In an ironic fit of bullshit, a San Francisco Assemblyman is claiming that he is receiving death threats because of his bill to restrict the sale of violent video games. Leland Yee claims he received a total of three threats in the last week. The first two came just before a conference to propose tougher restrictions on violent video games:

We received two threats already — basically that they're going to shoot us, just as they shoot individuals in video games.

Then on Thursday Yee says a press aide received a threatening text-message on his cell phone. The message read in part Kill 'em all. Kill 'em all. 20 pts. followed by a racial epithet. Yee s idiotic staff say, and this television station was more than happy to reprint, that the 20 point reference may be a reference to some of the more vile games that give points for killing people of color.

WTF, STFU. SMF. I d go on in profane acronyms but I have a feeling I d be traipsing into such long strings of profanity that you would have no clue what I was talking about.

Needless to say, Yee was so worried about these threats that he didn t call police, instead notifying the Assembly s Sergeant of Arms.

The story wraps up with this priceless quote from Yee:

What happens is that individuals play these games at night, and they act out the behavior during the day. They don't think twice that this is something wrong and rather odd. And you don't do that.

The California Highway Patrol have since opened an investigation. Man, talk about good timing for a politician trying to get a little face time with a tired bill.

Violence threatened [CBS 5]

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