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.
So you don't think that tackling the problem of bad parenting is more important than the problem of buying violent videogames ? I personally think that educating and somehow (I don't know how, it's not an easy answer) making parents in North America better and more accountable for how they raise their children is more important.
And where does it end ? If a child kills because his warped mind couldn't comprehend what he read in the bible do we get the government to ban that too ? What about drugs ? If record numbers of kids start doing cocaine at 12 years old then who do we blame ? Well, we didn't blame the parents when the kids turned into killers so why blame the parents when they turn into drug addicts ?
The situation is somewhat like the war on drugs. The American government spends billions of dollars on stopping the traffic of drugs into the country (which is basically impossible) instead of focusing on what makes people over here want to do drugs in the first place. It is far easier for the government to deal with the supply rather than asking why there is a demand.
And where does it end ? If a child kills because his warped mind couldn't comprehend what he read in the bible do we get the government to ban that too ? What about drugs ? If record numbers of kids start doing cocaine at 12 years old then who do we blame ? Well, we didn't blame the parents when the kids turned into killers so why blame the parents when they turn into drug addicts ?
The situation is somewhat like the war on drugs. The American government spends billions of dollars on stopping the traffic of drugs into the country (which is basically impossible) instead of focusing on what makes people over here want to do drugs in the first place. It is far easier for the government to deal with the supply rather than asking why there is a demand.
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