'Games as Porn' Bill Passes Utah House

The state bill which attempts to equate gaming with pornography has passed the vote in the Utah house of representatives. GameDailyBiz reports: "Even though there's still no evidence of a direct link between video game violence and acts of violence committed in real-life, Hogue suggested that playing violent games leads to 'automatic learning of aggressive behavior,' and that violent games have played a role in school shootings. 'Would these same kids have done this anyway without watching violent videos? Maybe not,' he said, referring to the Columbine massacre."

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Try to remember...

[maxpublic]

Try to remember that this nonsense is coming from the great state of Utah, one of the most backwards and repressed places in the entire First World. What exactly did you expect from a political entity which, Constitution be damned, is essentially controlled by the Mormon church?

Max

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[Ruprecht the Monkeyb]

Why should your inability to raise non-psychopathic children result in my not being able to own a firearm for self-defense?

Re:Number of good things to come out of Utah:

[plover]

I-15 came out of Utah. That's a good thing, or else a lot of people would still be stuck there.

Just one more shameful bill from the Utah Leg.

[An Onerous Coward]

In other news, they're working on a bill requiring teachers to say that evolution is just one among many theories. They're working on a bill to ban gay/straight alliance clubs from high schools. They've decided that Utah's future economic growth depends heavily on new roads, but not at all on education.

Every morning, my local public radio station does a legislative summary from the non-partisan League of Women Voters. A good day is one when I only have four or five stomach-clenching moments of impotent rage. Our legislators are not reasonable, not competent, and not listening to anything but the "still small voice" that they think is the Holy Spirit talking directly into their miniscule brains.

Good response letter from the Salt Lake City Weekly: (scroll down to "Gamers Know Reality"). At least a few of us still have some sense. Just nowhere near a voting majority.