Judge strikes down violent-game law

By banning stores from selling violent games to kids, proposed law would have hurt free-speech rights, court says.

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[unknown unknown]

This law didn't protect children

all it did was forbid the sale of games that showed violence against law enforcement to minors. If you're going to protect children from violence you have to protect them from more than just one fairly narrow catagory of violence. I think the education program for parents is a good thing.

[unknown unknown]

This law didn't protect children

all it did was forbid the sale of games that showed violence against law enforcement to minors. If you're going to protect children from violence you have to protect them from more than just one fairly narrow catagory of violence. I think the education program for parents is a good thing.

[nicmart]

How was it to be enforced? Government violence!

Politicians do quite well stirring up the mob with appeals to
protect them from various real and imagined dangers. But the
greatest threat to Americans isn't from the theoretical violence
of media, it is from the real violence of the State. We don't need
psychologists to tell us this, we have history and the profound
testimony of the American founders. From the founding to the
present day most Americans have willingly participated in the
dismemberment of their "unalienable" rights and constitutional
protections. What we have left are state and federal governments
that enforce a blizzard of laws with naked violence. We shouldn't
shrink from pointing out that the many politicians like Rep. Mary
Lou Dickerson depend on that real violence to impose their
wishes. The modern "therapeutic state" depends on the merging
of "mental health" values with state violence.

[nicmart]

How was it to be enforced? Government violence!

Politicians do quite well stirring up the mob with appeals to
protect them from various real and imagined dangers. But the
greatest threat to Americans isn't from the theoretical violence
of media, it is from the real violence of the State. We don't need
psychologists to tell us this, we have history and the profound
testimony of the American founders. From the founding to the
present day most Americans have willingly participated in the
dismemberment of their "unalienable" rights and constitutional
protections. What we have left are state and federal governments
that enforce a blizzard of laws with naked violence. We shouldn't
shrink from pointing out that the many politicians like Rep. Mary
Lou Dickerson depend on that real violence to impose their
wishes. The modern "therapeutic state" depends on the merging
of "mental health" values with state violence.

[Stan Kee]

Cop Safety??

I'm sorry but cops seem to be the ones who take their power to far against the citizens. When cops take responsiblity for the innocent people they kill and the abuse of force against people i'll have sympathy for them. When a person commits violence against an officer they usually receive justice, when a "power trip" cop commits violence against a citizen nothing usually happens. It happen time and again. Want a glimpse of cops on a power trip, watch "NYPD 24/7" on ABC. This is just a way to get sympathy votes. Besides why do kids need to get violence from a video game when it is exibited everyday in America.

[Stan Kee]

Cop Safety??

I'm sorry but cops seem to be the ones who take their power to far against the citizens. When cops take responsiblity for the innocent people they kill and the abuse of force against people i'll have sympathy for them. When a person commits violence against an officer they usually receive justice, when a "power trip" cop commits violence against a citizen nothing usually happens. It happen time and again. Want a glimpse of cops on a power trip, watch "NYPD 24/7" on ABC. This is just a way to get sympathy votes. Besides why do kids need to get violence from a video game when it is exibited everyday in America.