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.
I think where this law intends to go is this:
Johnny, 13, goes and buys a game that is rated MA. Assuming a law is passed that makes it illegal for anyone under 17 to buy this game, his mom/dad finds out and gets very upset. 30 min later mom/dad comes storming into the video game store and demands to know why they sold their kid a MA rated video game. After venting for a few min they leave and go to a lawyer and demand the store be fined for breaking the law, same process a store would get for selling alcohol to minors.
So is this law, if enforced, going to make children less violent or protect them in some way? Can you also argue that keeping kids from seeing R rated movies makes them less violent and protects them? We already restrict access to movies and we have violence in schools that is appauling.
Johnny, 13, goes and buys a game that is rated MA. Assuming a law is passed that makes it illegal for anyone under 17 to buy this game, his mom/dad finds out and gets very upset. 30 min later mom/dad comes storming into the video game store and demands to know why they sold their kid a MA rated video game. After venting for a few min they leave and go to a lawyer and demand the store be fined for breaking the law, same process a store would get for selling alcohol to minors.
So is this law, if enforced, going to make children less violent or protect them in some way? Can you also argue that keeping kids from seeing R rated movies makes them less violent and protects them? We already restrict access to movies and we have violence in schools that is appauling.
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