Take-Two says blaming games for violence "sidesteps the real issues"

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Munkeh111 said:

happydolphin said:

Munkeh111 said:
Violent games aren't really the problem

The problem is people getting games that aren't appropriate for them and then for 8 year olds to have easy access to guns

That just makes things worse. But it doesn't solve the first problem. It is very similar to the guns debate.

You can blame a moron for misuing a gun, but it doesn't change the fact that guns are prone to being misused.

Right, some people shouldn't have guns, some people shouldn't play violent games. But violent games in themselves don't cause direct issues, guns on the other hand do

But the first things to ask where why was an 8 year old playing GTA unsupervised and how did he get a gun. Our first thought should not be to ban GTA

His caretaker was an 80 year old woman. 

Chances are it was his parents gun, or some gun she or her husband owned and was just put away somewhere she hadn't thought about forever and the kid snooped and found it.

 

Or he just got it from a student or another person.  Gun's are pretty easy to get your hands on just about anywhere in the world.