# Mass Media Causes Murders?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-media-causes-murders/200035>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 7, 2003, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-media-causes-murders/200035 "2003-09-07T03:21:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-media-causes-murders/200035/21 "2003-09-09T17:48:34Z")

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What a parasite. 50 years ago he’d be suing EC comics. If kids are stupid enough to be influenced by GTA, then it’s a wonder they didn’t become plumbers after playing Super Mario Bros, or spend all day trying to eat ghosts about a round of Pac-Man.

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**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-media-causes-murders/200035/22 "2003-09-09T17:57:41Z")

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Heh I know, best not get too cozy here… 😃

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**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-media-causes-murders/200035/23 "2003-09-10T02:52:30Z")

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As Gary Gygax - the creator of Dungeons and Dragons - once said, people have been killing each other for many millenia before even the written word was invented, so blaming violence on the media is stupid. Yeah, maybe these kids got the idea for a specific method of killing from a game, but the game didn’t make them _want_ to kill.

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