Violent Video Games Accessible To Kids
Youths in Eureka and Wildwood have a First Amendment right to buy violent video games, no matter how gory or graphic, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week. A couple of Moms Council parents and a local game shop owner weigh in.
U.S. Supreme Court judges ruled Monday that retailers and rental places cannot deny children the right to buy violent video games. With a gaming shop located in Eureka, how does this new ruling affect local consumers? In a decision that reversed a 2005 California law, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said access to violent video games is protected under the First Amendment, regardless of the consumer's age. "No doubt a state possesses legitimate power to protect children from harm," Scalia said in the case's majority opinion. "But that does not include a free-floating power to restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed." Owner of Eureka-based B&B Game Shop, Jay Hathaway, said no one typically asks him about game ratings. "Most…
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Diane Engle
9:26 am on Wednesday, June 29, 2011
'Readers should disregard the misleading headline, skip the biased opening text' - considering the Supreme Court's ruling, the heading is NOT misleading and the beginning of this article addresses the history of the Supreme Court case so it is factual, not 'biased' more ›