Posted on 06/30/2011 4:39:19 PM PDT by TheDingoAteMyBaby
What is wrong with Americans having some control over what can be sold to their children by government licensed businesses?
There is quite a bit of difference between CALL OF DUTY and GTA-Ghetto Pimpin.
When I was a child, we had toy guns and played WAR all the time. We did not, however, play RAPE AND PILLAGE.
Yes, they are. Once the federal government assumes the authority to tell your state legislature they can't do something today, they've also assumed the authority to tell the they must do it sometime down the road if they change their minds. You want that?
Yeah. No good kid ever lied or fooled their involved parents and got their tit in a ringer. Why sure.
You are supporting the state doing the parents job. On a conservative site I am astounded at posters doing so.
Reality is not a stagnant thing. What you and I grew up in is gone forever.
The law, such as it is forbids x rated billboards and so by the law we live under, for better or worse, there are none. Porn to the Muslim is an exposed ankle. Porn to most people involves nudity and or sex.
Do I think there are plenty of disgusting crap out there? Yes. Do I like it? No. But back on point, Show me the definitive proof that video games cause anything but a good time or frustration in the player. Because you do not personally like something or I do not personally like agree etc with something does not merit government intervention.
Not a road I care to travel.
Govt bans Christian churches as they offend muslims
Govt bans Heterosexual marriage because it offends homosexuals...
Se where this crap leads?
Maybe the point is that these children don't have a MOM and DAD. Or at least ones who CARE what their children are doing.
Oh cry me a river that the state can't control your kid!
“Im not about to hand the roll of parent over to the state.”
While we may disagree on the details of parenting, we agree totally here. I am 100% behind you. It is the parents job, whatever/however that parent chooses, Period.
All kids have lied and gotten in trouble. The difference is being raised to feel ashamed. Of course it's different now parents have given the state control and instead of feeling shame they can go to jail and have a record. Yesiree we need MORE laws!
Not if Americans deemed them inappropriate for children, what changed from our first 180 years, was that since the 1960s, the federal government has taken over every aspect of our lives, and we no longer run our communities, the feds do.
Only the federal government's "libertarianism" was strong enough to destroy America. Since they took over in the 1960s with the Warren court, we have become a broken, grungy, family unfriendly society.
Then I and all others should suffer the penalty of increased government in my/our life? Not just no...HELL NO!
The state isn't controlling the kids, it's controling the people selling the games. Get that through your head.
Those parents will buy the games for them or kiddie will have the money and get someone else to get it.
You have your history basackwards, it is your way that has put the feds in charge of our lives, they were not there before this new libertarian view that burst out from government since the 60s.
The law forbids it to be sold to a minor. That is controlling the kid. It should be the parents forbidding the kid, not government.
Get that through your head.
If you continue to be rude I will not respond to you.
Cry me a river. Nobody's taking your job as a parent away. You'll have to give it up willingly. If this is all that it takes to make you do that, you weren't much of a parent in the first place.
IT’s n-o-n-e of the government’s business what they sell to who!
It’s the PARENTS decision to allow it or not.
Let me ask you ... What’s wrong with the government telling the government licensed hospital to pull the plug on the kid that got hit by the car because it would cost too much to save him? Or 80 year old Granny because well, she’s 80?
Again...see where this goes?
I totally agree.
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