Listen as Utah House Considers Video Game Resolution

Listen as Utah House Considers Video Game Resolution

February 21, 2007
Yesterday, the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee of the Utah House of Representatives considered HJR15.

The non-binding resolution, introduced by Rep. Scott Wyatt (R), was unanimously passed by the committee.  Download an audio file of the four-minute hearing here.

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yo mama so fat that when she asked for a water bed thay put a cover over the ocean
What tenuous links. Are we actually supposed to believe that a video game taught him this? He "HUNTED PEOPLE". Yes. This is what you have to do when you want to kill someone but they are not near you. You hunt for them. Another correlation was that he MOVED WITHIN EFFECTIVE RANGE of his shotgun. Huge whoop. Any half-wit knows shotguns only shoot so far. Also, he was shouting explitives, and this must be because of the game, the only place where people do such a thing.
Wow... Gail was awesome. Particularly with the example of the GROWN MAN who was addicted to violent video games which led him to become addicted to porn. Was I the only one who missed that little logic train?
Whats even more funny is that most games teach you that a shotgun is useless past 10 yards.
Funny that kids need video games to teach them that a point blank shot with a shotgun does more damage than from 30 yards. GAT:VC tought him that. And since when "die mother Expletive" exclusive to GTA? I heard that in school before I heard it in a game.
Man, not only does she call it Grand Auto Theft... the name is based on A FREAKING CRIMINAL ACT!!! This isn't hard here...

I also like the "And he's going to soon be her ex-husband because he's addicted to pornography, and these video games were a gateway for him."

Gail.... shut up....
XD Grand Auto Theft
Utah wants a dog in the fight, eh? Ironically, that analogy is more violent than many of the games they want to regulate.
They took the spirit of HB50 (games are bad and, ergo, must be controlled) and removed its physical capacities. It's like an HB50 ghost.

And, like any ghost, it's probably going to do a fair bit of haunting before it's laid to rest (to extend my metaphor to it's logical limit).

The passing of HJR15 says, quite literally, "we'd control these evil machines if we could, but the Constitution's the only thing keeping us from doing it." While Utah may not be physically capable of doing anything to assist the other states in their fight against video games, a second attempt at similar legislation that the AG et al. deem to be reasonably constitutional will probably hit the assembly running. A strong indication of the mindset of our civic leaders nation-wide, I fear.
Grand Auto Theft.....
Wow... why would they even want to legislate something they can't even name correctly? Oh, wait, I forgot, doing something "for the children" is an automatic vote-getter.

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Posted 11/08/09 at 01:07am
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Posted 11/07/09 at 11:33pm
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Posted 11/07/09 at 10:58am
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:56am
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:51am
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Posted 11/07/09 at 10:48am
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:11am
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
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