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DC Could Ban 'Mature' Video Game Sales to Minors
DeathPooky writes "As a part of an effort to continue a reduction in crime in the nation's former murder capital, DC leaders are trying to pass a law banning the sale of mature video games to minors - along with harsh penalties to enforce the law. According to the article, 'A store that violates the law could lose its business license and face a fine of as much as $10,000.' This law mimics other such bans proposed in Virginia and Maryland. I can already feel the chilling effects from here."
i really don't like all you fucking americans. die quietly please.
In Europe I think you'll find we have equal if not more morals than in the states.
Europe is utterly and completely irrelevant in the world today precisely because you have no morals anymore.
The UN is the bastion of that example. The EU isn't as bad yet because it's playing catch up.
Your thousands of years of Western civilisation are mostly European in origin, remember that.
Our morals do not come from that source and Europe has left them far behind. Europe is in decline and America is the world's only super-power. I know that's why you're so hostile and touchy about it, but perhaps you should ask yourself why it is.
I'm not going to respond to most of this flamebait. However...
America is the world's only super-power? Really? Have you checked?
Yup. I checked. America is the only remaining super-power.
I seem to recall this super-power is being given the run-around by a load of Iraqi insurgents.
Being given the run-around? Listen, I'm sorry that those on the left in America and all of Europe are too cowardly to deal with war anymore, but less than 1500 casualties in the amount of time we've been there is hardly "being given the run-around." It's overwhelming success. There were more than that lost on each side many single days in World War II. What's going on in Iraq is barely a war. It's an American smackdown. Shock and awe.
If you do a lot of extrapolation...
You are clearly good at that. It takes a lot of extrapolation, or oversimplification to the point of distortion, to make the claim that the morals of the Bible "come from the middle east."
because the US has proven they can be beaten in Vietnam, and they're not doin so well over in Iraq either it would seem.
Not doin' so well? How so? Do you repeat whatever you hear on CNN or do you have some sort of thought process here?
while Hussein had to be taken from power, the basis of the war was WMD's.. then when they didn't find anything, it was to liberate the people? Right.
Nope. It never was just about WMD's and it never has been, or is now, about liberating the people; that's a nice side effect.
Let me tell you what Bush can't say publicly:
It was about taking out a nasty bastard that had threatened us, had attacked us and would've attacked us again as soon as he had the chance.
Apparently you haven't.
Gotcha. Now we're getting somewhere.
1. Since the whole of Europe (emphasis on "the whole" -- I know there were exceptions) was too cowardly to enforce the very UN resolutions for which they had voted, The U.S. did it "alone" (as the media likes to pretend).
I'm a libertarian, but I thank God every day that there's a Texan in the White House. I often disagree with him, but he's got enough courage to make up for the lack of it in his European counterparts. As a result, Saddam Hussein is sitting in prison as opposed to building chemical and biological weapons or overseeing rape rooms.
2. See France, Germany, UN, Oil for food scandal.
3. Our morals are certainly not from a European source. You may have heard that we fought a war that we won in 1776. It was over morals. "We" had them and fought to keep them.
I don't give a rats ass what America does, as long as they don't drag my country into their business
...just about everyone showing the press briefings of Colon Powell having a blown up image on a stand, pointing at what looks like a rectangle, saying its a truck with a chemical warfare lab inside.
We couldn't possibly. Canada is far too pacifist to ever go to war.
You should be thankful that we're the ones to your south and we take care of the bad guys so you don't have to.
Would you rather share a border with Iraq or the U.S.?
A chemical warfare lab in a truck.
Guess what, Sparky. We KNOW, yes KNOW, that Hussein had chemical and biological weapons and the capacity to produce more. Have you heard anything about the satellite images showing trucks crossing the Syrian border just before our troops invaded?
Or would you rather just ignore that because it doesn't fit into your CNN world view?
Blacks and hispanics commit most of the violent crime in the US, and fortunately they keep most of the crime in their own communities. Occassionaly there will be an incident like the recent actress in NYC, but that's worth the risk. The fact is these weapons help keep their numbers down and get rid of the more violent offenders ... Darwinism in action.
Now in my white community and other white communities these incidents are unheard of, even though household handgun ownership is universal. The same goes for other white countries with relaxed gun laws. Race more than anything dictates crime.
going to change the murder rate among D.C. nigger drug dealers?
Which is where ninety percent of the murder rate in D.C. comes from...
Oh, it doesn't? Then how come when word went around Leavenworth that a bunch of D.C. niggers were being transferred there that the Leavenworth inmates (the white ones, anyway) were pissed off because D.C. niggers had a rep for being disruptive overly violent assholes - even in comparison to Leavenworth niggers?
That's right - I used the "N" word - just like every black prison inmate does 24/7...and just like I use the word "redneck" to refer to rural white assholes or "punk" to refer to urban white assholes...
And I don't give a rat's ass if anyone doesn't like it...
If a black doesn't act like a nigger, I'll stop calling him one...
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!