Re:I'm sure i'll be modded down but.. (Score 1)

I play Grand Theft Auto III, and Vice City almost religiously. There are swarms of cops that are in the games. So since violence against cops is so sadistic what do I do? I play the missions alot of times where the violence is against who? Gangsters, drug runnners/dealers, and other scum. Both games have a feature that allows you to engage law breakers while pretending to be a cop. A vigilante mode. What happens as you progress in these missions, is the cops start coming after you. The cops chase you for fighting crime? I don't remember them fighting superman. Do you... Anyway the point I was going to make is that I was going to make is that a lot of my friends, who are a few years younger than me couldn't buy that game, some where their parents encourage money being spent on other things. Some where their parents do use the ratings systems on the game, and some that have said which games they can or can't buy. My parents wouldn't buy me Resident evil last year when I asked them to get it for me for chirstmas. It had some nasty looking zombies on the cover. I'm 19, yet they didn't buy it. Thats their choice. In the end its the parent that decides whats good for the child. I'm 19, they didn't think that the game was appropriate, so they bought metroid where I can annihilate aliens that don't look human. Violence in any aspect of entertainment is not the problem, but once you 'ban' it then it becomes cult to those that are banned from. Examples... porn to teenage boys (and some girls) becomes cool because you can't go out and get it. rated R movies to people under 14. Get my point. The moment you create a law you create a desire to obtain those materials. Most people play video games for good times. Most parents understand the difference of fiction and reality. Maybe these senators and other folk should spend more time with their family before they start making decisions for thousands of families. When I become a parent I've already made the decision that things will be a case by case basis. no blanket rules like no violent video games. By the way, when the banned selling parental advisory cds to people under 17 or 18 or whatever it was, I went to the store that charged 25% more, but sold them to me. I'm going to go kill some cops in video game land now... and wait til the put senators in them, hopefully with GTA4 or whatever they will call it.