WASHINGTON, DC-Recently suspended Washington Wizards point guard Gilbert Arenas is telling reporters that his reasoning behind bringing guns into the Wizards locker room was simple-he got the idea from playing the video game "Grand Theft Auto." "I was playing Grand Theft Auto IV, this one part in the game where you gun down an entire Russian gang, and then fly away in a helicopter, and it just hit me. I just had this sudden uncontrollable urge to bring guns to work." Arenas attests that the entire ordeal was in no way his fault, rather, it is the fault of video game industry for their excessive use of violence and "making it look so cool." Senator Joseph Lieberman has quickly jumped to Arenas's aid, starting a campaign to clear the maligned basketballers name called "Don't Blame Gil, Blame Video Games." "Games like Grand Theft Auto or Halo, they only exist to take normally sane people and turn them into malicious killers," Lieberman said, addressing congress on Tuesday. "Innocent, impressionable, slow minded people like Gilbert Arenas. And it's just wrong. Let's put a stop to video games-I mean violence. Violence in video games." Arenas went on to add that other reasons he brought guns to work were Eminem and Marilyn Manson's music, and the foul language he heard on South Park.
by Daniel Strauss
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