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Jillian Werner - April 11th, 2008

Gamer Culture, Grand Theft Auto, Politics

Violent Games Beget Violent Opinions


In the mixed up, back-and-forth spitfire debate that is violence in video games, there is one constant of life that cannot be denied: charts make everything easier to understand.

Even our favorite attorney, —who wows with eloquent and professional pet names for gamers such as “nitwit” and “knucklehead pixelantes” on the LiveJournal community GamePolitics—can follow this lovely graph, based on statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice.

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