Australian Police Commissioner Blames Games for Knife Violence

[cerebus23]

knife crime because here in australia due to gun control if there is going to be an assault it would more than likely have to involve a knife and not a gun.

give this guy a few years he will moved down the list to bats, clubs, decently sized stones, hands, feet, harsh language.

really where do they dig these people up down there?

last game i can think of that had a knife as a central feature was the riddick games, other than that dead island you could get knives and such as a weapon.

but not too many games come to mind where a knife is a go to choice.

course in real life when your really horked off at someone and guns are banned in your country a knife might be a logical progression.

 

[Metalrocks]

and another one who has shit for brains again. if he thinks you rape women in GTA, he truly never played the game at all. actually, in what game do you rape women?? that japanese game jim was talking about?
amazing how these people get these high jobs if they dont even know society.

 

[FinalFreak16]

As someone who grew up with voilent video games I would agree that I have been somewhat desensitized to voilent imagery. However this is only true to voilent imagery on screen that isnt actually real.

I still get queezy seeing real blood and gore and generally feel sad when I hear about someones death. I wouldnt even think about mugging or stabbing someone.

It would take a lot more than video games or movies to make me feel otherwise. Maybe this guy should be looking into these kids living situations, upbringing and mental wellbeing.

 

[Formica Archonis]

"You get rewarded for killing people, raping women, stealing money from prostitutes, driving cars crashing and killing people,"

You missed the one about killing children in a concentration camp.

(No, really. Back during Columbine at least one article accused Doom of being about just that.)

 

[Lunar Templar]

Also, I want to know what kind of games this guy has been playing that rewards you for rape ' afaik, we don;t even allow them into the country.

guy talking out of his ass aside ... this ... where the hell is he getting rape from?

also, good to see he got verbally slapped by people that know what they're talking about before we got this bit of 'news'

 

[Shinsei-J]

I'm once again ashamed to live in Australia.
Just as we something right by adding an 18+ rating to game we get an uninformed douche blaming games for violence with less basis than ever before. So I'm thinking maybe just maybe that some of this violence could have something to do with the huge drinking culture in Australia that we still haven't adressed and refuse to. It seem far more likely that this asses argument. /rage
I'm just venting so don't twist your panties if you like a drink, I'm not pointing this at you, I'm pointing this at the government that points all the blame on one thing while never getting to real issues. (That may sound a little hypocritical)
Drinking was just an example.

 

[sethisjimmy]

You know, it's sad that the police commissioner blamed video games here, but on the bright side (and IMO it is really bright) we now have actual psychologists and doctors coming forward with solid evidence to defend video games in the mainstream.

 

[Terramax]

He's right.

Only last week I woke up one morning and decided to go on a vicious killing spree armed with a 4 foot long purple sex toy and whilst dressed as a pink cartoon cat wearing a cape.

Well, we've all been there before.

 

[antipunt]

Videogames are often targeted by political figures looking to justify social statistics

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OMG how have I not seen this before. I have been blind

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Aussie police commissioner: Shit, crime ticked up a little bit. Quick! Find something to blame it on that old people will agree with!

 

[Riobux]

Since when do video games reward rape? Lies and slander! *glove slap*

In before blaming an entire country for one guy.

My thoughts exactly. In fact, I'd go as far as to ask: When do you play a character who rapes someone else? Rape is one of those forbidden areas in video-games last time I checked.

 

[Roganzar]

Everyone knows knife fights are encouraged by stage performances like "West Side Story.".
They have a lot of that in Australia, right?

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

*sigh* THIS again.

there really isn't any need for discussion about these things now. Well, except for the part about Crocodile Dundee.

 

[soren7550]

Video games being blamed for a rise in knife crime? I know I've read this one before.

http://www.gamesradar.com/the-top-7-most-insane-things-videogames-have-been-blamed-for/

Yep. Right there at number six.

 

[SpectacularWebHead]

He's right.

Only last week I woke up one morning and decided to go on a vicious killing spree armed with a 4 foot long purple sex toy and whilst dressed as a pink cartoon cat wearing a cape.

On the other hand, I spend about 90% of my time swinging around the city on a web beating up supercriminals, so maybe the undisputed fact all videogames cause teens to perfectly and exactly copy them isn't a bad thing.

(Will be when the deadpool game comes out though...)

((I have also decide to start calling you Edmund))

 

[AlwaysPractical]

Now let us all chant for what will soon turn into another beautiful hate brigade... YAHTZEE YAHTZEE YAHTZEE!

 

[Someone Depressing]

Here's the real problem: People are crazy. They snap, go rouge, and they kill people - often without a motive in incidents such as the Batman screening.

Here's not the problem: Gullible kids, video-games, raunchy-sitcoms, rock and roll, or sex.

Oh, yeah, pressing a button on a peice of plastic really teaches someone how to use knives properly.

 

[ElPatron]

I don't remember a game that encouraged knife crime.

When a society is scared of tools like boxcutters/utility knives and people actually behave worse than cavemen on the streets, stabbing each other up, I have to say that they could be a little more civilized.

knife crime because here in australia due to gun control if there is going to be an assault it would more than likely have to involve a knife and not a gun.

The gun control only affected legal guns. The gun ownership rate dropped from 7% to 5%. BIG DEAL!

Even if they had not banned those types of firearms somehow I doubt that the Australian streets would be constantly terrorized by handguns.

 

[Dangit2019]

Now let us all chant for what will soon turn into another beautiful hate brigade... YAHTZEE YAHTZEE YAHTZEE!

Or you could change it a bit and turn it into the DKR chant:

Yahtzee, Yahtzee, ba-sa-ra,Yahtzee, Yahtzee, ba-sa-ra,