And in today’s roundup of games being blamed for everything, Australian police commissioner Andrew Scipione points the big game blame-finger at the rising incidence of knife crimes in New Soutth Wales.
“How can it not affect you if you’re a young adolescent growing up in an era where to be violent is almost praiseworthy, where you engage in virtual crime on a daily basis and many of these young people (do) for hours and hours on end,” he told the Telegraph Australia.
“You get rewarded for killing people, raping women, stealing money from prostitutes, driving cars crashing and killing people,” he said. “That’s not going to affect the vast majority, but it’s only got to affect one or two and what have you got? You’ve got some potentially really disturbed young person out there who’s got access to weapons like knives or is good with the fist, can go out there and almost live that life now in the streets of modern Australia. That’s concerning.”
He makes some thought-provoking points, perhaps, but it’s also probably worth remembering that games rated for adults are not currently allowed to be sold anywhere in Australia. Unless he means kids are going out on stabbing sprees after a few games of Tiger Woods Golf. Actually, I’d probably go out on a stabbing spree after a few games of Tiger Woods Golf.
This is how I handle annoying commuters during rush hour.
No! You can’t borrow my bike to go to the shops!
Source: VG247
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