"A couple of days ago a Belgian kid went to the city, bought himself a gun and shot three people ( of which 2 immigrants and one 2 year old baby ).
They were racist killings by a person who was going to kill himself but told his friends he would first try and take 10 others with him.
Now suddenly all the newspaper have headlines "Killer reenacted videogame!". In which they say how he often played GTA San Andreas, a game in which you have to go to a shop and buy a gun after which you have to kill people. And because this crazy son of a ***** also went to a shop and bought a gun the politicians and journalists say it is the same as playing the game.
Now what kind of logic is this?
What about his education, what about how he was bullied at school, what about he could walk into a store and buy a gun ( he even got a quick shooting and reloading lesson from the store clerk ), what about no one helping him mentally through all these years, what about .....
It never ceases to amaze me how people can blame videogames for everything bad in the world. I guess Sadam, Bush and other world leaders played Stratego too much when they were kids."
That is what iantje wrote as a blog. However i hate how all the gamers around the world are like "the media are so stupid it can't be GTA it must be everything but the computer games". Look, just because we don't get affected at all doesn't mean that everyone isn't.
Sure, it's only a coincidence that this kid played GTA often where he could purchase guns, and then did the exact same thing in real life. Or is it? Did you ever think that this guy might have played GTA so much that it became real life for him?
I've played GTA before and then when i'm driving i joke about how i sometimes pretend that i'm going to swerve into some pedestrians to scare who i'm driving with.
Counter-strike is not responsible for any deaths and so on but i think GTA could well have been a big contributing factor to this kid doing this. People need to start accepting this.