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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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Jerry S Ku
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I live in the SF Bay area, and i think we gotta put this into context. Just this past couple years, a group of teenagers, who were all big fans of GTA, went on a large spree where they murdered 5 people, held up dozens of people at gun point, and so forth.

http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/11/2/211043.shtml

Here's the only article i could find right away, but if you dig further you'll
find that the spree of theirs was pretty damn large in scale. Probably
the biggest thing like this in the country I bet.

Personally I love Day of Defeat, but I don't really think I need it to be
violent to enjoy it. maybe I"ve killed SO many people that i've gotten
bored of that aspect and just want to be challenged in tactical ways. heh heh

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