First off, most of the people who post here are of the ages 17 and up. I think our oldest member is in his mid 40\'s. Find a "What\'s your age" thread and browse through it before claiming that we\'re all just a bunch of "young punks".
Second point. The Government makes for piss poor parents. It\'s not the developers fault these games are falling into the hands of children.. is the parents fault. Plain and simple. Those ratings are there for a reason.. if you choose to ignore them when buying a game for your kinds then that\'s YOUR fault. A parent must also instill in their kids the sence to tell the drifference between right and wrong. Videogames, music, movies, ect can be a powerful outlets for expressing inner rage and emotion without actually causing harm to someone. However, if you let the media raise your children for you.. then they will undoubtably be raised with the media\'s morals. As stated before, it\'s not the media\'s job to raise your children for you.. so why are people offended when the media puts out content that\'s not appropriate for their children??
Oh, and BTW: If people are so concerned about their kids buying M rated games without their concent, then perhaps they should take just a few minuites from their day and parouse their childrens videogame collections... and weed out anything they don\'t approve of... or at least TALK to their children about them, preferably WHILE they\'re playing these violent games. Maybe it\'s just the way I was raised, but privacy is something you earn through trust.. it\'s a privlage, not a right. There are far more things in this world which children deal with daily that are worse than what\'s in your average M rated videogame... expecially when you consider that they are REAL and not fantasy.
While his mommy is picketing for videogame censorship, little Timmy is probably flipping through his porno collection ~ the size of which his father would envy.
