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.
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.
If we were to dig a little deeper, I think we'd find that those kids had MUCH bigger real life problems than a fondness for GTA.
Oh, and from the article you linked to:
"Baehr also reminded parents that there are plenty of other videogames, including Christian ones, for children and teenagers that have little or no violence and that certainly don't have any sexual content or nudity in them."
Gotta love how these Christian groups always seem to think that sexual content or nudity are much worse than violence. And yet they have the nerve to lecture others about priorities.
"God isn't interested in technology. He cares nothing for the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time, forty-three species of parrots! Nipples for men!"
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell (I think...)
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