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.
Games like GTA have you as the bad guy... which is kinda weird
I know where you are coming from, but the point is that these kinds of games where you are playing the anti-hero don't cause people to go out and kill and there is little empirical evidence to say that it does.
Whilst I do think violent gaming in general would be an influence, there are deeper and harder to answer issues with the twisted people who actually do go out and murder others and then blame it on a third party (the devil, that film, that book, that game)
Modern (western) society is pretty screwed up on this front.
I know where you are coming from, but the point is that these kinds of games where you are playing the anti-hero don't cause people to go out and kill and there is little empirical evidence to say that it does.
Whilst I do think violent gaming in general would be an influence, there are deeper and harder to answer issues with the twisted people who actually do go out and murder others and then blame it on a third party (the devil, that film, that book, that game)
Modern (western) society is pretty screwed up on this front.
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