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Galaki on 29 May 2009

And who plays those violent video games? The teenaged older brother.

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Police Blame Video Games For 2-Year-Old Stabbing 5-Month-Old

from the evidence? dept

It seems that whenever there's any kind of violence involving kids, someone rushes to blame video games. Steve L points us to the latest such case, where it's taken to something of an extreme. Apparently a 2-year-old boy stabbed his 5-month-old brother with a knife. It sounds like he didn't do much damage, but police immediately claimed that violent video games owned by a much older teenaged brother "may have played a role." The only problem? The 2-year-old neither plays the games nor watches his older brother playing them. But, why not blame the video games?

Do police not needed to pass stupidity test to be qualified?



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soulsamurai on 29 May 2009

I'm getting tired, as well as everyone else I'm sure, of my hobby being used as a damn scapegoat.

Hell I was tired of it 4 years ago....

The shift went from fiction books -> Tv -> Videogames....

I wonder what's next.



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TWRoO on 29 May 2009

I blame Wii Fit



skip on 29 May 2009

i blame the parents for enabling a two year old to gain possesion of a knife.



Staude on 29 May 2009

only in america !



do they blame video games for all violence :p

Atleast these kind of news makes it seem like that.



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Beoulve on 29 May 2009

If the detectives making those claims actually knew a little about toddlers and childen in general, they would never have blamed video games. I mean, come on! The kid is 2 years old! And the parents even say he wasn't exposed to them.
Children in that age can be very cruel to their younger siblings, I've seen it many times, but they can't fully comprehend the consequences of their actions. They lack impulse control.

If someone is to blame it's the parents for not securing any kinds of sharp objects from their kids, but maybe even more for leaving the toddler alone with an infant. But you know, accidents like these happen all the time, maybe not with knives, but still.

Fucking ignorant morons blaming video games, it's getting old.



hackles on 29 May 2009

thats why cougerman says i cant play house of the dead overkill, madworld, Dead space, resident evil games all of this violent junk



hackles on 29 May 2009

*TWROO*

what can wii fit do?

it doesnt have violence



Beoulve on 29 May 2009
hackles said:
thats why cougerman says i cant play house of the dead overkill, madworld, Dead space, resident evil games all of this violent junk

And you shouldn't play those games, because you're 12. And those games are full of disturbing images.

But if you actually went out killing someone because you played any of those games, the videogames themselves are not to be blamed, because you're either a psychopat or the result of a fucked up childhood.

I agree that games can influence behaviour to a certain extent. Back in 1993/1994 when Street Fighter was huge me and some of my friends would play fighters and pretend to fight and we would also be jacked up by Jackie Chan and Steven Segal movies at that age, but we never hurt each other. When you cross the line and start hurting and killing people there are certainly more important things to blame than videogames. 



1200p|is|FullHD on 29 May 2009

don't blame Wii Fit, blame Wii Music !



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