“By what preposterous reasoning can one argue that once someone turns 17 years of age it magically becomes OK to glorify mass murder? Are we saying that it would have been OK for that Beltway Sniper guy – who was apparently in his 40s – to have been allowed to play “Grand Theft Auto” before going on his killing spree, but it wouldn’t have been OK for that young teenager who went along with him to have done the same?”

The Beltway Sniper guy and his accomplice didn’t play a video game that “caused” them to do what they did, which goes to prove that some people are just sick bastards and would do this sort of thing with or without playing the game in question. Playing a violent game like GTA doesn’t make people violent, they all ready are…and it doesn’t take much to realise this when you consider out of the millions of people who have played it, how many of them went out and shot countless people dead, then had sex with a prostitute and subsequently bludgeoned her to death. NONE!

“On December 12 we wrote about Manhunt, a disgusting, brutal Rockstar Games computer ‘entertainment package’ which turns players into degenerate, homicidal murderers.”

I own Manhunt and yet I have not turned into a “degenerate, homicidal murderers”, and I am sure the millions of other people who have played Manhunt have not turned into “degenerate, homicidal murderers” either.

“And trust me when I tell you, Mr. Mayor, what Take-Two Interactive is blowing into your face every day is a whole lot worse than second-hand cigarette smoke.”

How can a video game be worse than a real danger, which kills thousands of people every day all around the world? If it was up to you, would you destroy Take-Two, instead of saving thousands, if not millions of lives. I Do not know how you can compare these together.