Comments on: Grand Theft Auto: Knives And Losing Your Legs With Andy McNab http://www.anorak.co.uk/183447/tabloids/grand-theft-auto-knives-and-losing-your-legs-with-andy-mcnab.html Tabloid news for broadsheet readers Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:38:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: darrenwatson http://www.anorak.co.uk/183447/tabloids/grand-theft-auto-knives-and-losing-your-legs-with-andy-mcnab.html/comment-page-1#comment-302798 darrenwatson Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:35:13 +0000 http://www.anorak.co.uk/tabloids/183447.html#comment-302798 iv been thinking for ages that parents letting impressionable youngsters play the G T A games are allowing them to grow up thinking that the behaviour depicted withthin is acceptable and that their actions are without consequence, thus giving rise to today's ASBO culture and lawless society, i would like some one to try and compare the recent rise of knife crime and gang culture with the release of GTA games. im quite certain that gang culture in this country wasnt as bad as it is now before you could earn 'Respect Points' from performing gang related acts against other 'hoods' or post codes, in real life.just today ive seen a woman buyin GTA 4 for her son who was blatantly under-age, good, another potential crime statistic. Another point i'd like to raise is that it doesnt take a genius to read that prisons are full and long, deterring sentances are rarely handed out, this coupled with today's feral youths growing from a young age, possibly not having 'mature' parents, mimicking the consequence free behaviour of violent games leads me sadly to believe that we are indeed living in the lawless society of computer games. Or at least thats how it seems on my council estate. Darren Watson 28 unemployed. iv been thinking for ages that parents letting impressionable youngsters play the G T A games are allowing them to grow up thinking that the behaviour depicted withthin is acceptable and that their actions are without consequence, thus giving rise to today’s ASBO culture and lawless society, i would like some one to try and compare the recent rise of knife crime and gang culture with the release of GTA games. im quite certain that gang culture in this country wasnt as bad as it is now before you could earn ‘Respect Points’ from performing gang related acts against other ‘hoods’ or post codes, in real life.just today ive seen a woman buyin GTA 4 for her son who was blatantly under-age, good, another potential crime statistic. Another point i’d like to raise is that it doesnt take a genius to read that prisons are full and long, deterring sentances are rarely handed out, this coupled with today’s feral youths growing from a young age, possibly not having ‘mature’ parents, mimicking the consequence free behaviour of violent games leads me sadly to believe that we are indeed living in the lawless society of computer games. Or at least thats how it seems on my council estate.

Darren Watson
28
unemployed.

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