Agreed 100% with Ted.

There is no proof that "violent" video games or any video game cause harm. After all, video games are protected by the First Amendment, and if you’re going to infringe on a Constitutional right like freedom of speech based on the claim that the speech in question is “dangerous”, then you better damn well show absolute proof of that. It’s NEVER been done.

If there is a danger so clear and so threatening to the American people that causes these self-righteous politicians to step on the First Amendment, wouldn’t any rational thinking person have to believe that the danger would have to be so obvious and clear that there would be no argument against it? Especially since you’re directly contradicting a Constitutional amendment.

We, the American people, have not been given any valid reason to believe that this abridging of our freedom of speech is necessary. There just simply isn’t any evidence at all of any danger from “violent” video games. This “protection” from “violent” video games isn’t needed or wanted for that matter, but please feel free to use everyone’s tax dollars for protection from things like a 10-foot storm surge from a Category 3 or greater hurricane or the fuselage of a 747 airplane entering our workplaces or our homes. 

-Back in Black from a forced hiatus by Hurricane Gustav.

The part I agree with the most out of Ted's comments is that this fear-mongering by politicians, parent groups, and certain insane lawyers will just have to be weathered out until the "gaming" generations take power.  They don't necessarily need to be the politicians though, they just have to the majority of the voting block.  Politicians fear nothing more than not being re-elected.

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