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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Striker" data-source="post: 280238" data-attributes="member: 6694">Agreed.  These are the same people that got the State of California in 2005 to enact a law banning the sale of "violent video games" to minors.  Fortunately the U.S. Supreme Court struck it down on First Amendment grounds in 2011.  Why?  One, what's a "violent" video game?  What may be offensive to some may be nothing to a horror movie fan.  Two, why video games?  Kids have been buying violent books, music, et al. for decades.  Anyone remember the violent ending of Hansel and Gretel?  Classics like Dante's Inferno and Lord of the Flies are pretty gruesome.  How many times did Wile E. Coyote blow himself up while chasing the Roadrunner?   7-2 decision, written by Antonin Scalia.  Breyer dissented, because if we could ban the sale of Playboy, Penthouse, et al. to minors, he didn't see much difference for violence.  Clarence Thomas also dissented, because when the First Amendment was written in the late 18th Century it was unlawful to sell or give *anything* to minors without a parent's consent. (Originalism to the extreme, I suppose.)</blockquote>

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