Jack Thompson's Anti-Game Law

[DMKA]

Wait, is he trying to keep 17 year olds from buying M rated games, or does he not realize that they already have that rating?

I don't know about here in Cali (haven't went game shopping since I got back, and when I was younger I know the rating system wasn't something many if any stores really paid attention to), but in Oklahoma they won't sell minors M rated games anyway (yes, you have to be over eighteen and show an I.D. to purchase 17 and up games there :rolleyes2 ), so it's nothing new.

I personally think when your seventeen, hell sixteen, there's nothing you're going to play/see that's going to damage you anymore than you already are anyway, and it's not like you aren't already seeing worse things in the real world than any video game could show you by then. I personally think if a game says 17+, then it should be sold to you if you're just that, 17+...the problem is, there's alot of 17 year olds that don't have the means (like a drivers license) to prove their age, whereas most 18 year olds do (seeing as when you're 18 you can't really get by without it any longer), so I really don't see what harm raising it to 18+ is going to do. It'd shut alot (well a few anyway) of people up, and then the parents would HAVE to buy the games for their kids, so then when everyone wants to bitch and whine the parents can be the ones who get randown by the church mobs, aswell as parents not being able to say "Oh it's the game's fault and best buy's for selling it to my kid that my kid blew up his school!" because they'll have had to buy it for them.

So, dare I say it, but I actually think this would be more of a good thing.