You don't know anything about my kids... I discipline my kids... and so far so good... But you are not answering the true question...
Why can't the government forbid kids from buying games that are harmful?... Why can't we put restrictions like must be 21 or over to purchase... what is wrong with that?
Because what you think is harmful may differ from what I think is harmful, and both may differ from what some government bureaucrat thinks is harmful. It's easy to point to extreme disgusting examples and say that those games are obviously harmful (which means it should be easy for you to spot them and forbid your kids to buy them without any assistance from the government).
But what about the games which are in a gray area? The ones which you think teach bad moral lessons but your neighbor thinks are fine? Or vice versa? Once you grant the government the power to censor things which someone considers undesirable, it's awfully hard to limit that power. Soon the government will start forbidding games from creating a hostile gameplace environment which disparages various ethnic, religious, and other groups. All games will have to be sanitized and politically correct.
This is not the path that people who support individual rights and a free society should want to go down.
Simple. SHow me in the Constitution where it gives the FedGov the power to ban video games or even set "ratings".
Take your time. I'll wait.
21 to purchase? I thought the age of majority in this country was 18? What ius it with all you people restricting things like this for LEGAL ADULTS?
There's two things wrong with it:
1 - nobody has ever proven by even the slightest degree that ANY video game is harmful
2 - kids stop being kids at 18, old enough to vote old enough to buy what you want