This cop is an idiot. I mean... seriously?!? Blaming a near-nation wide riot on a video game?
And these guys are being paid as professionals in law enforcement and criminal investigations?
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Unless you're a criminal.
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
There is 2 causes to riots and both of them are not video games.
First one is growing economic rift between rich and poor. Most of low and middle class have their real income lowered , by rising prices of food & energy and till like 3 years ago house prices.
Second thing is UK Police was / is too soft & unprepared to crack down vandalism on this scale. I mean they consider using tear gaas & plastic bullets. Consider?! With so big riots especially ones that are just vandalism&robbing riots , they should use from beggining.
When a pair of reproductively competent rats are placed in a closed space and provided with sufficient food, they will reproduce and reproduce until the space is filled with rats. At a critical density, wars break out.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
Just young pissed off teens. they have no outlet for anger. maybe they think they can pull an middle east uprising and get a new goverment that lets them afford video games, who knows.
They know the police are too soft , Poor old Mayor Boris got lynched a few minutes ago, like its his fault. A poor guy was sat beaten in a street on a pool of his own blood and rioters helped him up then robbed him . That's not political rioting there is no excuses for things like this. Bring out the rubber bullets and water cannons, the little thugs would go crying home to mummy then.
They know the police are too soft , Poor old Mayor Boris got lynched a few minutes ago, like its his fault. A poor guy was sat beaten in a street on a pool of his own blood and rioters helped him up then robbed him . That's not political rioting there is no excuses for things like this. Bring out the rubber bullets and water cannons, the little thugs would go crying home to mummy then.
believe it are not water cannons are banned human rights yet france will use them but are spine less goverment wont . i love to use plasic buttlets on the scum. im ace at bounceing them of walls so you cant get done for aiming right at them nice trick i picked up in the army
The Cincinnati Riots of 1884 started when a mob attacked the Cincinnati jail in an attempt to lynch William Berner, who had been sentenced to 20 years in jail for manslaughter after murdering his employer. Over 10,000 rioters gathered to attack the jail, and troops and the militia were called in the assist the police. After three days of violence, the jail and courthouse had been burned, over 50 people had died and many more were wounded.[6]
I hear about riots all the time. I heard about riots last month, and the month before etc. I am not surprised when i hear of another workplace shooting, or another college shot up. I expect at least one of these events yearly now, when i was younger i never remember hearing about such things at all. (other then the riots, being a detroiter i know that word pretty well)
Maybe we are just more connected then ever that gives a preception of increased violence, maybe its our culture or the growing pains of cultures that are having trouble letting go of old beliefs. Maybe its the fact moral is thrown around like its a bad word, or a word used to supress someone.
Dunno, better minds then mine will figure it out someday.
Actually, rioting is relatively rare compared to in the past (before video games or heavy violence on TV). Especially in the industrialized countries. Now if we want to talk about some of the developing countries, I don't know much about their situations. But much of the rioting over the last year has been in the middle east, and I seriously doubt that has much to do with violent video games or tv as heavily censored as many of the countries involved are.
Remember the part in Grand Theft Auto IV where a riot breaks out during a protest over a father of four getting gunned down by police? Me either, but the London constable nonetheless blames the game series for inciting the violence that has resulted in over 160 arrests across the city.
While others are blaming Blackberry, Facebook, and Twitter for the senseless violence that has spread into four London boroughs over the last two days, an unnamed bobby speaking to the London Evening Standard reached deeper into the grab bag of convenient scapegoats. "These are bad people who did this," he said. "Kids out of control. When I was young it was all Pac-Man and board games. Now they're playing Grand Theft Auto and want to live it for themselves."
There you have it – in the age of Pac-Man, rioting over the actions of the London police would never enter into the minds of the innocent youth. But now, Rockstar has injected anarchistic tendencies into teenagers' brains. We couldn't possibly expect this old chap to remember the Brixton riots of 1981 and 1985, could we?
To read more about the riots, visit the Guardian'sriot hub. To read more about video games being blamed for all of society's ills, google Jack Thompson.
There is 2 causes to riots and both of them are not video games.
First one is growing economic rift between rich and poor. Most of low and middle class have their real income lowered , by rising prices of food & energy and till like 3 years ago house prices.
Second thing is UK Police was / is too soft & unprepared to crack down vandalism on this scale. I mean they consider using tear gaas & plastic bullets. Consider?! With so big riots especially ones that are just vandalism&robbing riots , they should use from beggining.
Agree with 2. Not entirely in full agreement with 1., in fact social structure of these ppl rioting is more a route cause than economic imo. Economic definitely has an impact, is true.
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this! ^^^^
This cop is an idiot. I mean... seriously?!? Blaming a near-nation wide riot on a video game?
And these guys are being paid as professionals in law enforcement and criminal investigations?
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Unless you're a criminal.
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
it is like obama blaming s&p for usa having a deficit.lol!
when all country understand that since greece issue has risen,people wont tolerate deficit!
s&p was just the mesenger but everybody on the planet feel this way :YOU CAN SPEND TILL YOU IN AND OUT ARE =
but the world wont tolerate it that you borrow the money you ll make in 2100!
There is 2 causes to riots and both of them are not video games.
First one is growing economic rift between rich and poor. Most of low and middle class have their real income lowered , by rising prices of food & energy and till like 3 years ago house prices.
Second thing is UK Police was / is too soft & unprepared to crack down vandalism on this scale. I mean they consider using tear gaas & plastic bullets. Consider?! With so big riots especially ones that are just vandalism&robbing riots , they should use from beggining.
When a pair of reproductively competent rats are placed in a closed space and provided with sufficient food, they will reproduce and reproduce until the space is filled with rats. At a critical density, wars break out.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
isnt this called MMORPG.com?
Just young pissed off teens. they have no outlet for anger. maybe they think they can pull an middle east uprising and get a new goverment that lets them afford video games, who knows.
I blame hormones.
They know the police are too soft , Poor old Mayor Boris got lynched a few minutes ago, like its his fault. A poor guy was sat beaten in a street on a pool of his own blood and rioters helped him up then robbed him
. That's not political rioting there is no excuses for things like this. Bring out the rubber bullets and water cannons, the little thugs would go crying home to mummy then.
believe it are not water cannons are banned human rights yet france will use them but are spine less goverment wont . i love to use plasic buttlets on the scum. im ace at bounceing them of walls so you cant get done for aiming right at them nice trick i picked up in the army
Actually, rioting is relatively rare compared to in the past (before video games or heavy violence on TV). Especially in the industrialized countries. Now if we want to talk about some of the developing countries, I don't know much about their situations. But much of the rioting over the last year has been in the middle east, and I seriously doubt that has much to do with violent video games or tv as heavily censored as many of the countries involved are.
Whats really weird about his views is that I remember the Brixton riots of '81 (and '85)
I am pretty sure that they didnt have GTA then... actually I am pretty sure most were still playing pac-man and board games.
The guy need to take an honest look at himself and his colleagues before he projects this stuff on to other factors imo.
Agree with 2. Not entirely in full agreement with 1., in fact social structure of these ppl rioting is more a route cause than economic imo. Economic definitely has an impact, is true.
Good vid:
TED: Steven Pinker on the myth of violence
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014633/Classic-Game-Postmortem
That's just great. Now when the Zombie Apocalypse begins are they going to blame Resident Evil?
It's very ridiculous that blames a vedio game for London riots. That's very stupid just like blaming others for ur sickness .
They must do something useful , rather than blame a vedio game.
A video game? Please these are just ghetto racist thugs.
Try this in my neighborhood and I will show you what the Second Amendment is all about.