Calif. Petitions Supreme Court On Violent Video Game Bill 204
eldavojohn writes "You know the drill, violent video game bill struck down because: "We hold that the Act, as presumptively invalid content-based restriction on speech, is subject to strict scrutiny and not the 'variable obscenity' standard from Ginsberg v. New York. Applying strict scrutiny, we hold that the Act violates rights protected by the First Amendment." Well, that didn't satisfy a PhD child psychologist turned Democratic California State Senator named Leland Yee who states in his press release that "California's violent video game law properly seeks to protect children from the harmful effects of excessively violent, interactive video games. I am hopeful that the Supreme Court — which has never heard a case dealing with violent video games — will accept our appeal and assist parents in keeping these harmful video games out of the hands of children. I believe the high court will uphold this law as Constitutional. In fact in Roper v. Simmons, the court agreed we need to treat children differently in the eyes of the law due to brain development." His appeal (in PDF) is here and you can find some industry reactions to the Supreme Court hearing at GamePolitics. Unfortunately Yee seems to be a bit more competent than old Jack Thompson, who is pushing a bill in Louisiana today."
Re:I hate that I have to say this cliche comment (Score:2, Informative)
Wikipedia usually doesn't steer us wrong
US has the most Guns per Resident" [wikipedia.org]
Re:I hate that I have to say this cliche comment (Score:2, Informative)
In more news...
US Sitting at 8th Place with murders by firearms [nationmaster.com] right between Costa Rica and Uruguay.
Re:I hate that I have to say this cliche comment (Score:1, Informative)
Ok asshole, thanks for showing once again that statistics are bullshit & quoting wiki is dumb.
First of all, your list takes figures from different years for every country on there, so right off the bat it is worth jack shit.
Second, 2/3's of the firearm related deaths in the US, according to your list, are suicides not homicides.
Third, it makes no distinction as to if those firearm deaths were caused by citizens or law enforcement.
Fourth, the list is NOT one of 1st world nations, Russia for example isn't even listed. It's based on GDI per capita which is also horseshit.
and an idea of a lack of responsibility to others. This is what caused the financial meltdown,
No, that was mostly caused by people borrowing more money than they can afford, and banks using fake numbers for property/asset values. And it wasn't just in the US it was the whole 1st world that was involved in the scam.
this is what causes our murder rate to be so high,
No, our murder rate is so high because our foolish anti-drug policies have turned the inner cities into war zones between drug dealers.
and this is why we're the only first world nation to not have social healthcare
No, we don't have social healthcare because I don't want to foot the bill to replace your lungs & liver because you spent too much time smoking crack and drinking hairspray.
If anything, the majority of problems in our country stem from the sense of entitlement that people like you spout off about. Nobody owes you anything, so get off your high horse. It's nobody else' job to wipe your ass so quit expecting others to do so for you.
This worked so well for Illinois... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:I remember this guy (Score:5, Informative)
If you didn't find the links, you weren't trying very hard.