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FPS Games & Minors

[Nov 30, 2003, 4:34 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Bay Area Lawmaker Wants to Keep Minors from Buying Violent Video Games (thanks HomeLAN Fed) has word of an effort in the Bay Area to curtail minors' access to violent video games that would classify all first-person shooters as adult only by their very nature. Here's a bit:

Assemblyman Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) plans to introduce legislation this week that would keep minors from purchasing first shooter videogames, where players need to kill in order to advance.

“These first person shooter videogames really teach kids how to stalk and how to maim and torture and kill people,” Yee said. “That’s not what we should be doing for our kids.”

Yee is also a child psychologist, and he said, it is time to “draw the line.”

The bill would penalize retailers and other stores that sell the games to anyone under the age of 17. A second bill would require video game retailers to separate children's games from adult games.

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Re: Guide to the Well-Adjusted Child

Nov 30, 2003, 18:17

Von Helmet

kids are not stupid, they know games are games. That's not really true. Why do little kids do things like talk to the TV then? Kids are taught right from wrong from their parents, Are they? Not so much as they should be. Parents are doing a worse job raising their children by the minute. but we all have it in our minds we are not born stupid, if a kid cannot tell that it is wrong to murder someone and cannot tell the difference between real life and games then they already have problems. Yeah, problems that for a large part stem from bad parenting. How does a kid know that it's wrong to kill if they are never taught it? When you're young violence is a very viable option when it comes to getting your way, and if you never learn otherwise... Hey, anyone think I've got an axe to grind here?

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Comment [quote="Von Helmet"Nov 30, 2003, 18:17]q[kids are not stupid, they know games are games.]q That's not really true. Why do little kids do things like talk to the TV then? q[Kids are taught right from wrong from their parents,]q Are they? Not so much as they should be. Parents are doing a worse job raising their children by the minute. q[but we all have it in our minds we are not born stupid, if a kid cannot tell that it is wrong to murder someone and cannot tell the difference between real life and games then they already have problems.]q Yeah, problems that for a large part stem from bad parenting. How does a kid know that it's wrong to kill if they are never taught it? When you're young violence is a very viable option when it comes to getting your way, and if you never learn otherwise... Hey, anyone think I've got an axe to grind here? [/quote]

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