Oh not again...

[darkangel]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?section_name=pub&aid=2228

Frankly im getting quite fed up of this, people should not look for excuses for whatever has happend.

[FelixofMars]

Lets blame someone for our own stupidity time!

Maybe games need warning splash screens like on Jackass so they can't sue...

However how did they manage to find the gun, did they find a store called Ammunation with a motionless clerk in it and buy it for $400 then pop a cap in his head?

I think not!

Next people will be sueing the electricity company for getting an electric shock from sticking a fork in the wall socket!

[jimmbob]

Crazy. I'd be more worried about where the daft sods had got the firearm from in the first palce!
Besides as the article states, GTA has an age restriction of over 18 [M in the states] Perhaps that should be looked at too, considering these brats are only 14 and 16...

Or perhaps the answer to the perennial problem of delinquent teenagers dropping bricks from motorway and railway bridges is to sue the creators of Tetris?

And to think if only they'd never played GTA, they would both have grown up into perfectly adjusted mature adults...

[Vaipon]

Been said a million times before but:

GUNS!!!!!!! are the f*cking problem America. Wake the f*ck up.

[Magnakai]

Crazy. I'd be more worried about where the daft sods had got the firearm from in the first palce!

EXACTLY.
It's the parents of the kids (assuming it was their gun) who should be locked up. And the kids should get some SERIOUS psychiatric help.
Blaming it on a computer game.... It's like blaming it on rock music.

[Che Musashi]

Car Jacking is patriotic!
We're doing it to help the economy.

Guns don't hurt people violent videogames do.

I think its easier to blame a videogame then America's Second Amendment loving society. I myself am no fan of guns especially if they are aimed at me. Though videogame killing has never led me to a life of crime.

[charlesr]

Been said a million times before but:

GUNS!!!!!!! are the f*cking problem America. Wake the f*ck up.

Although I'm not sure whether to believe his hype or not, in "Bowling for Columbine", Michael Moore (?) clearly shows that guns are NOT the problem, since Canada has just as many guns per capita and has but a tiny fraction of the gun crime rate that the US has. It is imagined that if guns did not exist, they would find some other way.
It is probably the people that go around sueing games companies that cause the problem. Fuked up kids see this and think that they will get away with a crime cos they can just blame a videogame knowing the media will focus all the attention on the game developer as soon as they mention it, rather than stringing the kids up by their testicles as they should be.

[Crisp_Rapper]

i say we should ban kids.

[Vaipon]

It is imagined that if guns did not exist, they would find some other way.

What other way is there to snipe at passing cars without using a gun? If the kids resorted to some other non-firearm GTA inspired crime, the chances of it resulting in a fatality would of been significantly less. If they hadn't had easy access to Daddy's rifle, they would of had to actually engage someone with their fists. Somehow I doubt a 14 year old kid would be quite as lethal in this scenario.

[Crisp_Rapper]

[Tiger]

This isn't the first time that videogames have been in the dock over youth violence in the USA. Following the tragic school shootings in Littleton several years ago, the parents of several of the victims attempted to sue a host of games companies - including id Software, creators of Doom, and Nintendo - creators of such blood filled orgies of violence as Mario and Pokemon...

I think these people are just trying to get away with ther children's bad behaviour, and now even want to get payed for it... Unbelievable, this is only possible in Amerika.

[Riskbreaker]

For a start, Grand Theft Auto games are rated M (similar to our 18 rating here) in the United States, and while the country has no legislation to prevent M-rated games from being sold to children (in fact, legislation attempting to do just this was recently overturned in Washington state), the assumption is that parents will control access to content unsuitable for their children.

You just can't argue the stupidity of some people.

[C']

"The industry needs to cough up money so victims and their families can be compensated for their pain,"

I love this quote. How about those responsible for commiting these acts cough up the money

[overlord uk]

Take Two can simply say that the game is rated 18 and the boys should not have been playing it. Even if it were proved that the game had caused these violent actions, the parents were clearly being irresponsible letting them play it. Not only that, but their rifle was clearly not stored in a place where their children could not gain access to it. Yeesh, these parents are completely moronic.

I bet they win their sodding case too.

[m@]

So If they win the case, do you think I'll be able to claim Some money from the Gran Turismo team after being caught speeding the other day???