scarfaceau:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-06/violence-and-video-games-link/4181004

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That news story starts off with “The police commissioner has linked a growing number of stabbings in NSW to violent video games…” How did he make this so called link??

Oh and this is because stabbing violence is relatively new and only happens in NSW, Australia and only started occuring since GTA4 was released… oh wait… NO.

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slugger78:
Pretty sure people have been stabbing each other ever since the invention of pointy things, not Playstations.

Meh, im pretty sure it started with dull rocks ;)

slugger78: Video games dont make us violent, Lag makes us violent!

Meh, im pretty sure it started with dull rocks ;)

aliensf:
Video games dont make us violent, Lag makes us violent!

HAHAHAHA, it sure does!!!

2005 called, they wanna speak to shitty parenting and scapegoat policing. Please hold.

I’ll drink to that!

If that’s the case, how are ‘video games’ causing kids to think violence is okay if the parents aren’t monitoring what they are playing?! It once again comes down to parents, i know some kids just do they want and are out of control, but put your foot down.

Don’t get me wrong, i grew up playing doom, wolf 3d n that, but it was a different time, people were slightly more tolerable, these days people will blame everything but themselves for the shit going on in our streets.

I could go on forever, but i won’t, in the end, blaming games all the time is fucking old, and it annoys me it’s still used as an excuse because a small group of people are idiots.

Society isn’t scared of police anymore, especially here, they’re walkovers (mainly because of piss weak judges/laws), maybe if our laws were fixed up a bit to punish people being violent, etc. and police had more powers (like they did back in the 70′s), people would know there are serious consequences for their actions and behave more?

So far the level of ignorance of coppers is very high for those at the lower end of the power structure of the police force. To say it’s not intentional either by those who train and select the officers would be a lie too. That a sensationalist is at the top in NSW is not really news, after all he has a business to run and creating these sort of controversies is part of it.

Something similar happened up here with Bob Atkinson getting back in the top job of Commissioner when he and the head of the CMC are at odds and the CMC head didn’t want to back Atkinson (though it needed the CMC’s approval) to get back into the top job. It maybe a different topic, but the same bell is ringing and it’s heavily linked to total bullsh*t.

Yes, Scipipne’ comments make me sigh and wonder why on earth he would say something like this but yours make me faceless even harder.

You criticise his comments which make sweeping generalizations, by making uneducated comments of your own.

I don’t know exactly what incident (if any) you are referring to, but I’m fairly confident you’re not in any position to comment on police operational safety and tactics (unless of course you think watching a current affair qualifies you).

It’s like you tried to argue for the winning side and then dribbled all down your shirt. What do you mean “armed only with a knife”? Knives are bloody dangerous. Capsicum spray is not always very effective, and going hand-to-hand against a knife weilding opponent, especially for police who are not remotely close to as you said “highly trained” is seldom a good option. I think any sensible policeman would be reaching for their tazar or firearm when threatened with a knife.

This guy is obviously an idiot no doubt, I’m sure he is just talking out his arse.

However if you run at me with a knife hell if you have a knife out near me and are threatening my life is worth more than yours 100% of the time if I tell you to back off or put the knife down or assume I don’t have enough time to do either of those things and I have a gun I will shoot you, I expect any officer of the law to do exactly the same.

Back on topic this kind of thought reminds me of Dawkins stating Stalin had a mustache how can you say it was atheism and not the mustache that lead to him committing the terrible atrocities he did the same of-course could be said for Hitler, same argument applies here there is no validity behind this claim it’s just plain silly

1 Capsicum Spray
2 Baton
3 My highly trained hand to hand
4 Pull gun and shoot 3 times in the chest.

4.