Washington State Stupidity.

[theweaselking]

House 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.

Comments

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Ummmmm... I think that the alleged concern is that people will be hitting police officers, not becoming them and hitting things.

Oh. Or you could be making a comment about the speaker. In which case, never mind.

Considering all the crackpots in the US, a law like this just screams "frivolous lawsuit".

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Comment about the speaker, who is with the Washington Police and Sheriff's Association.