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"Noel Gallagher has said that last week&amp;#039;s riots across England were a result of an &amp;quot;age of violence&amp;quot;. The ex-Oasis songwriter also blamed TV and video games for the disturbances in London, Manchester, Birmingham and elsewhere. Gallagher told Bang Showbiz: &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t understand where their energy for these riots is coming from. &amp;quot;We live in this age of violence - and I don&amp;#039;t care what other people say - brutal TV and brutal video games are a reason for this pointless violence as well. &amp;quot;The people are immune to violence, they are used to it. And if they get caught they aren&amp;#039;t punished the right way. The prisons are already full? Then build new ones!&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Charlie Simpson: &amp;#039;UK riots weren&amp;#039;t political&amp;#039; &amp;gt; Suggs: &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m not too bothered by UK riots&amp;#039; &amp;gt; Russell Brand: &amp;#039;David Cameron must make rioters feel included&amp;#039; He continued: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s crazy! It&amp;#039;s just violence for the sake of violence. The people who are at these riots aren&amp;#039;t poor. These are kids with f**king mobile phones and all sorts of s**t. The police and government have to take drastic measures.&amp;quot; Gallagher claimed that the &amp;quot;stupid&amp;quot; rioters &amp;quot;have no goals&amp;quot; and added: &amp;quot;There aren&amp;#039;t any reasons! There&amp;#039;s a guy who gets shot - a gangster if I may add that, who had a gun. &amp;quot;If you live by the sword, you die by the sword! Then suddenly there are riots everywhere. There is no reason for that. It&amp;#039;s just pointless violence of f**king idiots.&amp;quot; The Pretty Green shop on King Street in central Manchester belonging to Gallagher&amp;#039;s estranged brother and former bandmate Liam was looted on Tuesday night. A man was later sentenced to eight months in prison for the offence. &amp;gt; Speech Debelle: &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;d have joined London riots as a teen&amp;#039; &amp;gt; Kate Nash on UK riots: &amp;quot;We need to focus on the positive&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Wayne and Coleen Rooney, Simon Cowell donate \u00C2\u00A350,000 to riot fund "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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