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Three teens were arrested Thursday in connection with the firebombing of three cars with Molotov cocktails, devices one of the suspects said he learned to make by playing Grand Theft Auto.

The 15-year-old and two 16-year-olds face 57 felony counts of first- and second degree arson, first- and second-degree criminal damage to property and possession of explosive devices.

While the Milton (Georgia) police chief was quick to blame violent video games for the spree, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution made sure to balance to the story by interviewing someone who actually knew what they were talking about.

Lawrence Kutner, co-director of the Center for Mental Health and Media at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, disputed the police chief's claim that the firebombings were "another strong example of the serious ramifications that can come from letting impressionable teens play violent video games like this one."

"If you look at the whole population, youth violent crime has gone down dramatically since the 1990s while playing computer games has gone up exponentially," Kutner said.

"It may be that a kid attracted to criminal behavior is also attracted to violent games," he said. "You can't make the simple statement that if you expose a kid to violent games, then he'll become violent" in life.

While Kutner makes a good point, any even better one to make is that GTA never actually teaches you how to make Molotov cocktails. Use them? Perhaps. Make them? No way.

quote HazzyBwfc

its not like you need anything to know how to do it..... just throw a load of stuff together and bam! vandalise away

quote GTA Legend

OMG!
I am going to explode if I see another one of these stupid anti-GTA threads.

quote ChiroVette

Will you guys STOP blindly defending Rockstar? Or have you forgotten that mission in IV where you have to go to the store and buy a bottle of soda, drink the soda then go to the gas station and buy gasoline? Remember, how you have to put the gas into the bottle and douse a wet rag with the gasoline, stuff it into the bottle and away you go??

What was that mission called again?

quote HazzyBwfc

i dont know what youre talking about !


oh wait, i think it was before the mission where we had to kill those plants, and i think a coupla missions after the ones where you had to beat up old taxi drivers....

yeah...

not like the old GTA days, where you had to kill the old grannies.... no now its serious