Games blamed for rape... in JERSEY?!?

[sam13lfc]

I think we should place the blame on, I know it seems crazy, the actual sick rapist who, y'know, raped the girl?

 

[DigitalSushi]

You don't care about a girl you don't know being raped, but you care about a rapist you don't know being libelled. Yes I see the logic there.

Oh god thank you, you put my overly long words into something short and readable, and something I hadn't thought of as well!.

 

[Robert632]

Where is the connection between rape and war games coming from? It's not like many games he was probably playing were filled with rape(I bet I could count the amount of war games with rape in them on 1 hand.), and the blame is clearly on anger mixing with hormones anyway.

Or possible shit parenting

Or a combination of both.

 

[Nutcase]

After a row with his mother over the amount of time he was spending playing the game, the 14-year-old left home with the intention of mugging the first person he saw. He took a kitchen knife and home-made balaclava with him.

After first ignoring a heavily-built man, he turned his attention to a 19-year-old who was making her way home from town late on 13 October. After following her to the Westmount area, he forced her into a field at knifepoint before subjecting her to brutal rape.

The article centers (for me) on the fact that a mother can't control her 14 year old kid.

You don't get to choose whether your kid is mentally ill or devoid of conscience. For all you know, the kid was going to be set off by something eventually. It's unfortunate it happened when he was still a minor and can't be locked up for good - you'll see him doing this again in a few years.

The way I see it, the only thing that would have stood a chance of stopping him was armed self-defense by the victim. Is self-defense legal in Jersey?

I think self-defence is legal anywhere =/ within reason. The cops aren't going to book you for trying to stop someone murdering you are they?

Sure they are going to book you, in many places including where I live.

The average woman has next to no chance in a physical struggle against the average man if she isn't allowed to carry weapons in her defense. Neither can she escape because the man is faster. Many people like to stick their head in sand and pretend otherwise, but facts are facts.

Criminals' right not to be harmed supercedes the victims' rights not to be raped and murdered. Most women agree - they oppose legal carry of weapons and even their possession at home far more than men do.

 

[Dogstile]

I don't see that at all. I said that /I/ don't care about the girl. Don't know her, don't care. What I was pointing out was the aforementioned avoiding of the big guy, when you mentioned the girl, I said i didn't care. She is irrelevant to that particular point.

Really?, she's irrelevant?

Your right she is.

Now where were we?, oh yeah, we were talking about how that rapist is fucking clever for not mugging a big fella and instead raping a girl.

GO HIM!

so what colour should our pom poms be when he gets released and we cheer his Newtonian brain of his?.

Your being an ass. You called him a coward. I told you that point is stupid because nobody would attack someone twice their size, happy? No? Well who cares, i'm not arguing anymore because you're obviously just going to change your point until you win.

You don't care about a girl you don't know being raped, but you care about a rapist you don't know being libelled. Yes I see the logic there.

Nope, I don't care. I was just pointing out that no, that wasn't a cowardly act to do as there is being a coward and there is being sensible. Obviously though, I can't point out anything on a /discussion/ forum without being told that its affecting me oh so deeply.

 

[Zing]

*sound of me letting out a long drawn out heavy sigh*

 

[Slayer_2]

So what does a "war game" have to do with rape?

 

[Numb1lp]

To quote Chris Rock: "What ever happened to crazy?"
And he has a point. It wasn't the circumstances, this boy was just crazy.

 

[DigitalSushi]

Your being an ass. You called him a coward. I told you that point is stupid because nobody would attack someone twice their size, happy? No? Well who cares, i'm not arguing anymore because you're obviously just going to change your point until you win.

You seem to be discussing how I'm being an ass for calling a rapist a coward for not mugging a guy bigger than him?.

Well colour me bemused.

You don't care about a girl you don't know being raped, but you care about a rapist you don't know being libelled. Yes I see the logic there.

