Ban On Louisiana Video Game Law Now Permanent

Carl Carlson writes "A Louisiana judge has issued a permanent injunction against a Louisiana law banning the sale of violent video games to minors. The law was crafted by video game dilettante Jack Thompson and took a slightly different approach to the issue of regulating video game sales. Rep. Roy Burrell (R) and Jack Thompson had research that purported to show a causative link between playing violent video games and real-world violence entered into the legislative record in an attempt to buttress the legislation's shaky credentials. In addition, the law adapted the Miller obscenity test to the realm of violent video games."

Woot!

[Kingrames]

We win!

Put down the hay-lo and pick up a real gun, son

[Brill]

Too young to buy a game, but old enough to join the army?

A Lawyer's Title

[Dr. Eggman]

Wow, that's a confusing title, a ban on a law made permanent. At first I read it as the law banning [certain] video games was now perminent. Then, after I cleaned up after the spit-take, I read it as a permanent video game law [as in constitutional amendment] being banned. Took three tries to read it as a video game law being banned permanently.

Did they pull that thing out of a software licence or am I just sleep deprived?

Re:Woot!

[Anonymous Coward]

Joke about it all you like, but the causal link between violent videogames and violent crime is well proven [adequacy.org].

Let's go after the really damaging stuff!

[edwardpickman]

Vegitales and Barney do far more damage than violent video games. I've never been disturbed by any video game ever but Barney freaks they hell out of me. Could you imagine the damage Vegitales could do if the viewer happened to have just dropped acid? We just need to ban the right things. Overly religious vegitables and purple blob dinosaurs would be at the top of my list. Drunks used to see pink elephants. What do you have to take to see purple dinosaurs? These are dangerous people producing dangerous and disturbing products. They must be stopped!

Re:Maybe I'm missing something...

[mordors9]

Man was I glad you added that last paragraph. I was on my way to the phone to make a child abuse complaint to child protective services in your area.....

Re:Maybe I'm missing something...

[Known Nutter]

...but isn't there already a system that makes it so that minors can't play some games? I'm not sure how it's in the US but the eruopean PEGI system works just fine here.

yes, except here we call it parenting [wikipedia.org]. unfortunately, that system doesn't seem to work too well. or at least, its awfully inconvenient.

Is it just me..

[popeye44]

Or does anyone else here want to stalk Jack Thompson and everytime you see him whip out some violent video game and play it until he leaves? better yet.. bring along my 5 year old and call of duty 2 hehe.

Re:Woot!

[SQLz]

and Electronic Arts (nuff sed).

What does sed has to do with EA?

Re:So...

[eyeball]

Back when Australia had a war-draft, and the drinking age was 21, a number of people complained. The complaint was that young men could be asked by their country to go to a different country, and be shot at, yet when they got home, they couldn't go and have a beer with their mates. The proposition was to raise the draft age to 21, or lower the drinking age to 18.

Young men in Australia have been drinking in pubs from age 18 for a good long while now...

So Fosters won the war I take it?

Re:Nobody every "wins".

[Kingrames]

You mean, like at the end of Return of the Jedi, when the rebels and ewoks were all celebrating and dancing and whatnot while the wreckage of the Death Star II was burning up in the atmosphere, destroying the entire supply of breathable air? ...crap.

Re:Woot!

[Anonymous Coward]

well u see sed can be used
to substitute

kind of like how EA
changes good game
companys into shitty ones

Re:Maybe I'm missing something...

[Anonymous Coward]

hey, wait a second... that sounds like it would require effort

Re:Scapegoats?

[scoot80]

For an instant I thought you said "spacegoat".. People want to find a damn spacegoat??? Geez, is that why we are sending all those rockets into space.. its all about the space goats!!!..

Re:Scapegoats?

[Courageous]

.. you can get more violence in some religious texts than on TV, ...
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I've never heard of a TV show that actually makes rape sound like a good thing. And yes, the bible does do that.

C//

Re:So...

[micpp]

Fosters: Australian for the kangaroo piss we export to Yanks.

Re:Maybe I'm missing something...

[Fred_A]

The 12 year olds quickly discover that they just need to beg their parents long enough to get GTA.

My 12 year old will get GTA only when he proves he can handle it by bringing me a stolen car with the corpse of a prostitute in the boot.