The US Supreme Court rules against California, gamers rejoice!

[Joelcool7]

mrstickball said:

oldschoolfool said:
I disagree with this ruling. People say leave it up to the parents,but the kind of parents you have are different then when I was growing up. Back in the day when you parents told you to do something you did it. They put the fear of god in you so to speak,but no aday's you have these parent's just letting there kids run wild and letting them do whatever they want. "I'm sorry I yelled at you little timmy;" this is the reason you always have govment,teacher's and other people always trying to step in,because parent's don't want to be parent's these days,plain and simple. For these reason's I have to disagree with this ruling.

So if you believe the government should rule over the home in the case of violent video games, I am sure you approve of them teaching kids about homosexuality, sex education, and other such issues, correct?

I'm on the fence about this issue. I agree partially with OldSchoolGamer and partially with the rest of you.

PS Mrstickball the Government already teaches kids about homosexuality, sex education and other issues. If the Government is already going to educate the kids why should video games be any different?

As for Old School Gamer's point, all this would do is put the parent in charge. The law said minors wouldn't be able to buy M rated games , basically that means the parent would then have to permit purchasing an M rated game. This wouldn't fix bad parenting as Kantor pointed out. But it would mean parents would be directly responsable for what their kids play.

Now others have pointed out several retailers have policies against selling M rated games to minors. But guess what not all do. Also if the industry itself is going to ban the sale of M rated games to minors where the heck is the problem with the Government backing the retailers in their decision?

Also since I'm an adult from Canada I could care less what California does. Especially since its not that unreasonable.

If I have kids and I tell my kid he can't buy this M rated game, he decides to go buy it anyway. I'd be pretty pissed, now granted I don't think the Government should teach our kids, but heck the law would sure help me if I was a parent.

Also I'm sick and tired of five year olds on Halo or GTA etc...etc... I council at a summer camp. Last year a twelve year old came to camp and was obsessed with Left4Dead. All he'd talk about is hacking zombies to peices blowing up a tank. He started to scare the other kids talking about all the blood and guts and how their could be a zombie apocalypse. I had kids asking me "Are zombies going to take over the world". I finally had to talk to the kid, I was like "I liked Left4Dead too, but aren't you alittle young to be playing it". He told me his mom told him he couldn't get it so he took his allowance and bought the game anyways and plays it behind his mom's back. I told him that was wrong and he is too young to be playing Left4Dead.

Fact is if this was law little kids like that wouldn't be playing Left4Dead or GTA or F3ar! Obviously retailers aren't doing a good enough job enforcing their no selling M games to minors. That twelve year old should never have had access to that game, his parent said no and the game was obviously way to violent and gory for a kid his age.

I can blame bad parenting like Old School did but honestly if the Government lets minors consume this stuff they are taking the power away from the parent and allowing the children to consume anything they want. The parent should be in charge.

I mean as a fourteen year old you can't go see an 18A movie in the theater without an adult, you can't rent an 18A movie from Rogers without an adult. Why should a 12 year old be able to buy a M rated game without the consent of an adult?