March 9, 2008 -
A Canadian legislator has weighed in with support for a teachers' group which is seeking to regulate Rockstar's controversial Bully: Scholarship Edition.John Nuraney (left), a member of British Columbia's Legislative Assembly, told Burnaby Now that he "totally agrees" with the British Columbia Teachers Federation's call to boycott Bully:
The dangers are known to all. I think it's a question of jurisdiction. The only thing it seems right now is to bring more awareness.
Nuraney recently spoke about video games in the Assembly, saying:
It may be of interest to this house to know that one of the top video games for boys in grades 3 to 6 is Grand Theft Auto. While it is admirable that our children of today adapt very quickly to this technology, it is also alarming that without proper guidance and supervision, they can fall victims to the unscrupulous predators.
The basis for Nuraney's comments about GTA is not known. GamePolitics has a request in for more information and we'll update if a response is forthcoming.
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Then give your kids "proper guidance and supervision". I mean isn't that kind of, you know, a part of being a parent? And what unscrupulous predators? What's this guy talking about?
"While it is admirable that our children of today adapt very quickly to this technology, it is also alarming that without proper guidance and supervision, they can fall victims to the unscrupulous predators," Nuraney said.
Either this quote is out of context, or he doesn't know what the games are about. There are no unscrupulous predators in Bully or any GTA, because they are simply games. So who is he talking about?
Which is why we need a BEAR TAX!
Almost all of us have been thru school at some point in our lives in some shape or form, considering how innocent bully is in comparision to real life is this histeria really needed?
These people who say these kinds of garbage are all, politicians or politically motivated people, older generation who have no real understanding of Videogames, seem to think that GTA is being played by Elementary School Students without even asking kids at that age if they have PLAYED the game...
Some elementry school students MAY have heard about GTA, but still that DOES NOT say if they have played it OR if it is their fav game.
Who knows, maybe the most popular games that Elementry school kids play are Wii Sports or Mario & Sonic at the Olympic games, that has just hit over 5,000 sales world wide now.
And looking at the Japanese sales, 1,000 copies of Super Smash Bros Brawl were sold within the first two weeks.
How about that????
Also these older political motivated people who just bash this sort of garbage, I believe, just really hate Videogames and they only think about the negative parts of Videogaming, never to positive parts...
Has anyone asked them do they know how MARIO is????
Why won't he try and legislate that?
there has been research that shows that the number one game played by 5-6 graders by both boys and girls is GTA. I even think GP posted that research... i'll see if i can find the article
and it was 12-14 year olds. but you can pretty much bet that if they have siblings that they are most likely watching or playing as well.
here you go, i was wring it was 12-14 year olds. but i can bet that if they have younger brothers or sisters they they are playing as well.
Sarcasm aside, this is starting to make me sick.
2. If "one of the top video games for boys in grades 3 to 6 is Grand Theft Auto," then who BOUGHT the games for them? Yeah. Just as I thought. Parents.
Isnt that what, you know, the parents are supposed to be doing?
GoodGodDam.
OK, lets get this straight. Either violent video games harm the development of children, and parents buying these games need to be educated and/or legislated against, and the games themselves regulated, or these video games are not dangerous and it's purely a personal choice of what the parent lets their kid play with or without supervision and guidance.
Claiming that video games aren't bad for children and shouldn't be regulated, yet claiming parents are at fault for buying them and letting their kids play them, is contradictory.
No it isn't.
If a parent gets offended at the content of a game they got their child, they themselves are at fault for not doing about ten minutes worth of research before deciding.
I stopped right there.
Legislation won't help at all. The parents are the ones who are buying the games for their children, most of the time, no amount of legislation will stop this. It is the parents' choice to let their kids play certain games, thus the politicians should stop trying to regulate this. How do you want to regulate games, forbid parents to buy certain games when they have children? These politicians need to stop complaining about violent games when the children aren't the ones buying it. The parents have all the tools necessary to make sure their children aren't playing these games, when they so choose.
don't insult at many for the fault of a few.
Sorry. Fuck John Nuraney and the Canadian Teacher's Federation.
Look it up and read what the judge says. Brilliant.
thank you very much. as a canadian i would like to say we do not all share the same unintelligent sentiment
No, but ifi t was my kid I should be the one having a say in that, not the government and not even a teacher
Parent's choice; no one else's.
How can a game be unscrupulous, or any other kind of human emotion? This personification of video games is just another one of their scare tactics to direct at the sheeple.
This is how I interpreted the statement, anyways. Not referring to virtual predators inside games, but rather calling the games themselves unscrupulous predators.
Just because your child/ren say "I want," does not mean they should recieve.
Stop breeding. Thanks.