Violent Video Games for kids are OK according to.....

I'm sorry, but if I want to make these things available to my child, I can get them for her myself.

Should they be selling children smokes and alcohol and prostitutes, too? I mean, freedom of speech and all, right?

No parent can be with their children 24 hours per day. There should be no real need to worry that they'll run to the corner store and purchase smokes, a quick fuck, and a violent video game while they're "out for a walk".

Sure they can get them now, but right now you have recourse against anyone who sells them those things. And well we should.

The rating should be enforced.

I agree that I should be the one to decide if my child gets those things.

NOT THE LOCAL STORE.

Where do you draw the line at what should be openly available to KIDS? Shouldn't my 4 year old be able to buy some booze and drink it all? How about some smokes, why shouldn't she be able to buy those?

Okay, sure, I'm always with her. So let's say a 15 year old. Why shouldn't alcohol be readily available to 15 year olds so they can get trashed whenever they want to, and anyone who wants to buy for them can do so and get them as drunk as possible?

Yeah. PARENTS should be the ones to decide these things.. NOT the store.

The store should say, "No" just like they should with alcohol and tobacco and numerous other things that are detrimental to kids.

If mom and dad want little Johnny to play "kill the president and rape his wife" video game, THEY can buy it for him.

I see the point about freedoms, but the ones that defend giving violent video games to kids, have shit for brains. Do you give toxic Chinese crap to your kids too?

totally...

Very true. They won't just ban violent games for kids they will ban them for everyone. People need to realise that we have to learn to make our own decisions, otherwise we will continue living in a police state where our governments tells us everything we can or can't do.

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well said and totally true. do you want the government to tell you what to eat, drink and buy? I mean they already own the media. Can't you take responsibility for yourself and any kids you have?

Bugs Bunny was violent, Tom and Jerry... Cmon its just entertainment media.

They can't go buy them have you tried to buy a mature rated game every retail store I have been to checks your ID to make sure your 18.

Yeah, let's keep government to its traditional role of protecting the profits for corporations...

of course man, how about this, all you dumb fucks out there who are sheltering your sweet little child from all the evil in the world, and all the private schooling because you want your child to be elite and never have to go to school with a poor kid, all the while pumping half of them full of ADD drugs and shit, guess what? your children's future is fucked because they don't know shit, they experience nothing our parents did. KIDS ARE BECOMING WEAK AND POWERLESS because parents are too busy trying to censor everything they see, so they get a fucked up fake view of the world.

Bugs had an anti authoritarian, anti war message -- WW2 vets demanded no less for their kids. Definitely recommended viewing...

That must be a local thing.

"The sky is falling, the sky is falling!"

politicalism is a disease, get your story straight (in reference to your graphic). we live in a country where the left and right think that's all that exists. well if you don't agree with a conservative, you must be a liberal, and vice versa. fucking retards, they're all wrong and if you've bought into any of them, thank you for fucking all the rest of us over and supporting the evil that is our political/economical system. all you are voting for is war, period.

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I guess if you think Walmart or gamestop are a local thing. Video games have a rating system like movies. It goes E- for everyone. T- for teen M- for mature. Go to walmart and buy a M rated game and if you watch the display on their cash register it ask for ID same goes for gamestop and any major retail store

I learned classical music, most of the greats, through Bugs Bunny. It was a fantastic production for kids.

So I guess that means there is more involved then just violent videos, doesnt it?

Diffrent suits same assholes.

WTF are you smoking, dude? What, you're going to rape and strangle your kids so that they "grow up tough" or some shit?

Kids are exposed through simply LIVING to far more sex and violence from BIRTH than I was even 20 years ago as a young adult. The average exposure of kids to violence is far greater now than it used to be.

NEVER did we have school shootings, NEVER did we have kids killing their parents. When someone was raped it was a HUGE deal because it just didn't happen. Theft? No.

