. Mine do.
In loads of places. Anything that deviates from the local religion is considered bad. Take the US and the Bible Belt. People will shout "spawn of Satan" after you if you claim to be anything other than Christian and "Poor lost fool" if you subscribe to Atheism and in many Islam controlled nations (I said "MANY" not "all") converting from it is illegal.
I'm fed up of bad parents blaming their kid's misbehaviour on video games. Video Games don't cause any kind of violence in children, unless they are crazy already. Sure, there may be a case of them 'desensitising' children to violent crime, but that doesn't make kids start committing them. And anyway, like many other people have said, if there were no guns allowed in the first place, then crazy people wouldn't be able to get very far. And for people who say 'I NEED IT 4 MAH SELF DEFENSE', face it: you don't need 5 assault rifles to defend yourself. Countries like England get along just fine with both the police and the public having no weapons. And the illuminati hasn't enslaved THEM, have they, conspiracy theorists?
no we dont need "assault rifles" to defend our selves, but why should we be denied them, the second amendment of the United States constitution says: "
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,shall not be infringed." I.E. you can have guns, swords, coffee cups, or flaming spike bags to defend yourself, but personally, im just fine with a shotgun :3And why the is it always about assualt rifles?
White coats to bind me, out of control
I live alone inside my mind
World of confusion, air filled with noise
Who says that my life's such a crime?
Trapped in this nightmare
I wish I'd wake
As my whole life begins to shake
four walls surround me
an empty gaze
I can't find my way out of this maze
'Cause I don't care
Fall in, fall out
Gone without a doubt, help me
I can't take the blame
They don't feel the shame
It's a madhouse
Or so they claim
It's a madhouse
Oh, am I insane?
My fears behind me, what can I do
My dreams haunt my sleep at night
Oh no, won't learn their lesson, white fills my eyes
And only then they see the light
and besides, criminals will just find ways to get guns anyway, if they want it they will get it, because they dont care what the law says, otherwise they wouldnt get a gun to kill someone any-damn-way! cuz oh yea, "ima criminal i want to rob a bank and shoot up the place, but oh wait, i gotta buy a gun first :3" and wait three or nine or how many ever days it is to get a ing gun nowadays! >:3
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White coats to bind me, out of control
I live alone inside my mind
World of confusion, air filled with noise
Who says that my life's such a crime?
Trapped in this nightmare
I wish I'd wake
As my whole life begins to shake
four walls surround me
an empty gaze
I can't find my way out of this maze
'Cause I don't care
Fall in, fall out
Gone without a doubt, help me
I can't take the blame
They don't feel the shame
It's a madhouse
Or so they claim
It's a madhouse
Oh, am I insane?
My fears behind me, what can I do
My dreams haunt my sleep at night
Oh no, won't learn their lesson, white fills my eyes
And only then they see the light
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"Acting out a scene from a video game"
Either we have a seriously messed up child/parent, or that someone been playing with too many mods. Either way. Who actually kept such weapons in the house with access to the child? People un general just want to find something to blame instead of themselves
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A HandGun
Bullets
SledgeHammer
Knife
Unless you are using a mod, that has nothing to do with Minecraft!!
Gaming is this generations Rock and roll and the role playing games equivalent of the 90's. (Pen and Paper RPG's not computer RPG's)
Venit, quessit, induravit.
You don't have to use something as a scapegoat but you'll do it anyway.
i'm just speechless.
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Tossing sledgehammers at passing students to imitate a Hammer Bro?
I hate my state...I really do. Usually when something just STUPID happens, it turns out it happened here.
My opinion on this : How could he even think of this!? Minecraft isn't an action game its an adventure game, I would expect this if it was COD or something like that.
Modern culture is to blame things on them. Drug use was blamed on Jazz and Rock & Roll, Pen and Paper RPG's where blamed for religious deviancy like Atheism and Satanism. And now video games and film are being blamed for violence.
Next gen I think Television is going to be blamed for bad language (Again) and poor economy.
Most parents know zero about what the games their kids play are about or even that they are heavily categorised. And what little they know is what the kid tells them.
Venit, quessit, induravit.
The reason this happened is because you let a little kid play gta stupid parents or stupid grandmother, and things like this wouldnt happen if you put the gun somwhere where he couldn't find it. It's all about irresponsibility.
In loads of places. Anything that deviates from the local religion is considered bad. Take the US and the Bible Belt. People will shout "spawn of Satan" after you if you claim to be anything other than Christian and "Poor lost fool" if you subscribe to Atheism and in many Islam controlled nations (I said "MANY" not "all") converting from it is illegal.
That's it, they SHOULD but they don't.
Venit, quessit, induravit.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." I.E. you can have guns, swords, coffee cups, or flaming spike bags to defend yourself, but personally, im just fine with a shotgun :3And why the is it always about assualt rifles?
White coats to bind me, out of control
I live alone inside my mind
World of confusion, air filled with noise
Who says that my life's such a crime?
Trapped in this nightmare
I wish I'd wake
As my whole life begins to shake
four walls surround me
an empty gaze
I can't find my way out of this maze
'Cause I don't care
Fall in, fall out
Gone without a doubt, help me
I can't take the blame
They don't feel the shame
It's a madhouse
Or so they claim
It's a madhouse
Oh, am I insane?
My fears behind me, what can I do
My dreams haunt my sleep at night
Oh no, won't learn their lesson, white fills my eyes
And only then they see the light
-Joey Belladonna, Anthrax
White coats to bind me, out of control
I live alone inside my mind
World of confusion, air filled with noise
Who says that my life's such a crime?
Trapped in this nightmare
I wish I'd wake
As my whole life begins to shake
four walls surround me
an empty gaze
I can't find my way out of this maze
'Cause I don't care
Fall in, fall out
Gone without a doubt, help me
I can't take the blame
They don't feel the shame
It's a madhouse
Or so they claim
It's a madhouse
Oh, am I insane?
My fears behind me, what can I do
My dreams haunt my sleep at night
Oh no, won't learn their lesson, white fills my eyes
And only then they see the light
-Joey Belladonna, Anthrax