Grand Theft Auto Kills Three, Steals Car - My .40 Caliber PS2 (Page 4 of 4 ) After all, there are thousands of people, teenagers included, who play these games and do not act out in violent ways. I myself am a fan of violence in games, a.k.a. “murder simulators.” However, the only law that I have ever knowingly broken has been removing the tag from my mattress that says “Warning, do not remove under penalty of arrest.” That and several speeding tickets that we will never speak of again.
Not every kid out there who plays a violent video game will turn violent, but some do. The logic that sensors games is the same panic-stricken logic that we now hear post Columbine High School, “Not every kid who listens to Marylyn Manson will shoot up his school, but some do”.
This is specious reasoning if I have ever seen it. Quite frankly, it just doesn’t hold water.
But that, my friends, is not where Attorney Jack Thompson’s argument falls to pieces. No, simple logic dictates that Playstation 2 does not teach a person how to fire a gun, let alone a .40 caliber glock automatic pistol, let alone practice killing in the preferred method of two shots to the center mass and one to the head.
So how do you explain that Devin Moore was able to kill three people in an extremely professional manner? You kill a character on Playstation 2 by pressing a button. Devin Moore did it as if he had been trained. And no reasonable person is going to believe that button mashing on Playstation 2 can train you to be a marksmen. All button mashing will do is give you nasty blisters and a minor case of carpel tunnel syndrome. Criminal record or no, this person had obviously handled a gun before. He obviously knew how to shoot one. The real question is when did he do it, where did he do it, and for what purpose. Those are the real question the jurors in the case should be asking.
So, in the end, should we buy into the prosecution’s case? This seemingly innocent kid just snapped, killed three people like a professional killer, stole a police cruiser, and did it all because murder simulators ate his brain.
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