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.
And since when do people magically become able to withstand gore and violence when they turn 17? I'm quite sure Mr. Yee has seen some R-rated violent movies in his day. He's probably even played a videogame. Did these movies turn him into a human killing machine? No. It's not going to be any different with kids.
I have in my MST3K collection a movie called Bloodlust that was filmed in the late 50's (stars Robert Reed from Brady Bunch I might add)... and I'd say it was particularly gruesome for its time. Hell, I could pick out any number of violent movies stretching back to when movies were first made. Where was the outrage then?
Before video games it was rock music that got a bad rap. I remember when Judas Priest was on trial because a fan killed himself. I remember when Tipper Gore was leading a crackdown on explicit lyrics. Elvis was banned because his antics onstage were 'too sexual'. And before that it was comic books that got a bad rap... more specifically crime and horror comics. This kind of 'outrage' keeps happening over and over again with no end in sight. When will people learn?
Obviously the media knows it can cash in on violent material, but censoring everything is not the answer. If parents don't want to take responsibility for raising their kids and blame everything else then this crap will never end.
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