Saturday, January 03, 2004
There's an article in the New York Post that talks about the whole "Grand Theft Auto is EVIL" thing again. One quote in there really bothered me:
"And cases surface constantly in which "Grand Theft Auto" has been linked to violence and killing. In Tennessee last summer a motorist was killed and his passenger wounded when two boys - aged 14 and 16 - played "Grand Theft Auto" and then decided to go out and take sniper shots at cars, just like in the game."
The key word there is "constantly". I am only aware of the one case that the post itself cited that I talked about back in October. Where are all ther other cases that are constantly coming up? I looked up constantly just to make sure my concept of the word was not mistaken. Sure enough, constantly means "continually; perseveringly; without cessation".
So that means that cases are coming up continually. IE every minute there is a call to 911 about someone going out into the highway and blowing cars up and it is later found that the perpetrators were simply trying to copy Grand Theft Auto. Yet there is only one. Bad New York Post, bad.
What's really funny is that the newest edition of GTA, which is Vice City and full of lovely 80s music, "has been on the market for a little over a year now and has already sold more than 5 million copies."
Wow.
Counting all the other copies that were sold of the other games, that's a lot. And yet only two people out of how many million that play the game have gone out and acted it out? Two. Two people, who were probably mentally unstable, out of untold millions that bought the game, let alone have played the game (I don't own it, but I have bought it), have done this. Well damn, I can totally see the constancy of it all!
"And cases surface constantly in which "Grand Theft Auto" has been linked to violence and killing. In Tennessee last summer a motorist was killed and his passenger wounded when two boys - aged 14 and 16 - played "Grand Theft Auto" and then decided to go out and take sniper shots at cars, just like in the game."
The key word there is "constantly". I am only aware of the one case that the post itself cited that I talked about back in October. Where are all ther other cases that are constantly coming up? I looked up constantly just to make sure my concept of the word was not mistaken. Sure enough, constantly means "continually; perseveringly; without cessation".
So that means that cases are coming up continually. IE every minute there is a call to 911 about someone going out into the highway and blowing cars up and it is later found that the perpetrators were simply trying to copy Grand Theft Auto. Yet there is only one. Bad New York Post, bad.
What's really funny is that the newest edition of GTA, which is Vice City and full of lovely 80s music, "has been on the market for a little over a year now and has already sold more than 5 million copies."
Wow.
Counting all the other copies that were sold of the other games, that's a lot. And yet only two people out of how many million that play the game have gone out and acted it out? Two. Two people, who were probably mentally unstable, out of untold millions that bought the game, let alone have played the game (I don't own it, but I have bought it), have done this. Well damn, I can totally see the constancy of it all!
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