Where Politics And Video Games Collide

"Every time [officers] take down a gang house, there’s always one thing that will always be there,” Grossman says. “It’s a video game. The video games are their newspaper, their television, their all-consuming narrative.”

Let me get this straight. Police officers take down a gang house that contains gang members, that is, members of a criminal gang. These people are armed with guns, more than likely have committed crimes in the past (why else are the cops after them?) and are also more than likely involved in drugs. And the video game is what is to blame. Oooooo-kay...

Does he not realise how ridiculous this sounds? Did the riots over the Rodney King beating start because video games were people's "newspaper, their television, their all-consuming narrative"? NO! They began because they were watching real events on real television/newspapers.

"And their video games are all cop-killer, criminal simulators."

Perhaps I am being a little stereotypical, but is Madden a "cop-killer, criminal simulator"? I think if you spoke to gang members and asked them if they trained on Grand Theft Auto and got all their information from it, they would either laugh out loud in your face, or possibly shoot you for being so dumb.