MP slams video games regulation.
Labour MP Keith Vaz has a history of opposition to the sale of video games depicting violence in the UK. In 2004, he claimed the killer of a 14 year old boy had been influenced by Manhunt, despite the fact that the victim himself was the one who owned the video game.
He also linked Counter Strike to race shootings in Sweden in 2010, and to shootings ... [ read the full article ]
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Stop raising emotionally charged issues as a smokescreen to distract the media and voters from the real issues and spend you time assisting in the economic recovery. Tool.
Great, now owning a violent video game leaves you prone to becoming the 'victim' of violence?
Is there a lawyer in the house!?! Seriously! I'm not kidding here! I want to get everybody together here, right now... We can start a movement/petition/class action suit against the proper organizations (I mean all of them) & sue all the bastards for bringing this kind of shit to light.
Remember who told you about this... We'll call it something like, "Prohibition against asinine legislation". Its premise will be to imprison those that are driving individuals to do harmful crimes against humanity after reading about preposterous, non substantiated, non quantifiable or just plain stupid laws.
I really think we have something here folks. Don't piss this one away! I'm telling you! We could apply it to ACTA & similar legislation! We could save countries billions with this. Just think of the weight off of tax payers backs!
Mull it over... you know it could work. F*k with their own rules for once. Seeing as the governing body is pissing our money away as it is, let's let the people piss some of our own to our liking for once... RIGHT!?!
The Norway psycho also had a bible...might as well ban those first since the bible has led to more killings than anyone might attempt to link to all the games ever made. Maybe ban reading and writing too...and speaking as well. Better yet...ban the governments that create the wars as well as the sociological conditions that caused the Norway attacks.
Originally posted by KillerBug: The Norway psycho also had a bible...might as well ban those first since the bible has led to more killings than anyone might attempt to link to all the games ever made. Maybe ban reading and writing too...and speaking as well. Better yet...ban the governments that create the wars as well as the sociological conditions that caused the Norway attacks.
I'll take that beach front cave I was talking about some months ago... NOW!
