In a disastrous year in which the pandemic has shocked the world, the economic crisis is bringing the West to its knees, and protests over racism and the presidential campaign have poisoned the climate in the US, for Early Walker, a philanthropist, is GTA 5 the cause of the increase in car theft a Chicago. For this reason, he would like a law to be passed to ban the game from Illinois.
To report the point of view of this philanthropist is Fox News, which claims that “GTA may have impacted young minds“According to Walker, moreover,” there are many similarities between these crimes and the video game. “For the city police, car thefts have risen by 135% during 2020 and the negative trend is also continuing during the first months of 2021. Furthermore, many of the thieves would also be 12 and 14 year olds.
Criminals act in gangs and use stolen cars to commit other crimes. For this reason the Rep. Marcus Evans Jr. proposed banning video games in which “vehicles can be stolen with a driver or passenger present” across the state of Illinois.
A psychologist interviewed by the network said that this genre of video games may somehow have played a role in this genre of crimes, but they can hardly be considered the only one. trigger factor. Especially considering, we add, that GTA 5 is also sold in other cities in the USA and in the world, cities in which there is not the same emergency as the metropolises of Illinois. One thing that makes us think, but we are not psychologists, philanthropists or anything else, that obviously there are other reasons behind these crimes and wanting to put the blame on a video game is the classic way to divert attention from the real problems and continue to do nothing to fix things.
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