Lawmaker Wants Gamers to “Quiet Down” While Bashing Them

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California State Senator Leland Yee should be no stranger to gamers after he introduced the 2005 bill that made sales of M rated games to minors a crime, which was later struck down by the Supreme Court.

Well, he still wants games regulated, and apparently doesn’t like how hard gamers are defending them. In an interview, Yee shared that he thought, “Gamers have got to just quiet down[...] Gamers have no credibility in this argument. This is all about their lust for violence and the industry’s lust for money. This is a billion-dollar industry. This is about their self-interest.”

So, sit back and take your lumps like a good gamer while the lawmakers decide what’s best for you.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but this writer personally tends to speak up not just in defense of gaming, but of myself. When someone attacks my primary hobby in a way that paints it as some hazard that could turn me into a psychopath at any moment, I’m likely to speak up and prove the content of my character is defined by more than the contents of my shelves and computer directories.

Of course, The San Francisco Chronicle points out that even with violent games being some of the most visible, Wii Sports and The Sims are pretty impressively popular. Let’s just hope the gaming industry’s opposition doesn’t notice how many televisions have been the victims of Wii related accidents, and try to spin it as being induced by rage.

SOURCE: Newbcastgaming

Im guessing.he hasn't played Dragon.Quest 8

lol is this guy fucking kidding? Asking gamers not to have an opinion on this issue is like asking gays to pipe down about gay marriage, women to pipe down about abortion, the elderly to pipe down about SSI benefits, gun owners to pipe down about gun control, or Rastafarians to pipe down about marijuana legalization.

:Okay:

I'll pipe down, Lee.

Teckno wrote:

:Okay:

I'll pipe down, Lee.

If only the extremists were like you.

jk.

It seems every week some idiot politician wants to have his say on videogames, a subject they know nothing about.

This is bullshit. We need violence in video games to keep us from shooting up schools.