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Yep, video games are responsible for Detroit's number 1 ranking for murder per capita.
1 posted on 12/05/2007 9:02:54 AM PST by Westlander
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To: Westlander

What happened to global warming, the war in Iraq, second-hand smoke, sunspots, etc. Clearly, a lack of immagination on the part of this prosecutor.


2 posted on 12/05/2007 9:06:43 AM PST by ZeitgeistSurfer (Voting democrat is like playing Russian roulette with five bullets.)
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To: Westlander

hey Kym thanks for the holiday shopping list.


3 posted on 12/05/2007 9:07:43 AM PST by Nat Turner (Proud two term solider in the 2nd Infantry Div 84-85; 91-92)
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It’s obvious which lobby spends the most money on politicians. If the game industry spent as much on politicians (particularly Democrats) as Hollywood spent, there’d be no problem here. Dem’s just want their extortion money... “Nice little video game industry you’ve got here, be a shame if something were to happen to it.”


4 posted on 12/05/2007 9:10:50 AM PST by faloi
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He’s a demagogue. Criminologists looking at crime demographics noted large decreases in violent crime perpetrated by youths (esp. youth-on-youth crime) with the release of Mortal Kombat (the first really popular one-on-one fighting video game) and one of the early first-person-shooters (Doom sticks in my mind as a title, was Doom a first-person-shooter). If anything violent video games provide a catharsis for the violent and thrill-seeking tendencies in youth.


5 posted on 12/05/2007 9:10:53 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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Why is that all the crap made in hollywood is protected by the first amendment as ‘art’ and ‘entertainment’ but video games are not?


6 posted on 12/05/2007 9:12:23 AM PST by z3n
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I played Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein since I was at least 9. From what I’ve heard, I’ve come out OK. Playing videogames are no more harmful than readin violent books like “The Red Badge of Courage”, “Seawolf”, or “The Four Feathers”.


7 posted on 12/05/2007 9:12:48 AM PST by SoldierMedic (Rowan Walter, 23 Feb 2007 Ramadi)
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Keep your hands off my shooter games.


8 posted on 12/05/2007 9:12:49 AM PST by wastedyears (One Marine vs. 550 consultants. Sounds like good odds to me.)
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Correction: make that ‘She’s a demagogue.’


9 posted on 12/05/2007 9:12:49 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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If your not shooting here...you're not shooting S*#T!

Best 1st person shooter on the market!
13 posted on 12/05/2007 9:18:29 AM PST by The Louiswu (Never Forget!)
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It’s a fact. After I started playing Frogger ,I went out and started throwing frogs out on the highway.


15 posted on 12/05/2007 9:20:03 AM PST by Carl LaFong (Building Code Under Fire)
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Oh yeah, that’s it. It must be the games.

Because it’s certainly not 3rd generation welfare, drug addicted dysfunctionals raising kids to be proper convicts from the cradle.

After all, violent criminal gangs are really just another form of extended family villages... or is that village raising enhanced sentences? Or, maybe it went, “it takes a village to raise a gang”?


16 posted on 12/05/2007 9:20:25 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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From the original source (prosecutor's office press release http://www.waynecounty.com/prosecutor/docs/pressReleases/2007/1-2007,December3-2007-Violent-Videogames.pdf )

2007 TOP TEN VIOLENT VIDEOGAMES

1. GRAND THEFT AUTO – Allows players to act out crimes and rewards them for doing so.

2. MANHUNT – Revolves around the making of a snuff film.

3. SCARFACE – Involves buying and selling drugs and killing hundreds of people.

4. 50 CENT BULLETPROOF – Rapper 50 Cent is involved in a web of corruption, double-crosses and shady deals that lead him on a bloody path through New York’s drug underworld.

5. 300 THE VIDEOGAME – Invites game room gladiators to slice their way through the Persian army as King Leonidas or as the leader of the phalanx unit in the Spartan army.

6. THE GODFATHER – Opens with a “child version” of the player witnessing the murder of his father.

7. KILLER-7 – Experienced adult gamers call this the most violent and twisted game ever played.

8. RESIDENT EVIL 4 – Shootouts involving massive crowds of enemies in large open areas. A typical play-through can result in the killing of up to 900 enemies.

9. GOD OF WAR – A sea of unrelenting violence, featuring Kratos, one of the most vicious characters the video game world has ever seen. Impales bodies, severs heads and even rips enemies in half with his bare hands.

10. HITMAN BLOOD MONEY – Self-proclaimed “most violent” game of a series, this game glamorizes killing.

17 posted on 12/05/2007 9:20:59 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Government is the hired help - not the boss. When politicians forget that they must be fired.)
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Those durn kids and their rock n’ roll music alert.


24 posted on 12/05/2007 9:24:18 AM PST by mysterio
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Thank goodness she isn’t boycotting “Super Mario Galaxy”, because I’m really looking forward to playing that one.


27 posted on 12/05/2007 9:30:48 AM PST by jpl (Dear Al Gore: it's 3:00 A.M., do you know where your drug addicted son is?)
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Yep, video games are responsible for Detroit's number 1 ranking for murder per capita.

Aw, c'mon. Detroit only ranks 9th

28 posted on 12/05/2007 9:32:22 AM PST by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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Amazing how liberals resent Christianity, Christmas and the holidays but somehow always want to wage their PR wars in conjunction with the season.


29 posted on 12/05/2007 9:32:25 AM PST by relictele
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When I was a kid we all played army. We ran around shooting, bayoneting, and blowing each other up. For hours on end. Hmm. Can’t recall ANYONE going to school and blowing people away or otherwise engaging in violent behavior.


45 posted on 12/05/2007 10:02:12 AM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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They can take my Halo 3 Legendary from my cold dead hands. Also looking forward to GTA 4.


47 posted on 12/05/2007 10:04:33 AM PST by BigBlueJon (Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas to bed.......Jack Bauer wears George W pajamas.)
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So who’s giving a similar report about movies?

Tops this week (IMDB):
2 Beowulf (2007) $8.21M $68.9M
4 Hitman (2007) $6.02M $30.4M
5 Awake (2007) $5.86M $5.86M
8 The Mist (2007) $4.55M $19.6M
10 No Country for Old Men (2007) $4.39M $22.9M

Majority of top 10 movies just this week are subject to the same complaints - exactly like the other 51 weeks this year, and every year. What does she have to say about them?


51 posted on 12/05/2007 10:26:34 AM PST by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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Well I am in trouble!!!

My current rotation:

1. Call of Duty 4
2. Gears of War
3. Crysis
4. WarHammer Dawn of War
5. Bioshock


53 posted on 12/05/2007 10:35:36 AM PST by Syntyr (Freepers - In the top %5 of informed Americans!)
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