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"Violence against law enforcement officers?"
How is that worse than games that depict, say, the slaughtering of an entire city?

Now games smuggling can be a serious insustry, though I just had this pic in my head of a darkened alley with a little nerd-guy and a tough looking smuggler.

"You got the merchandise?"
"All here"
"Leet"
Nods are exchanged.

Captain tycho wrote:"Violence against law enforcement officers?"
How is that worse than games that depict, say, the slaughtering of an entire city?

I think you'd be killing a couple police men there, but what happens to the RPGs where you have to kill town watchmen?

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the power of moldy cheese.

Stupid law that I doubt will ever be enforced. I mean that's just not going to happen and I doubt it'd even stand up to a legal challenge.

Gandalf wrote:Now games smuggling can be a serious insustry, though I just had this pic in my head of a darkened alley with a little nerd-guy and a tough looking smuggler.

"You got the merchandise?"
"All here"
"Leet"
Nods are exchanged.

Gotta love it...

Usually, a game that depicts violence against law enforcement officers would have a mature rating anyway. What does this law change? Not a goddamned thing. Will retailers give a damn about who buys the games? Nope. Will anybody get punishment for this? Uh-uh.

Just another example of neutered legislation that looks "good" on paper (to some small-minded people, anyway) but here in reality, has absolutely no effect.

The purpose of legislation such as this is not to actualy achief something, it is simply intended as a way of sucking up to the soccer moms in order to gain some votes in the next elections.