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According to GamePolitics.com, you've signed a bill into law that calls for a study to determine the link between violence and video games, requires video game consoles to have mandatory parental locks by 2010 and all games sold at retail to clearly display the rating that it has been granted by the ESRB.
Or, as people who can actually read call it, "crap that has already happened." I mean, I know you're blind and all, but did you really feel the need to prove it by signing something that a quick Google search could have told you was freakin' useless, anyway?
Look, I know you and your government buddies feel the need to "protect the children." It's the freakin' mantra of the country, "think of the children." You know what I say? Protect the children from parents who feel they have no responsibility to ensure their children aren't playing games where you're running over hookers you just slept with to regain health-points so you don't have to pay 'em. Where's the bill requiring that?
Let's face it, you and your political stooges are only going to go after the games that are popular to target; the Grand Theft Autos of the world, maybe a Doom here and there. And I get it, there are people who use those games as an excuse to be idiotic in real life, so of course you gotta look like you're doing something, right?
But think for a second (something I'm not sure any politician stops to do anymore): where does it stop? A plumber claiming they stepped on a turtle because Super Mario does it? People trying to throw balls at buildings, causing vandalism, all because of Brick Breaker? Michael Vick getting off on appeal because he thought dog fighting was okay since you can sick animals on each other while playing Pokemon?
Let's face it, we're building a country that continually pushes the blame for its citizen's actions on someone else, and this law is only going to help with that. And I think you're all a bunch of tools for it.