Violent games sold to minors...

[cc_penguin]

Seems there is a bill to be passed in Georia to make it a misdemeanor to sell violent games to a minor. What are your thoughts, good or bad??


Oh, almost forgot <a href="http://www.legis.state.ga.us/Legis/2001_02/versions/hb1378_LC_19_5388_a_2.htm" target="_blank">the link </a>...

[Poseidon]

[quote]Originally posted by cc_penguin:
<strong>Seems there is a bill to be passed in Georia to make it a misdemeanor to sell violent games to a minor. What are your thoughts, good or bad??


Oh, almost forgot <a href="http://www.legis.state.ga.us/Legis/2001_02/versions/hb1378_LC_19_5388_a_2.htm" target="_blank">the link </a>...</strong><hr></blockquote>


Undecided.

I am a firm believer that it should be at the parent’s discretion; not too keen on the idea of it being a law though.

[Cleetus]

It scares me with the lengths the people in this nation will go to in order not to have to admit that they are failing as parents.

[[NeoZeeD]]

i think its good.

to many stupid kids and stupid adults now.

i remember when i was like 12 i would go with my friend and rent all the faces of death movies, the chick behind the counter didnt care.

when i was a kid the only real voilent video game was mortal kombat , the first one.

[Can't Catch Me]

It is scary to see the gov't getting involved in yet another facet of our private lives.

But I still wonder if it's the right thing to do - as video games have yet to be officially declared as a possible cause of violence in kids?

[Cleetus]

[quote]Originally posted by Alchemist:
<strong>It is scary to see the gov't getting involved in yet another facet of our private lives.

But I still wonder if it's the right thing to do - as video games have yet to be officially declared as a possible cause of violence in kids?</strong><hr></blockquote>

Not according to the bill. If you follow the bill it is a scientific fact that seeing blood in a game will cause a youth to be criminally violent. They state it as a fact that video game violence leads to RL violence. When was this agreed upon?

[Sowulo]

[quote]Originally posted by AbSoLuTeZeR0:
<strong>i think its good.

to many stupid kids and stupid adults now.

i remember when i was like 12 i would go with my friend and rent all the faces of death movies, the chick behind the counter didnt care.

when i was a kid the only real voilent video game was mortal kombat , the first one.</strong><hr></blockquote>

When I was a kid (50's and 60's) we all played 'Cops and Robbers'; 'Cowboys and Indians'; and 'Army'. All of our games were about violence, we dug pits for booby traps in the woods and set out blackberry cane snares, etc. Things haven't changed, things aren't worse, we've just changed our views about what's acceptible and pay a lot more attention to the things we deem socially unacceptable.....We would all do well to just quit worrying so much and especially quit pointing fingers and playing the blame game on parents and teachers. When you were little, was it possible for your parents to know everything you did? Of course not! We never did anything bad but we sure made the effort to keep things from our parents.....

[cc_penguin]

[quote]Originally posted by cleetus:
<strong>

Not according to the bill. If you follow the bill it is a scientific fact that seeing blood in a game will cause a youth to be criminally violent. They state it as a fact that video game violence leads to RL violence. When was this agreed upon?</strong><hr></blockquote>

To my understanding, the bill hasnt been passed yet, its just up for reveiw.

[KINGofBLEH]

[quote]Originally posted by cleetus:
<strong>It scares me with the lengths the people in this nation will go to in order not to have to admit that they are failing as parents.</strong><hr></blockquote>

AMEN Cleetus. This bill will do nothing to slow down the sales of violent video games to children. Instead, like prohibition, it will probably make the problem worse and increase the sale of violent games to minors.

[MacGyver]

Yet another useless law that will never be enforced. We can't even enforce the laws that we have.

[Quiet Thunder]

It seems all this blame on video games, rap music, and ect... are all just a scape goat for parents who don't want to accecpt the blame where blame is due. The blame is almost always deserving of the parents for allowing the kids to get away with such attitudes, and other times belongs the children for making such horrible decisions. I'm sorry, but when I go out and play Doom, it dosn't make me want to get a plasma gun and blow up some crazed floating head. Get real.

[x_789]

More laws to prevent bad parents try spaiding and nutering these idiot parents who cant monitor there kids

[Fubarian]

[quote]Originally posted by cc_penguin:
<strong>Seems there is a bill to be passed in Georia to make it a misdemeanor to sell violent games to a minor. What are your thoughts, good or bad??</strong><hr></blockquote>

bad. I grew up on the shoot 'em up, blow 'em up, bomb the hell of out 'em, is your or them kind of video games-- and still play them today (counterstrike anyone?)...I watched all the violent cartoons (tom and jerry rule) but I did know the difference between whats real and whats not. This is just making it easier on the parents to be lazy.

[[NeoZeeD]]

its good for stupid kids wont buy the gamez and try to blow everyone away.

but its up to the parents to raise the dam kid.


when i was in grammmer school my dad took me to see horror flicks at the movies, he even rented some horror flicks for i could watch. but i didnt go out and wanna kill people. i was just scared sh*tless at night

my parents where there and still are there for me and they give me WUUUUV


so i guess thats why im not a serial killer now.

[*SlyVenom*]

Originally posted by Evil Cabbage