AFTER TARGET AND KMART IN AUSTRALIA DECIDE TO STOP STOCKING THE GAME, FANS OF GRAND THEFT AUTO DEMAND THAT THE BIBLE IS ALSO BANNED
Australia’s Kmart and Target stores have decided to ban “Grand Theft Auto V.” I’m not sure why it took them five versions to get there, but it’s clear the stores were moved by a petitionthat was signed by 50,000 people.
It declared that the game “encourages players to murder women for entertainment.” It added: “The incentive is to commit sexual violence against women, then abuse or kill them to proceed or get ‘health’ points.” It concluded: “Games like this are grooming yet another generation of boys to tolerate violence against women.”
Many will surely have sympathy with the petitioners. The issue of violence against women remains central to every society in the world.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, however, some GTA fans are deeply unamused. They’re now calling for Target and Kmart to ban the Bible.
Posting their own petition in the same place as the anti-GTA V one — Change.org — these petitioners declare: “Withdraw The Holy Bible — this sickening book encourages readers to commit sexual violence and kill women.”
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