Violent video games could have higher retail prices

[Vetteman94]

phisheep said:

nordlead said:

hentai_11 said:

Staude said:

... In steps Britain and its Knife Crime Adviser, Richard Taylor, who believes that knife crimes in Britain is in large part due to the accessibility and cheap cost of violent video games for British teens. ...

Wouldn't the better way to prevent "Knife Crimes" be, if you would make a "Knife Tax" instead of a "Videogame Tax"?

The best way to reduce "knife crimes" is to make guns legal again. I believe they outlawed guns (maybe just handguns, not 100% sure), so knife crimes went up. When people were getting hacked by fake samuria swords, they outlawed them. So, the best solution is to make guns legal again, which will reduce knife crimes and look good for their division

No. That's not it.

We've had controls and various  levels of bans on private gun ownership for more than a century. It is too much of a logical stretch to correlate that with a rise in knife crime in the last 10 years.

On topic - Richard Taylor is a good man with an impossible job. His own young son was murdered by stabbing some years ago, and he has devoted himself to working directly with children and against crime. He has done a lot of good. He was appointed a government advisor only last month and has, I suspect, a lot to learn, and he's no policy expert. But he's no Jack Thompson, that's for sure. 

 

But its obviously not to much of a logical stretch for him to correlate the rise in knife crimes to the accessibility of cheap and violent video games.