when you have 12 years olds running around london with replica guns as a status symbol being antisocial for a laugh, and the police are afraid they are going to have to shoot them because they can't tell the difference.
I agree with maximo. Games like GTA would work well as a training tool. These days many gun crimes in the US are hard to trace. The bigger ones have upwards of 70,000 members, and the leaders can order a hit over their cell phone. Police have a hard time solving gang murders because the gangs now have an national network that crosses state boundaries. So a call in Florida can be used to activate an anonymous team in LA who will travel several hundred miles to do the hit and leave again, leaving very little clue for the cops to chase up on.
It really sucks, and kids will emulate behaviour for games initialy, some that stray will have a lot easier time getting around their concience (if they have one) if they have been desensitized by games and violent movies that celebrate the kind of behaviour they have previously admired in fantasy.
I agree with maximo. Games like GTA would work well as a training tool. These days many gun crimes in the US are hard to trace. The bigger ones have upwards of 70,000 members, and the leaders can order a hit over their cell phone. Police have a hard time solving gang murders because the gangs now have an national network that crosses state boundaries. So a call in Florida can be used to activate an anonymous team in LA who will travel several hundred miles to do the hit and leave again, leaving very little clue for the cops to chase up on.
It really sucks, and kids will emulate behaviour for games initialy, some that stray will have a lot easier time getting around their concience (if they have one) if they have been desensitized by games and violent movies that celebrate the kind of behaviour they have previously admired in fantasy.