UK To Mull High Video Game Taxes — To Fight Knife Crime

chareverie writes "The Prime Minister of the UK is being urged to impose high taxes on violent video games in an effort to reduce the number of knife-related crime. The request comes from Richard Taylor, who argues that young people 'feel that the law has no control over them. They just feel that they can go on the streets and do whatever they like.' He doesn't have a definitive number on how much to tax on the offensive video games, but says that they should be 'very high.' Rap music is also voiced to be a concern due to the alleged negativity and language. Taylor's son, Damilola Taylor, was killed in November 2000 at the age of 10 by knife stabbing."

Comments

Re:And us Americans are effed up?

[gbjbaanb]

England, what the hell is wrong with you?

I think, for the last 30 years or so, we've been trying to become more like America.

I don't know who to blame more - Raegan, Thatcher for their 'free market' policies and 'special relationship'; or Blair for the "I'm middle class, therefore I count for more than you scum, so shut up and let me do things my way because I'm the only one who can fix everything" attitude to policy, or Brown for the idiotic "no more boom and bust", "I will not let house prices get out of control and damage the economy" (LOL!) economic incompetence.

Its no wonder the youth are disaffected, though they've always been like that, but now they (rightly) really feel like they have no stake in society. Its not like the 60s when the hippie generation grew up and became accountants, or the 70s when the punk generation grew up and became businessmen, or the 80s when everyone was a self-interested tosser, or the 90s when all the ravers grew up and became property developers. Youth of today really have f*ck all to look forward to - even those not living in seriously overcrowded, ruined estates full of insignificantly-paid immigrants and criminals, ruled over by totally incompetent councillors and lazy, misguided and seriously overpaid public officials.

What?

[Kupfernigk]

Someone whose child was murdered is understandably wound up about it and does not come to a rational solution. What has this got to do with guns? Are you telling me there are no parents in the US who have had their child murdered? If so, that's balls. And do some of them want to take extreme measures to reduce child murders? Unsurprising.

Does NRA membership cause low IQs, or is there merely a correlation?

Re:Please correct my logic

[Shakrai]

Don't get me wrong, British society has plenty of problems, not least with its government what with all of the CCTV and the war in the Middle East and the economic issues etc. but the gun policy we have here works for us and I don't really think you should be so disdainful about it.

I hope you appreciate the irony of being upset about the CCTV but not being upset about your government taking away a right that you had for hundreds of years. Eventually I think that the British people will relearn the lesson that if you give your government an inch they are going to take a mile. I only hope that you manage to relearn it before you wind up in a full-fledged police state and not afterwards.

As for being disdainful that's not going to change. Your country gave us the Common Law and the Magna Carta, both foundations for all the rights that I enjoy as an American citizen. It hurts me to see how far you've fallen and that's the source of my disdain. Wake up now before it's too late.