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Originally Posted by StupidKraut
Shes shaping up to be Jack Thomson but effective at what shes trying to do. I'm all for restricting the sale of violent games to minors but if your gonna blame anything for their impact, blame parents and retailers who aren't enforcing the ratings system. I'm not sure how your games shops work in the states but in Alberta when you go to buy an M rated game they ask for ID in allot of stores or make sure the parent with the kid is aware of the games content.
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Which is really why it's such a problem here, as most of the time the retailer won't give a damn about selling a M rated game to a minor or, if he tells the kid he needs to see ID, the kid will tell his parent who will complain to the retailer for not giving their kid a M rated game. Parents pay so little attention to what their kids are actually doing or playing now, that I have a hard time believing that parents don't deserve some of the blame for allowing their kids to become desensitized to violence, as well as the retailers who fail to actually inform parents as to why their kids have been restricted from buying the game they intended to buy before the parent's came in and demanded the game be given to the kid.
I agree with you that I'm all for the sale of mature games being restricted. I have a problem, however, when we get to the point in proclaiming videogames are the main cause of violent behavior in our youth. Not that that's what you're saying; I'm just putting that statement out there.