[IcyMourdor]

Exactly. The Daily News has some shady work going on here. I doubt that this is just some noble cause to help parents. This is all just publisity for their paper. I believe that if neither of the two teenagers played any sort of video games, we wouldn't be having this discussion here. This topic has been around since I started reading (I think I was like 2-3 years old when that happened). "Violence in games cause problems and influence children." Yes, and so does sports, television, newspapers, parents, friends, pets, or any other combination of elements and matter.

Okay, now onto the banning of the games. Should video games be banned? Who are we to decide this answer?

Video games are made by companies. Companies sell these cartridges and disks as merchandise. I'm not sure how things are run in the UK, but here in the US, our economy works by people buying things. Spending money to keep the flow of money circulating to everyone. You cannot just tell someone they can no longer sell a product to a consumer because someone doesn't think its right and/or safe. In that case, I can sue and stop production of all companies and retailers that sell onions due to the fact that I get sick if I eat a lot of them.

Of course, they will have a defense to this, which will prove my point.

Their defense: I have knowledge of my own allergies. I also have knowledge to the risk that entails with them. I took the risk and it is my fault for eating a large quantity of them.

See my point yet? You can't just go and do something. The consumer knows of the risk that goes into each product. It isn't the gaming companies fault.

Okay, what if the consumer has no knowledge of this. Well, tough luck consumer, you still can't do it. The infomation about these games are made public knowledge through the rating systems that the ESBA places on every video game that is put on market. Since that information is available, you cannot claim that you didn't know. Its your fault as a consumer that you didn't look up this information.

Censorship and banning of games will continue to be a huge topic in the gaming world as long as one liberal parent thinks this way. Only two things are going to end it. One is if all the gaming companies stop makings games. Fat chance, this is a billion dollar industry. The second way is if people allow things to happen the way they are. Not going to happen since there is going to be at least one poor soul out there that wishes to ruin the lives of others to bring them down to their level.

Any first year law student can realize this, imagine what lawyers there are going to be on the side of the gaming industry. Preventing the selling of a product such as this is not going to happen. They have the rating system in place set by age brackets. They already have censored it enough.

If there does happen to be a ban on such video games, remember to all you UK gamers out there. Games are always available here in the US, so just move here.