[apillar]

Good, this was a crappy "nanny" state law. The video game industry already has a rating system like the motion picture industry and virtually every retailer won't sell "mature" rated games to children. This was about making a WW II shoot em up equivalent to buying a pack of cigarettes or a X-rated magazine and most retailers would stop selling the games altogether rather than risk the fines or an onerous ID system, which would have a chilling effect on the gaming industry.

As someone who plays and enjoys "violent" video games, if you don't want your kids to play them, then don't buy them and if your 8 year old kid is running around with $60 bucks in his pocket and buying them behind your back, then you've got family problems worse than any violent video games.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The sad situation today is not the typical conservative’s kid but the children who scarcely even see a parent or guardian. Why, this is as easy as getting an abortion.

[SoCal Pubbie]

If it is a violation on minor’s rights to restrict the sale of video games to kids, how could the retailer now do so? Couldn’t the store owner be sued for doing go?