Tennessee Senator Proposes Total Violent Games Ban

[CptStern]

"There have been bills in the local, state and federal level that have proposed bans for the sale of games with violent content to minors, but a new bill proposed last week by Tennessee State Senator Tommy Kilby goes all the way, calling for the total ban of the sale and rental of video games with violent content to ANYONE, regardless of age."


http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=4604409&nav=0RYv

from the wording of the bill:

SECTION 1. The general assembly hereby finds that:
(1) Exposing persons to depictions of violence in video games, including sexual and heinous violence, makes those persons more likely to experience feelings of aggression, to experience a reduction of activity in the frontal lobes of the brain, and to exhibit violent antisocial or aggressive behavior;

(2) Even persons who do not commit acts of violence suffer psychological harm from prolonged exposure to violent video games; and

(3) The state has a compelling interest in preventing violent, aggressive, and
antisocial behavior, and in preventing psychological or neurological harm to persons who play violent video games.

http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB3981.pdf

 

[Mutley]

How will a ban work in one little puny state or whatever?

I guess he doesn't know you can buy them off the interweb.

 

[Solaris]

OMFG.

*Sends an Email to that Hitman website*

 

[Cormeh]

Ahahahaha.

So I could go to Tennessee and rent/purchase say... Gangs of New York and watch the ensuing bloodbath, but couldn't legally obtain a game like GTA?

DiCaprio makes me likely to experience feelings of aggression, experience a reduction of activity in the frontal lobes of the brain, or exhibit violent antisocial/aggressive behavior. But I suppose that doesn't count.

 

[CptStern]

Ahahahaha.

So I could go to Tennessee and rent/purchase say... Gangs of New York and watch the ensuing bloodbath, but couldn't legally obtain a game like GTA?

and so can your underage kids ..oh and dont forget to pick up an M82 while you stop for refreshments at the local piggly wiggly

DiCaprio makes me likely to experience feelings of aggression, experience a reduction of activity in the frontal lobes of the brain, or exhibit violent antisocial/aggressive behavior. But I suppose that doesn't count.

you too huh? urge to kill rising ...rising

 

[JNightshade]

There are two possibilities here:

1: It fails.

2: It passes, and merely increases the chances of the Blue States splitting off from the Red States.

It's a win-win situation! :thumbs:

 

[Steve]

I'm interested that "the council finds" this to be true. Are they composed of psychologists?

 

[Raziaar]

I propose you all pirate videogames off the internet, if you live in that state after it passes. All hail video game piracy!

You can then send a small light manilla envelope filled with beautiful green cash to the game developers.

 

[OvA]

Holy shit. That's one state over.

There's always Steam, the net, or driving to another state though

 

[Sulkdodds]

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[Evo]

to experience a reduction of activity in the frontal lobes of the brain

wtf, haven't heard any evidence on this before!

This is stupid, how are games so much worse than movies? Games relieve stress and ager for me. A film is more likely to make me go violent than a game D:

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

It won't pass. If it did, it fails in court due to 1st Amendment immediately and is thrown out.

 

[Icarusintel]

Kill It With Fire!

 

[smwScott]

It's just a publicity stunt. The senator is just playing to his base. There is absolutely zero possibility of a law like this passing in the forseeable future. I would be truly shocked if they even manage to make it illegal to sell to minors, and even more shocked if that law stood for more than a month.

 

[Codcommando]

It's just a publicity stunt. The senator is just playing to his base. There is absolutely zero possibility of a law like this passing in the forseeable future. I would be truly shocked if they even manage to make it illegal to sell to minors, and even more shocked if that law stood for more than a month.

Well lets cut off his cahones anyways! or were gonna be regretting it when we have to send a terminator back in time to kill him from the not so distant future with no violent videogames.

 

[ComradeBadger]

I will just say this:

Watching the Football Factory made me more violent than any game ever has... I infact headbutted one of my mates the night after I watched it..

 

[Dog--]

I'm glad I live in Canada, there isn't much (If any) hostility towards video games here.

America sucks for video game laws. Too much whiners and cry-babies.

 

[Steve]

It's just a publicity stunt. The senator is just playing to his base. There is absolutely zero possibility of a law like this passing in the forseeable future.

Exactly.

Why? The First Amendment.