UK To Mull High Video Game Taxes — To Fight Knife Crime 615
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."
Correlation... (Score:5, Funny)
God damn it. (Score:1, Funny)
I fucking know who this makes me want to stab.
Well, next... (Score:5, Funny)
Now that they've done away with all gun and knife crimes, they need to fight shillelagh crimes. Shillelagh crimes have been steadily on the rise, doubling from one to two in just ten years. Even worse, some oafs are starting to hammer nails into their shillelaghs, just so they have metal pokey-bits to inflict more damage.
We need to tax all carpenters and lumberyards in the UK, or our youth will pay a terrible price in violence and fear.
Re:Please correct my logic (Score:5, Funny)
^^sarcasm
Re:Correlation... (Score:5, Funny)
Exactly. I knew a kid from bible camp 12 years ago who now is in federal prison for killing and wearing the skin of 16 flemish prostitutes. I always knew Jesus killed, but now that I know video games also kill, what will save us all? We must seek Mel Gibson for council.
Re:Well, next... (Score:5, Funny)
Whew! For a minute, I thought you wanted to tax me Lucky Charms.
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Re:Please correct my logic (Score:5, Funny)
Please correct my logic
This is the part where you fail. You erroneously assume that logic comes into play in the English government.
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Excellent Idea (Score:5, Funny)
video games (Score:5, Funny)
If you can't see the causal relationship between video games and stabbing hookers, then you've never played Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
While they're at it (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Separation of problem and solution (Score:5, Funny)
Exactly.
So, instead of raising taxes on video games, they should impose a tax on stabbing people.
Re:Why not tax (Score:3, Funny)
It's about time... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Please correct my logic (Score:3, Funny)
They also develop better hand-eye coordination, a foundation of stabbing abilities.
While that's true, button-smashing is even less applicable to stabbing than what you do playing Wii Sports Tennis is to playing actual tennis. If there was a "Wii Stab" game, you'd probably play most efficiently by sitting in a chair and using a bicycle pumping motion (what?) to do the stabbing.
Re:Please correct my logic (Score:5, Funny)
Lol, ahhh I can't stab old laddies in GTA...time to start stabbing them in real life.
Re:Correlation... (Score:3, Funny)
whereas a kid who buys lots of violent video games for his next-gen console and HDTV probably comes from a higher-income family.
Or knows how to use bittorrent and a soldering iron ;)
Re:Some also want knives banned (Score:4, Funny)
Re:HUH? (Score:5, Funny)
Because the vaunted chefs of England would rise in revolt, brandishing their filet knives!
Pfft. The CCTV camera boxes would just announce "You there, stop that!" via loudspeaker. Revolt quelled.
Re:HUH? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And the problem is... (Score:3, Funny)
I blame Ronco and Ginsu (Score:3, Funny)
Don't forget your local/national/international package delivery service for allowing dangerous, dangerous knives to be dropped off at the homes of young, impressionable children. It's called "The Postman Always Rings Twice," not "The Homicidal Maniac Always Rings Twice."
And the parents, such horrid parents, for using knives in front of their children, cutting meat and chicken like so many innocent bystanders.
Home kitchens should have all utensils tethered to the walls like in prisons. I've seen it on TV. I've never heard about anyone getting stabbed in a prison kitchen.
Now how much would you pay? In dollars or the souls of your victims?
I prefer the good old days of clean cut television. Wholesome programming like "Leave It To Beaver." But can anyone help me remember what Beaver's last name was?
Re:Correlation... (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, TFA not only fails to show causation, it doesn't bother to show correlation either. Never fear! We can fix that for them.
1. Accusation is correlation!
2. Correlation is causation!
3. ???
4. Profit.
Re:Kids from Clockwork Orange must've played Manhu (Score:1, Funny)
I would postulate that knife crime and video games are mutually exclusive.
Everyone knows that kids that are obsessed with video games will never leave the house voluntarily.
Re:Correlation... (Score:3, Funny)
Uh oh. Are you saying that they'd stab people with the soldering iron?
I was wrong. Tax the shit out of it. This is dangerous stuff!
Crime fighting via taxation (Score:3, Funny)
That is a damn good idea. And to stop rape, we should tax penises. By the pound.
Re:Please correct my logic (Score:5, Funny)
Dangit, when will people realize that it's the parent's responsibility to teach their children how to stab, not video games.
Re:Separation of problem and solution (Score:2, Funny)
Re:They're taxing the wrong thing! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Correlation... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Separation of problem and solution (Score:3, Funny)
they should impose a tax on stabbing people.
Hey, it's how they got Capone ;)
Right that's it. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Twisted statistics to bring more revenue (Score:4, Funny)
agreed, this comment isnt very good anyway
Re:Please correct my logic (Score:3, Funny)
Hey don't short-change the Vulcan government!
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Re:They're taxing the wrong thing! (Score:1, Funny)
Everyone knows you run faster with a knife!