Nope, I don't care. I was just pointing out that no, that wasn't a cowardly act to do as there is being a coward and there is being sensible. Obviously though, I can't point out anything on a /discussion/ forum without being told that its affecting me oh so deeply.

You don't care that a girl got raped that you don't know, but you care that a guy you don't know calls a rapist a coward?. Do you know the rapist?

Your a strange boy aren't you.

 

[Harbinger_]

I do love how games get blamed for every negative thing that happens

Quoted for Truth.

Next they'll blame games for global warming, the recession as well as people drinking milk directly from the carton.

 

[shinigamisparda]

Sorry, can't really say anything because of two reasons. 1) My parents don't think video games cause violence and rapists (though they do think I play too much). 2) Where I live the crime rate is pretty high anyway. You can't go one day without hearing a siren.

 

[Woodsey]

Oh come on, surely they can do better than that?

Why didn't they say he was playing those one of those weird Hentai rape games and blame it on that? Then there'd of been the "link" for people who still weren't sure to make their mind up.

How I'd of loved for them to say war games "such as Grand Theft Auto".

Also, there must be more than 2000 gamers surely?

 

[Dogstile]

Your being an ass. You called him a coward. I told you that point is stupid because nobody would attack someone twice their size, happy? No? Well who cares, i'm not arguing anymore because you're obviously just going to change your point until you win.

You seem to be discussing how I'm being an ass for calling a rapist a coward for not mugging a guy bigger than him?.

Well colour me bemused.

You don't care about a girl you don't know being raped, but you care about a rapist you don't know being libelled. Yes I see the logic there.

Nope, I don't care. I was just pointing out that no, that wasn't a cowardly act to do as there is being a coward and there is being sensible. Obviously though, I can't point out anything on a /discussion/ forum without being told that its affecting me oh so deeply.

You don't care that a girl got raped that you don't know, but you care that a guy you don't know calls a rapist a coward?. Do you know the rapist?

Your a strange boy aren't you.

Not at all, I don't give a damn about the rapist either, I live in Britain, far away from him. I just enjoy discussion, and pointing something out seems to have just touched a nerve with you.

But keep going, i'm enjoying this.

Edit: didn't see the top part.

No, i'm calling you an ass because you keep changing the point. Stick to one point for crying out loud, you keep changing which part of the story we're talking about.

 

[Angelic-Dragon]

Wow! always thought the JEP was bias, but this has just elevated the printing company to stupidity! another ones joined the band wagon.

 

[Mythbhavd]

Now, the bit that annoyed me? With it being a small island, that's the only local newspaper that gets printed, and there are a hell of a lot of people who take it at it's word. The article centers (for me) on the fact that a mother can't control her 14 year old kid.

I think you're centering on the wrong fact. The mother told her son to stop playing the game. He did. Looks like, in the home, she had control. I doubt he had the knife and the balaclava and announced to his mom that he was going to mug someone. That sounds like something that came out in interrogation. The fact is that he was having a temper tantrum and was going to take it out on someone. He was a coward (left the big guy alone), as most bullies or rapists are, and chose to take his anger out on someone who wasn't able to defend herself. Personally, I have no compassion for rapists. Four years? The judge should be flogged.

 

[T3h Merc]

I...
I...
Have no fucking words.

 

[Blackjack 222]

to the rest of the posts TL;DR

I love it when they blame video games, its just hilarious when they see "Oh he played call of duty online he raped that girl they must be connected" makes me laugh at the stupidity of people, and the scapegoats parents make to media to make them look less like shit.
Also, the kid is obviously some tiny little bully wannabe, leaves the big dude alone goes for the girl, and its not the games fault, its the kid being an unstable piece of garbage, did the war game feature rape, or promote rape? I don't think so(since we don't know what game like they would say) Guns don't kill people people do, games don't rape people, unstable tards do

 

[mikecoulter]

People always blame the unknown. They're just ignorant, le it slide.