Dupe-please lock

[Freddie Stubbs]

By Associated Press


CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Rod Blagojevich proposed making it a crime today to sell violent or sexually explicit video games to minors, a step other states have tried with little success.

Blagojevich said he would push for legislation during the coming session that would make it a misdemeanor to distribute, sell or rent mature video games to children younger than 18. He said he decided to crack down after hearing about the new video game ``JFK Reloaded,'' which puts the player in the role of President Kennedy's assassin.

``We're talking about violent games that use realistic depiction of human-on-human violence. Video games that include dismemberment and disfigurement. Video games where the kids control the process,'' Blagojevich said today. ``They're the ones who cut people's heads off.

``If you're 18 or older and you're a grown up and an adult, that's your business. But I don't believe that my 8-year-old daughter has a constitutional right to cut somebody's head off in a game that she plays.''

more: http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1041643&l=1&t=Iowa+%2F+Illinois&c=24,1041643

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. Then don't buy the game for your 8 year old, you idiot!

My husband has all of the Vice City games, and loads of other games that the kids don't get to play. It's called PARENTING. Maybe they should try it sometime.

[Sannum]

3. You are so right!

I think we need to get to a point where we admit that Yes, some things are for adults. I am sick of legislating morality.

[DrWeird]

2. Dupe.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1076880

Fuckin' savages.