We ran around outside all the time and we didn't lock our doors because THERE WASN'T A REASON TO. Kids weren't getting abducted constantly and nobody worried so long as the kids were home at night.

You're full of utter and complete shit. KIDS were not exposed to that kind of crap, and the world was a better place.

Now you can't live life without your kids being exposed to it from fucking birth, no matter what you do.

You have it all backwards. Our parents and our generation were stronger because life was simpler and there was far less stress. Kids weren't stressed and parents didn't have to worry all the time about their kids--only about bills and wars and generalized things.

You're living in a fucking la-la land if you think that exposing children to violence is some magic panacea to make them stronger. In point of fact, the opposite is generally the case. Children who had comfortable and positive upbringings tended to be quite a bit stronger--because they had a firm foundation for life. They felt secure and had faith in their parents' ability to protect them.

Unlike children who now have to face the possibility of being shot at school while mom and dad are nowhere around.

Poor kids? WTF does that have to do with anything? Unless you're trying to claim that only poor kids can be thugs, in which case, you classist fuck, go suck your own shit.

Well, I don't frequent Wal-Mart and there's only one Gamestop here that I know of.

I've been in local places, and watched kids buy games that were definitely rated M.

At least one of those times was at Gamestop, too. The kid behind the register probably wasn't old enough to be purchasing them himself, and he didn't bat an eye. But the manager was beside him and helped him with the transaction because the guy had a trade-in.

I recall it in particular because I was impatient and irritated by the kid's general slow demeanor (and I don't mean simple-minded, I mean, he just acted like he was high and moved really, really slowly).

you are a fucking moron to dig as deep as you did. i didn't say any of that shit. yea poor kids, we live in a country where believe it or not, many upscale folks would never let their kids go to school alongside middle class (poor) students, fuck i'm in texas that shit is on every corner. so fuck you man, and it wasn't simple for our grandparents you moron, simpler "compared" to our generations, but every generation has had plenty to worry about. what fucking planet do you live on asswipe? you should probably never read a book either because you read so far between the lines that you would never get the real message.

In all realistic terms, anyone that refuses to believe that immersive environments of any kind have profound influences on behavioral dynamics is just another black sheep sold out to the all mighty dollar.

Our laws and leaders are chained by the balls to corruption.

Yup I was born and raised in texas and if your family was poor you were treated like white trash. I remember not getting to play sports because my family was poor growing up. Sure they let you on the team but when games came around all the poor kids including myself got to sit on the bench while the rich kids got to play.

Sandi is right. There is more involved than the issue of "violent videos". It's the message in the bottle. It's the marketing of violence for violence sake, its the mixing of violence and sex. It's the commercials that glorify the product,,, aimed at kids. This is just a tiny tip of the iceberg. There is so much more involved, and you expanded on quite a few themes yourself -- all wrong or misguided. If it was up to me I would ban ALL marketing directed at kids, and burn violent videos along with the retailers that peddle them. Is that "liberal" enough for ya?

The rating system should be enforced. Best Buy's registers are programed to check ID, but it ultimately falls on the cashier to hand it over or not.

There are hefty fines for selling M rated games to underage consumers.

Personally, I don't think violent games should be played by young people, however it comes down to why people play video games.

Most people don't play videogames to do the same mundane thing they can go outside and actually do. So to a young person, the appeal to drive a car, or fly an airplane, or explore another planet, or gun down a pedestrian is defiantly large. why? Because you can't normally do any of these things. And it's fun.

Its because people like you that we live in a police state. You think you have the right to tell others how to live their lifes.

Study how fascism gains control over hearts and minds. Then come back to me about a "police state".

They do I know for sure the last 6 I have bought I was asked for my ID and Im 26 years old

If this is the case then why did the Supreme Court rule on it? Does this mean that retailers dont have to rate them anymore because it infringes on toddlers freedom of speech, or choice or whatever the fuck they said? If I was a retailer I would interpret it as such...