I'm all for putting restrictions on mature video game content that prevents children from playing them. Why is it the only thing governments want to do is TAX, TAX, TAX? I thought Republican's were against government run health care programs anyways? Why treat mental health conditions post exposure, when you can prevent the exposure and hence the need for mental health treatment?

Violent game control is very easy. You require game manufacturers to provide an unlock sequence requiring an adult. During the unlock sequence you explicitly describe the violence/inappropriate material on said game content. Then if you really want to put some bite into it you add something like. In the event your child is involved in a violent crime, your gaming system/computer will be confiscated and used as evidence in criminal/civil action against parents who allowed their children to access such materials.

Parents are still morons. There were 6 years olds in the Colorado theather during the midnight Batman movie theather shooting and 1-2 of them were killed.

@Takeno456

Sandy Hook is a gun problem, and reports indicate Sandy Hook was exacerbated by a video game problem. When you have 30-50 rounds in a clip, innocent bystanders don't really have a chance. When you have a crazy person who is desensitized by violent video games you don't have natural reactions impeding his rampage. Most police personnel aren't as heavily armed as Adam Lanza. If he had say 7 rounds in a clip the causalities would've been far lower. If his guns had grip locks he couldn't have stolen his mothers weapons and used them. Guns are far easier to control than bad parenting.

@Sergeant_ 22 Kindergarteners and 1 Teacher, all are currently alive though some are in critical condition. If he had a gun they would all be dead and probably more. Your point?

Crazy people can't kill 26 people without an assualt weapon. I've never heard one story of a crazy person do in 26 people in 10 minutes with a baseball bat, knife, sword, blowdart, karate moves, etc. Killing a person is a difficult thing...when you already become desensitized to killing people through violent video games your ability to continue on a rampage as the one in Sandy Hook becames far more probable. These are not over-reactions, rather they are necessary and appropriate reactions.

You use flawed data. When you can acquire a gun 5 miles down the road from the city that banned said gun then you have not limited accessibility of the weapons from the criminals. Great Britian outlaws gun ownership. In a country of 60 million people they had 12 murders last year. Compare that to the US, where deaths by firearms are about to surpass deaths by lung cancer.

The question is, is it acceptable for first grade children to be executed in their classrooms? Is your say freedom to own a gun really worth having shoot-outs in school hallways? Does being able to play Call-of-Duty at the age of say 11, 12, 13 really something that's so worthwhile that you'd give up your 6 year child for? It doesn't matter that the person who did it was start freaking crazy...our society, American society gladly gives crazy all the tools they need to carry out hieneous crimes and protects the crazy person's right's moreso than the sane person's rights.

When you hunt most, if not all states limit the amount of ammunition to between 3-7 shells in your gun. When you buy automatic or semi-automatic guns, designed expressly for killing humans, the NRA doesn't want the gun owner to be limited in the number of rounds that gun can carry. They argue...well the average citizen needs to protect himself from the government. When exactly has the average citizen needed to protect himself from the goverment? Besides, the government has cruise, laser guided and nuclear missles...no assualt rifle is protecting you from the government if the government wants your flesh eradicated.

You may enjoy violent video games...so you cry about how your rights are infringed upon. Boo frigging who. So they put a parental lock on the game that requires you to enter a key code or show proof of ID before purchasing something. Its far better than having a minor viewing content they shouldn't be watching yet. Seriously, grow up, quit playing childish games like all the other policital leaders we elect and do the common sense things that protect ourselves from ourselves.

@Khasym Video games are used to teach pilots to fly planes and doctors to perform medical procedures. I did not discuss the details of the military studies as to keep my diatribe short.. Video games were not present back in WWII, but the other methods were developed along the way to simulate realizism in combat. From cut-outs, to dummies, to FPS...FPS provided the greatest level of desensitiation to the soldier being trained to kill humans.

@snipper_a1 Really...it can's happen if you don't have guns. Great Britian a nation of some 60M people had all of 12 murders the last year and they have no guns. Last I checked they enjoy pretty the same, if not more freedoms than most people of the USA.

@Khasym My second sentence is unclear in my response, it should say. I am not saying violent video games make a person more prone to violence or violent acts.