[Kong]

@DB, Good point that the ratings are not official. They are made by non-goverment agencies with their own agendas. What kind of games does this affect? Mortal Kombat? COD? Surgeon Games? Religious games?
IMO any game that glorifies war is way worse than any game where you can walk around decapitating zombies and having sex with hookers. Although I doubt the law sees it that way.

I think COD should be off limits but Mortal Kombat is OK. I bet it is the opposite.

Left Behind games - your mission, kill and convert atheists, jews and musslims because they are non-christians. Should kids be allowed to play this? It is rated T so I guess so.

I imagine there are some games now where your job is to kill Arabs. I bet they are rated T too.

I think teaching kids to kill people for their beliefs or birthplace is more inceidious and does more harm than playing a game where they steal cars. The later is more obviously fantasy and role playing. This is not how the people making the ratings see it.

I think Surgeon games are as bad as GTA. If a kid doesn't have enough common sense to not car jack in real life then how does he have enough common sense to not cut open his little sister up.

The penalties for selling minors nicotine or alcohol are very high. I think that is a very good law. But I don't think violence and sex are exactly the same as addictive drugs or even close.

They should also make it illegal to advertise this stuff to minors. Of course lots of kids want to get drunk, smoke, have sex, be violent and cuss. That is what we tell them they should want to do and what we tell them adults do and what we tell them they are forbidden to do. And we are surprised that we can't figure out how to keep them from doing it.

What is stopping the kid from driving across the border and buying it from the next state over. It can't take that long to drive across Rhode Island.

The employee should be completely off the hook if the kid has a fake ID.

When I say it is the parents responsibility I mean it is their responsibility to make sure the kid is mature enough to understand the difference in make believe and killing someone in real life. Not their responsibility to police the games they play.

This law will make parents feel like they don't have to do that because someone else is taking care of it for them. Their kids are someone else's problem and they can spend more time being a bad influence for their kids.