If you're a political enthusiast, you may have noticed that Pennsylvania recently tried to pass a bill forcing violent video games to retail for more than non-violent games. This special "violent games tax," would force consumers extra cash in order to pollute their minds in their efforts to ruin our perfect society. Thankfully, that legislation never came to fruition.

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.

"I have young people who I mentor and I see them go up and buy the games and it saddens me that they are being able to have such a negative impact," Taylor told the Home Affairs Committee.

Furthering emulating Jack Thompson, Taylor then targeted violent rap music and America.

"It is creating more of a problem because of the language that is used," Taylor commented. "It is language that, as a father, I would not allow my children to hear. To me, there is a lot of negativity that comes out of this music, especially that which is coming from America."

What's next in this debate -- parents should be jailed for buying M-rated titles for their kids? Oh wait, that was yesterday.

Source

http://www.psu.com/Violent-video-games-could-have-higher-retail-prices-News--a006649-p0.php

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lol i'm glad my country usually don't give a crap about all of that.

Stupid idea, either ban something or don't. Its like putting a cookie on the edge of a kitchen worktop and telling a toddler they can't have it.

I wish my country would introduce an R18+ rating. I hate getting screwed over with censorship and in some cases, whole games because parents are too lazy to monitor what their children are doing and just want to ruin it for everyone else.

I know it's not really on topic, but it's pretty much the same issue.

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

how much more would they add for u to pay

i don' t care a few extra bucks won't stop me from buying something i want

if this happens i think that the violent games should be made more violent if there going to charge us for it so it may be a good thing

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.

Hello to used games,cause 60$ for 6 hours isnt worth it,and hello to underground games.

I was half joking, as I would never encourage gun violence or any violence at all.

All I know, is that in a lot of studies, places in the US that have passed concealed guns laws violent crime dropped, as you didn't know if you were going to attack someone who could defend themselves. I may not have the exact scenario down, but I read an article a while back about knife crimes rising, and gun crimes dropping and how they were going to ban fake samurai swords because of the sudden rise in sword deaths. I'm not an expert on the matter but that doesn't change the facts that people will kill with whatever they can get their hands on. As a stupid bumper sticker I've seen before says, "guns don't kill people, I do"

You can't outlaw violence. I mean, you can, but it won't stop people. By banning one thing, you just shift the weapon to another. If I can't get my hands on a gun, I'll pick up a knife, if I can't get a knife, I'll pick up a bat, if I can't get a bat, I'll get a lead pipe, maybe a candle stick, or a rope (maybe they should tax clue). The best way to reduce violent crime is to teach people to defend themselves, be safe, and be responsible.