Washington State Stupidity.
Mar. 3rd, 2005 03:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingHouse Bill 2178 proposes to hold the makers and sellers of violent video games liable if someone under 17 years old commits a crime, due in any part, to playing the game.
Supporters of the bill, like Bill Hanson with the Washington Police and Sheriff's Association, say "kids" are getting the games, and they're becoming desensitized.
"If you sit up and watch this and play these games over and over again... it seems that this is alright to walk up and hit a police officer over the head with a bat," Hanson said.
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I posit that any man who can be convinced to attack people with a bat because of video games has no business being a police officer, any more than a man who claims that he *needs* God to tell him not to kill people or else he wouldn't consider it wrong has any business lecturing about morality.
Supporters of the bill, like Bill Hanson with the Washington Police and Sheriff's Association, say "kids" are getting the games, and they're becoming desensitized.
"If you sit up and watch this and play these games over and over again... it seems that this is alright to walk up and hit a police officer over the head with a bat," Hanson said.
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I posit that any man who can be convinced to attack people with a bat because of video games has no business being a police officer, any more than a man who claims that he *needs* God to tell him not to kill people or else he wouldn't consider it wrong has any business lecturing about morality.