That's insane, people should have no say in a matter that they have no idea about.

He was agreeing with you. "This" meant that he was pointing out your post and saying "I agree with this!" He then went on to say "I'm confused..." which meant "I'm also confused because I thought they were already doing this."

=P

Anyways, I'm also very confused. We have a rating's system.. I've even been carded before when buying an M game.

But there's already a law...what country are we talking about here?

lolwut? I thought this "law" was already enforced.

Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification. Seems like the the voters of this poll got me even more confused as before. Do I smell a double-standard here?

Instead of boxart, it should just have the name of the game and then a giant picture of "DO NOT SELL THIS GAME TO ANYONE UNDER 17" if it's an M game.

Think of Grand Theft Auto as the standard for ultraviolent, then take a look back at the console games prior to Grand Theft Auto 3. Sure Goldeneye had you killing soldiers, but there was no blowing off of limbs and the like. Now, there is not blowing off of limbs in any GTA game, but the multitude of ways you can kill pedestrians is ultraviolent.

Ultraviolence is not just your Soldier of Fortune complete limb from body dismemberment. Ultraviolence includes a multitude of real world crimes injected into a pixelated screen with no penalties other than a 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 star wanted level.

This kind of "ultraviolence" desensensitives those without abstract thinking (age 12 to 14 or younger) into possibly believing there are no penalties for the crimes they commit in real life because they can get away with it in a GTA game.

Now, I know there won't be many 12 to 14 year olds thinking they can get away with murder, robbery, and rape, but in order to protect the minority who may due to bad parents or weak sperm making them stupid, you need stricter legal standards that are enforced to make sure GameStop and other retailers are not selling to them.

Well what if the parent is present? Then the parent needs to be fully informed up to the extent of the employee popping the game in, playing it in front of the parent at the counter, and showing the parent the level of violence in the game is if they decide to purchase this game for their minor child.

Funny, 8 years back I was in Hollywood Video renting a PS2 game. An 8 year old picks out GTA: Vice City and his fucked up, completely negligent parent allows his 8 year old to rent it.

I was thinking what the fuck? When I was 8, I was playing Super Mario Bros 3 and did not play my first mature game until Doom when I was around age 12.

If we have parents like this, then companies need to be held to the table. Fines and whatnot equivalent to liquor and convenient stores selling alcohol and tobacco to minors is needed because there are parents out there who will let little Jimmy rent any game because they just don't care.

Umm... that makes perfect sense.  We don't sell violent movies to kids and we shouldn't sell violent games to kids.  If parents are okay with their kids having these products, that's fine, but we've had systems in place for a very long time to protect parents that think they're protecting their kids and there's no reason why that shouldn;t be the majority view.  If I think my kid is ready to handle GTA then I'll let my kid play GTA - If I think they are not, I don't want anyone selling GTA to my kid.  It makes perfect sense.

I am against this law.

I think that grade schoolers should be able to watch pornography as well.