We need your help Pogotribe! For gamers everywhere

[mashuga31]

Recently, a law has been taken to court to try and pass. The law says that any violent video game, or other game that depicts the harming of a human being, be made illegal to be sold to minors with up to a $1000 fine per sale. The first state to try and pull this happens to be california, pfft what other? But many other states will fall in line soon after. This doesn't affect me personally as I live in Nevada and they could care less, but it affects my fellow gamers who may happen to live in the carolinas or texas or any other whacked out state who thinks they can pass this law.

Why are games so hated on unlike any other media?

Heck a few weeks ago I went to see the Expendables. A 16 year old kid just walked in, bought a ticket, and they didn't even care that it was rated R. Neither did I, that movie rocked and it had explosions. The rate of violent crimes has almost shrunk as fast as the rate of growth in the video game industry. There is something we can do to stop this sheer communism.

We can go to videogamevoters.org and vote against this ridiculous law. I GREW UP on throwing people out of thirty story windows and watching them go splat, but in real life I go OUT OF MY WAY to make people's days better. These people do NOT understand the positive affect of violent video games. In discourse, why shoot somebody in real life, with all of those consequences, when you can just go home and shoot some virtual schlub? Percentages indicate that most serial killers don't even own a video game console! And kids who do commit crimes have parents who restrict those kind of games from them. Please help us in this endeavor.

Mashuga Out-

[vichilux]

I agree with you. *votes* Also, they think video games are the problem and waste their time going against that when there are even worse problems going on in the world. I hate when that happens, don't you? ._.

[qooqǝɯɐƃ]

You can still get your parents to buy the game.. This changes nothing (for me, at least). It's not like they're banning violent video games altogether.

[austkyzor]

As a resident of Canada (where the Prime Minister is a broken robot, and the government doesn't give a SHIRT about you), this doesn't really affect me - but I do agree that the proposed law is really stupid - Video games are a scapegoat - either that, or the American government wants to be more like Australia

[Camoon]

Wtf we already have this in the UK. It doesn't effect anything. Kids just ask their parents or hang around outside the shop to get a random adult to buy it.