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.
Parents have to enforce the rules! Not retailers, not cops, PARENTS. If you have a kid and you tell him/her he can't play that game, GUESS WHAT, you'll have to watch him like a hawk, check his computer/xbox multiple times per day, sneak around his/her room while at school, eaves drop on him with his friends, meet his friends parents, find out if his friends have the game, monitor what he spends his money on, and that is just for starters! KIDS ARE SNEAKY LITTLE BASTARDS. I was!
Are you being sarcastic? I really can't tell. If you are, just ignore the following comments:
What is wrong with you? You wan't parents to spy on their kids, check around with other overly concerned parents to see if the kids are sevretly playing the games at each other's house? C'mon man. Its bad enough that every soccer mom out there doesn't let her kids swear, and freaks out every time someone is shot in a movie, we don't need them meddeling around in video games. Yes, almost every video games inolved killing people. So do most movies. Over protective parenting does accomplish anything, other than the kids being pissed at you for not allowing them to do something that is so obviously harmless. Its because of people like this that every time I switch on TBS (Superstation), every swear word is replaced with "snap" and "dang". If you seriously think that swearing, or porn, or pretend violence warps kids minds, then you really shouldn't be in a position to make any sorts of decisions regarding whats kids should and should not be allowed to do. Video games are not the reason that 15 year olds are running around in gangs, shooting each other. You know who is responsible for that? Parents not taking a interest in their kids lives. Plain and simple. Well that, and and the fact that kids grow up listening to "I'm 'a cap yo' ass nigga, then off to 'ma crib to smoke to chronic and mack them hoes."
Politicans and the soccer moms who encourage them ought to have some common sense, so that stuff like this doesn't actually get realized.
This comment was edited on Nov 30, 17:55.
Are you being sarcastic? I really can't tell. If you are, just ignore the following comments:
What is wrong with you? You wan't parents to spy on their kids, check around with other overly concerned parents to see if the kids are sevretly playing the games at each other's house? C'mon man. Its bad enough that every soccer mom out there doesn't let her kids swear, and freaks out every time someone is shot in a movie, we don't need them meddeling around in video games. Yes, almost every video games inolved killing people. So do most movies. Over protective parenting does accomplish anything, other than the kids being pissed at you for not allowing them to do something that is so obviously harmless. Its because of people like this that every time I switch on TBS (Superstation), every swear word is replaced with "snap" and "dang". If you seriously think that swearing, or porn, or pretend violence warps kids minds, then you really shouldn't be in a position to make any sorts of decisions regarding whats kids should and should not be allowed to do. Video games are not the reason that 15 year olds are running around in gangs, shooting each other. You know who is responsible for that? Parents not taking a interest in their kids lives. Plain and simple. Well that, and and the fact that kids grow up listening to "I'm 'a cap yo' ass nigga, then off to 'ma crib to smoke to chronic and mack them hoes."
Politicans and the soccer moms who encourage them ought to have some common sense, so that stuff like this doesn't actually get realized.
This comment was edited on Nov 30, 17:55.
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