Judge Blames Grand Theft Auto for Teen’s Acts of Sexual Assault

A word of advice for idiots who can’t function within a normal society and try to shift the blame to video games. Actually, it’s more like a request, but after all that mean stuff I just said, I don’t know how willing you’ll be to listen. But I digress: Please don’t try to drag us down with you. It’s not doing us any favors, and it clearly isn’t going to help you any, either:

A judge attacked a violent video game yesterday as he jailed a teenager for a string of ‘horrific’ sex assaults.

Ryan Chinnery, high on skunk cannabis, prowled the streets searching for women victims to act out the sick fantasies he learned from the game Grand Theft Auto.

Four women were subjected to degrading sex assaults after the 19-year-old had spent hours playing the game, which sends the player’s character on a violent crime spree, including beating up prostitutes.

Sentencing Chinnery to eight years, Judge Philip Statman said there was a ‘worrying mirror of conduct’ between the attacks and the computer game, which showed a ‘scant respect for women’.

He said: ‘You were driving alone at night to select a female victim, replicating that which was in your fantasy. You have sought to dominate and humiliate women to gain sexual satisfaction. You thrive on the feeling of power and control.’

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Judge Statman told him: ‘It is not for this court to enter the controversy as to whether such conduct is encouraged by pornographic material and video games such as Grand Theft Auto.

‘But there is a worrying mirror of conduct between that which pornography presented to you and that which you have carried out.’

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Patsy McKie, from Mothers Against Violence, said last night: ‘The Government must ban these games as soon as possible. The only people they benefit are the makers, who cash in on the misery they have generated. — Mail Online

Ok, people, let’s look at this logically: The problem is clearly with the individuals, not the game. If it were the fault of the games, which sell in the millions, you wouldn’t be saying such things right now, because we’d all be trying to survive in the middle of the friggin’ Apocalypse.

And since we clearly are not, it is painfully obvious that the problem must be in the odd numbskulls who go on to do such things.

It’s quite simple, really: If there’s a leak, you don’t try to fix the water, you try to fix the hole.