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Indecent Game Sales Now A Felony In New York
Gamespot reports on the final passing of New York senate bill A8696, legislation proposed just last week, that now makes it a serious felony to sell or rent a violent game to minors. The bill makes it illegal to sell a console without parental control options and establishes a group to second guess the ESRB's rating decisions. "'This bill is impermissibly vague,' EMA president Bo Andersen said in a statement. 'A8696 seeks to apply real-world standards of violence to the fictional and fanciful world of video games, an environment in which they have no meaning. As a result, retailers and clerks will not and cannot know with certainty which video games could send them to jail under A8696. It was depressing to hear members of the Assembly note the constitutional problems with the bill and then state that they were voting for it.'" The senate seems to have no fear of possible overturn of the bill, and claims it's only thinking of the children.
New York does have what most people call "reasonable restrictions" on handgun ownership. Helping much? Britain banned most guns and is now most monitored society in Europe. I'll take gang bangers blasting each other (95% of murders) over being completely monitored by government.
he asks if it follows the original intentions of the Founding Fathers, which gets in the way of any rational debate.
Which side really wants rational debate?
The anti-gunners do not want rational debate. If they did, they wouldn't include 20 year old gang bangers in the statistics on "child gun deaths". If they did, they wouldn't pass gun laws that DOJ itself says had very little effect on crime (the "assault weapon" ban). What they want is to tell you guns are bad, tell you that the elite upper class should be able to have them and/or control who has them, and for you to believe them without questioning anything.
When they have to basically lie to make their point, that ought to tell you something.
It is legal in NY for women to walk around topless if they wish in public. They past that law somewhere in the 90s here in NY. So it is perfectly legal for a young teen to see tits in public, but not digitaly in videogame? It is also still legal to go to a New York Yankee's game and hear the fat beer drinking bastard behind you scream out "Hey Jeter.. GO FUCK YOUR MOTHER YOU HALF NIGGER"
Thats still legal in ny.
But buying a game with simulated FAKE violence, where no one dies, no one cries, and its all just an imaginary thing in your head.... that is illegal.
BTW it is still legal for the NYPD to shove plungers up your ass. So dont sell that copy of GTA to that 15 year old. God forbid they beable to buy something, they were able to buy the last 30 years.
Games are the problem! They ruin EVERYTHING!. Thank Hillary for this one. She is on a crusade against games. Dont vote for the cunt. I'm in NY and she hasnt done a dam thing for the city. Vote for Obama instead... of if you have some real balls, vote independent. Stop putting these tools into office.
I hope they soon figure out a violent and indecent videogame is, that way we can outlaw all other kinds of indecent material... starting with speech like Nappy headed hos. We really need to rid this country of free speech. We cant grasp the concept of freedom in this country.
America fucking sucks. YOU listening world. Even we hate this fucking country. Its a god dam prison and the wardens are full of bullshit.