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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 1408802" data-attributes="member: 5202">Apology accepted BTW heh.  I've just been in so many of these discussions in the past years I'm kinda fed up with them myself.  As far as responsibility goes, uhm I know that in America lawsuits work wonders and people sue companies for the stupidest reasons, but give me a break.  I totally disagree with the theory of responsibility.  I'm one of those people who doesn't believe that music/art/books/etc makes someone pick up a gun and go kill someone else.  *tangent but related*  People always look for a scapegoat.  People sue the gun companies b/c someone used a gun to kill someone else.  Well ya know guns are made for shooting.  While I am pretty anti-gun myself, I still think some of the claims that the gun manufacturers get nailed for are retarded.    If some moron out there picks up a gun and kills 10 people, the family of at least one of those victims will sue the gun maker as knowing this would happen.  Bwah!?  After Columbine the parents of those kids blamed everyone but themselves. It wasn't the Marilyn Manson or Pantera they listened to that made them kill those kids, it was years of parental inattention, verbal abuse from kids at school, crazy teenage hormones and easy access to weapons.  The parental inattention and unlocked gun case are things VERY easily controlled, but they weren't.    Now I know someone will say that these 2 are nothing alike but they're EXACTLY alike.  Going after the makes of Kazaa etc for someone using Kazaa to download a song is the same as going after the gun manufacturers when a gun is used to commit a crime.  In both cases it's pretty dumb.  Now if say it werea case of a faulty weapon killing the user or someone nearby thru no fault of the user, then sure sue the gun company.    Then again I also don't think a rating on  video game should have any bearing on who can buy it, nor parental advisory stickers on CDs...but all this is for other message boards really.  "Kill the Haitians" in GTA:Vice City is NOT a genocidal statement meant to make teens across America rise up and off folks of Haitian heritage, it is a boring mission in VC to kill a Haitian gang.  Out of context examples can work wonders tho.  Hagen</blockquote>

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