Shuppert: Violent video game ban long overdue

As long as it is not a ban on the rights of adults to choose what games they would like to buy, I see no issues with such a new law.

I received an e-mail early last week that is worth sharing. It touches on a subject that I’ve written on before, the correlation between violent video games and acted-out aggressive behavior. The statistics themselves tell the true story, but for those who are not convinced, let me offer that one has to admit that playing violent video games involves some level of interaction with the story line, plot and overall demeanor of the video characters. Ultimately, it is this involvement that causes a percentage of players to take the behavior away from the television and into society.

The Indianapolis Star reported this week that State Senator Vi Simpson (D-Ellettsville)— who is one of the brighter of the bunch—is filing legislation banning the sale and rental of certain video games to minors in Indiana in an effort to protect Hoosier kids from violent and sexually explicit video and computer games. [Read the rest]