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Planned California Bill Targets Video Game Sales

Posted by timothy on from the they-make-the-rules dept.

joeflies writes "'California Assemblyman Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, plans to introduce legislation making it illegal for minors to buy the most violent video games and requiring game dealers to separate youth games from adult offerings.' Story here from the Sacramento Bee."

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  1. Great idea! by DogIsMyCoprocessor · · Score: 5, Funny

    This must be inspired by the huge success of the war on drugs!

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  2. GTA 3... by sevensharpnine · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the article: "Nowadays, gamers can shoot cops, beat prostitutes and torch still-struggling victims."

    This reads like an advertisement for Grand Theft Auto III.

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  3. What? by sevensharpnine · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the article: "[It] would regulate the display of violent video games, requiring that games with a mature rating be stocked on a shelf separate from other games and at least five feet off the ground."

    Did I miss an important study or something? Do psychotic killers now average under five feet in height?

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  4. Re:Well, that makes sense by Saeger · · Score: 4, Funny
    Why is it so much worse to see someone get blown then to see them get their head blown off?

    Because sex embarrasses the bitter, hypocritical old farts, but violence and wargames are necessary to prime the next generation of warriors to go out and kill the other tribe's breeding heathens? :)

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  5. Re:Well why not? by kaybi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Children as old as 24?*

    * From some of the Concerned Women for America propaganda.

  6. Re:Well why not? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ahh yes, the classic "chess causes war" argument.

  7. Am I missing something? by ex_ottoyuhr · · Score: 5, Funny
    Quote from the article:

    "The games that I don't let this 13-year-old have are the games that have sexual content," said Michael Hill, who was shopping with his wife and son at Sacramento's Downtown Plaza. "Those are what worry me, not the violent ones."


    I didn't know that much of *anything* had sexual content yet. And assuming (as I hope) that he doesn't have GTA prostitutes in mind, what are these games he's thinking of and where do I buy a copy? Has this guy been importing Japanese dating sims for the express purpose of not giving them to his kids?

    Not to mention that the American perspective on violence vs. sexuality is rather badly fouled up, as many other posters already remarked. Sexual behaviors -- love and physical reproduction both -- are quite thoroughly natural to humans, for obvious reasons. But any human's one strongest inborn aversion is against doing harm to another human. Even armies have never done well in overcoming all of a person's instictive aversion to doing harm or taking life, and I suspect that the totally unnatural is a bit more harmful to kids than the obscure but natural.

    Someone tell these idiots that this isn't the 19th century any more, thank the Lord -- and that the US is no longer a frontier...