The greatest videogame chart you’ll see

April 8 Carl Nelson

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I spotted this on Digg this morning. If you were wondering just how much of a case the lunatics like… I dare not say his name… we’ll call him “Jack”… have against video games, a user on Digg has put it in nice chart form. Using data from the US Department of Justice, the chart graphs the rate violent crime trends over the past 30 years or so. Yup, about since videogames were invented. Check it out:

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Comment by Kal
2008-05-08 14:17:21

Seems to me this chart shows victims per 1000 has dropped, not grown.

 
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