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Watchblog GamePolitics reports that the Muskogee Phoenix is full of piss and vinegar about the shamefully-constructed anti-games law in Oklahoma:
Some things are definitely inappropriate for children and harmful to them, and society has a duty to protect young people. But if it's wrong for minors to view a game that "depicts lead characters who resort to violence freely" — as the new law states video games do — then minors shouldn't be watching Indiana Jones and a host other characters who freely and gratuitously indulge in violence.
Characters like the Kotaku Brians, who were taking turns sucker-punching a four-year-old when I dropped that DDR video by the "office" this morning.
In addition to decrying the actual wording of the law, the article points out that if even a small percentage of children playing these hideous games were actually acting on the demonic instructions issuing from their PCs, then juvenile violence rates would be rising, not falling.
Have any of the anti-games pundits ever actually addressed that data? I can't recall a single instance, but correct me if I'm wrong. I'm genuinely baffled by the apparent ignorance of the facts that these, to borrow the new Stewartism, Insane Jackasses display.
Editorial Roundup: Oklahoma Paper Slams New Video Game Law [GamePolitics]
