That's entirely different than the original discussion. Aside from that there already are age restrictions on FPS game purchases.
Beyond that there is no way to fully ban children from accessing them. And I do not support locking up parents for letting their children play video games. How is it any different than playing Cowboys and Indians with cap guns in the backyard? There is no evidence to support such draconian measures.
As an example of zero tolerance stupidity....and I'll even use the example of porn - teenage boys and girls are getting charged with child porn crimes and a laundry list of others for sending naked pictures of each other via text message; basically the digital version of "I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours." Kids are having to register as sex offenders for life over stupid kid decisions.
We don't need more laws.
“How is it any different than playing Cowboys and Indians with cap guns in the backyard? “
In the video, he explained that the difference is that when someone is hurt, the game stops — whereas with FPS shooting, you are rewarded to make head explode, blood flowing and eviscerate the others.
It’s very different.
Grossman says that FPS videogame makers are addicting kids to video games for hours at a time, blasting away at humanoid targets that explode in very realistic blood and gore when you shoot them.
That does not happen when they play Indians and Cowboys.
In vidgames, when you pull the trigger, another virtual human explodes in hi-def blood and gore right in front of you. Grossman says that this rewires the cerebrum to be ready to pull the actual-trigger on actual living humans in a way that playing Indians and Cowboys never, ever did.
I’m off too. I don’t know yet what to think of it, but what’s sure is that Repeat Offender is right in that the bureaucracy is expansive and it could be very dangerous to add more laws banning products; and that Norm is right in that more data are needed to back up the thesis that FPS vidgames train kids to become potential killers, if not actual ones.
I’m sorry for all my typos! And thank you for your generous and relevant feedbacks. I shall read more of Grossman, and will get back to you if I find very relevant data.