Violent video games, the Supreme Court, and minors

Even worse:

Lead Bullet Ban?

 

Your link is jacked

 

Sounds like a tempest in a teapot. The courts have had this before and chosen to ignore it. They can't step into one medium without hitting another.

In the past the game companies simply argued that they would have to police other mediums for violent depictions first. The argument was plays, books, film, radio, TV should all be policed at the same time or first.

And that obviously is never going to happen. This happens over and over again. It's a headline grab by the Jack Thompson crowd yet again.

 

The thing to keep in mind is that most of these "OMG WE'RE DOOMED" crowd forget that EA, Activision et al are simply able to hire bus loads of the best attorneys there are.

The Thompson and Grossman crowd get their asses handed to them when common sense is added to the equation. Grossman was the guy that called FPS's murder simulators. His theory falls apart when you notice that the percentage of people that are squeamish around blood is exactly the same in gamers as it is in the general population.

If his theory had any credence, the percentage would drop to nearly zero.

Penn & Tellers BullSh*t had an episode last year about gaming that was great. Let's face it, if those guys could come up with plenty of BS about the anti-gaming crowd just to fill a half-hour of TV, a major corporation and a half-dozen Harvard lawyers whose very existence depends on winning will do fine.

The only question will be how many of their attorneys will know Justice Kagan personally.