What is non-cruel violence?
The incident caused outrage and the bill's sponsor, the Bavarian interior minister Günther Beckstein, claimed there was a direct connection between Bosse's actions and his love of the game Counter Strike. "It is absolutely beyond any doubt that such killer games desensitise unstable characters and can have a stimulating effect," he said.
That's nice. I wish people would stop presenting their ill-informed opinions as if it where facts. The facts is that violent crime has been in a steady decline since 1992, the year Mortal Kombat the most overtly violent videogame in history was released. Thanks largely to violent videogames, violent crime is lower than at any other point in recorded human history.