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Michigan Violent Game Bill Ruled Unconstitutional
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| 3 April 2006
Posted on 04/04/2006 9:37:02 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: Fractal Trader
critical shortcomings of law enforcement? you mean like the eaton county deputy that (allegedly) shot himself and filed a false report against a fictional black man?
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posted on
04/04/2006 1:53:21 PM PDT
by
absolootezer0
("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
To: Fractal Trader; Quick1; indcons; somniferum; KoRn; Duke Nukum; expat_brit; ...
Video game ping!
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posted on
04/04/2006 2:59:12 PM PDT
by
Sofa King
(A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
To: Between the Lines
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posted on
04/04/2006 3:00:36 PM PDT
by
Sofa King
(A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
To: mlc9852
Only an aqwful, awful parent has to watch their kids 24/7. If you're kid is 15 and you are constantly monitoring him, then you have failed as a parent, and the monitoring of your kid is simply damage control.
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posted on
04/04/2006 3:52:24 PM PDT
by
Quick1
(There is no Theory of Evolution. Just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows to live.)
To: Quick1
I on the other hand, fail at English.
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posted on
04/04/2006 3:52:47 PM PDT
by
Quick1
(There is no Theory of Evolution. Just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows to live.)
To: Quick1
Well said. A child in today's society is going to be exposed to things here and there that his parents would prefer he wasn't, but good parenting isn't that fragile. A parent teaching their kid right from wrong is going to easily outweigh the kid seeing Doom3 at his friend's house a few times.
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posted on
04/04/2006 3:57:05 PM PDT
by
Sofa King
(A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
To: albertp; Allosaurs_r_us; Abram; Americanwolfsbrother; AlexandriaDuke; Americanwolf; Annie03; ...
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posted on
04/04/2006 4:04:24 PM PDT
by
JTN
("I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.")
To: All
Can we stop pretending that 16 year olds are children. They aren't children, they are adults. They are still stupid, but they aren't impressionable 6 year olds. 16 year olds drive, have relationships with the opposite sex, work jobs, make decisions like where to go to college. If you can't trust your kid not to go on a murder streak when you aren't watching them 24/7 then you failed as a parent.
Do you really think it should be illegal for a 17 year old to buy a Ghost Recon video game (Ironically a French and Canadian companies makes a really good game about American troops saving the world), when in 6 months he'd be old enough to actually join the Army and kill real people?
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posted on
04/04/2006 4:14:04 PM PDT
by
RHINO369
To: Fractal Trader
This marks the sixth court in three years to rule video game sales as being unconstitutional. Emphasis mine.
Video game sales being unconstitutional??
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posted on
04/04/2006 4:33:16 PM PDT
by
FourPeas
To: PittsburghAfterDark
"This is just political posturing for special interests and completely pointless."
That is exactly right. Toss a few bones to the social conservatives and see if they'll bark for you. I predict we'll see a lot more of these articles and efforts in the coming months, trying to energize the authoritarian right to get out to vote.
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posted on
04/04/2006 4:34:48 PM PDT
by
LibertarianInExile
(Freedom isn't free--no, there's a hefty f'in fee--and if you don't throw in your buck-o-5, who will?)
To: LibertarianInExile
This is one issue that the authoritarian right (not to be confused with the "religious right", though there is overlap) can agree on with Hillary - it is clear that 'the people' don't know what is good for them and need to be controlled. Maybe throw in a "for the children".
In the light of facts, there is no "crisis" to bemoan.
This data is from U.S. Department of Justice - Bureau of Justice Statistics. The particular chart is from here.
![](http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/viort.gif)
Superimposed below are a few video game related dates, to give context for the timespan.
![](http://www.gamerevolution.com/oldsite/articles/violence/doj_chart_1.gif)
All that has increased is media coverage of rarer and rarer events. If it wasn't for pesky things like facts and reality, the authoritarians may actually have a point.
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posted on
04/04/2006 5:52:58 PM PDT
by
M203M4
To: cripplecreek
So should sales of all other products be legalized to minors?
To: Republican Wildcat
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posted on
04/04/2006 5:58:14 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: cripplecreek
Well, why not? Shouldn't it be the parents that are responsible?
To: Republican Wildcat
Stupid questions like that sometimes make me wonder if I've somehow slipped into the DU.
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posted on
04/04/2006 6:02:23 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: cripplecreek
I was just repeating what you said above. I agree it is stupid.
To: Texaggie79
How does your 10 year old have enough money to buy a game in the first place? Time to shrink that allowance a bit.
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posted on
04/04/2006 8:14:12 PM PDT
by
Quick1
(There is no Theory of Evolution. Just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows to live.)
To: M203M4; qam1
Phenomenal chart. And phenomenal post BUMP!
I wonder if it could also show when the average Gen-Xer began parenting? Arbitrarily picking between the arguable dates Strauss & Howe choose (1960-1980) and the dates many others seem to prefer (1965-1980) and arriving at 1963 as the starting date for Gen X, then considering that the same generation usually hasn't married until age 27...maybe the likely cause of crime's nosedive is more evident than some would admit. Of course, it could be that videogames actually prevent crime, too.
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posted on
04/04/2006 8:59:04 PM PDT
by
LibertarianInExile
(Freedom isn't free--no, there's a hefty f'in fee--and if you don't throw in your buck-o-5, who will?)
To: Quick1
Dood, have you seen rich parents and how much money they give their kids now days? Not all rich parents, but a lot of them do.
I am quite the avid gamer and it's freaking amazing how many kids are on these online games. And the games really aren't the worst part, it's the community. Imagine your kid hanging out at a dorm house and listening in to the casual types of conversations that go on there.
These online games are full of it, and I cannot count how many kids I see come on.
How do I know they are kids and not just someone saying they are 12, 13 ext? Well some of the games I play have voice communication in them. And that type of language and subject matter that you would hear at a frat house is talked all around them.
Also, I help to run a multigaming faction. That's like an online gamers club, were friends play different online games together. When you have a large clan, guild, or faction (or whatever the certain's game term for gaming club) you typically get alot of new recruits. We have voice communication servers for our club and we hear these kids come on, wanting to join. They are the most foul mouthed, perverted kids. Course, there are some uncorrupted kids out there too, we allow them to join.
I have actually considered running a service that would be like a "family safe" gaming environment, with servers in all games, forums ext. Because there are just so many young kids out there who's parents give them complete high speed access on computers in their room.
I mean, it's not like I can tell these kids "hey, go tell your parents to take your computer out of your room and put it in the family room". They would laugh at me.
But ya, all these kids buy their own games all the time. Their parents having no clue as to what they are buying.
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posted on
04/04/2006 9:22:06 PM PDT
by
Texaggie79
(Did I just say that?)
To: JTN
Utah found a way to do it.
HB 257 passed overwhelmingly (56-8) by a vote in the Utah House of Representatives. The bill adds violent games to the Child Pornography law. It will be a felony for an adult to provide a minor the Grand Theft Auto video game.
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posted on
04/04/2006 10:47:20 PM PDT
by
mugs99
(Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
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