[Through-Glass]

Originally Posted by A

What statistics have you got which prove that "video games make people violent"?

• More than 70 percent of American teenage boys have played the violent and adult-rated Grand Theft Auto video game, and those teens are more likely to have been in a fight than those who have not played, according to a new Gallup poll quoted in the Washington Post.

• A recent Dateline expose shows just how easy it is for underage children to purchase adult-rated video games such as Grand Theft Auto, even at stores that allegedly have a system for checking age identification. Two years after a dramatic Federal Trade Commission report found that adult-rated entertainment products are pervasively and aggressively being marketed to children, 80 percent of the minors who attempted to buy Mature-rated products were still able to do so.

This is not "just a game". Simulators intend to create realistic situations to stimulate the brain of the person playing. I am unsure if I would go so far as to advocate a ban, although that's my first instinct...but there should definitely be MANY legal restrictions and requirements.

This is the sickest thing I have ever heard. I don't care who decides to deal out personal attacks, I may state my opinion on the matter; other members have the same right. Whoever thought of this game is most likely very disturbed and should be committed to a mental ward.