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.
Well that's a sweeping generalization Von Helmet. I am a young guy and I have been playing very violent video games, watching violent movies, watching violent TV and playing violent games since I was a child.
I'm also a completely normal, functioning person. It's up to parents, not the government to tell kids what they can and can't play with. If any parent can't recognize mental problems in their own child, then they aren't fit to be a parent.
We don't have seperate sections for violent movies at the video store, violent books at the library or a "violent music" section at the music store. It's up to parents to talk to their kids and find out if violence is effecting their minds.
I'm also a completely normal, functioning person. It's up to parents, not the government to tell kids what they can and can't play with. If any parent can't recognize mental problems in their own child, then they aren't fit to be a parent.
We don't have seperate sections for violent movies at the video store, violent books at the library or a "violent music" section at the music store. It's up to parents to talk to their kids and find out if violence is effecting their minds.
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