German legislation would jail FPS gamers
By Cyrus Farivar 
posted December 9th 2006 5:39AM
posted December 9th 2006 5:39AM
Late last month, an 18-year-old man went on a shooting spree at his former junior high school in western Germany, killing himself and injuring 11 others. According to reports on the German news site Tagesschau, the man spent a fair bit of time playing "Counter-Strike," which some say may have led to his inspiration to conduct the killing. As a result of this tragedy, two state governments in Bavaria and Lower Saxony have drafted legislation which, according to the Financial Times, would "subject developers, distributors and players of video games whose goal is to inflict 'cruel violence on humans or human-looking characters' to a fine and a maximum of one year in jail." If the measures pass, German gamers, amateur and pro alike, will have to lay off the FPS games for quite a long while and stick to more traditional non-violent games, like, you know, "Pac-Man."[Via Slashdot]
lol, they're still nazis. I guess Jack Thompsonwerffer is in cahoots with his American counterpart.
jail sentence for gaming.....huh wake up dickheads
This is stupid. The media is undereducated and the politicians listen to the media. Violent or people with criminal tendencies are attracted to anything related.
A huge number of young people play first person shooters such as Counter-Strike let's just say 20% of young people just for fun. I bet young people interested in actually killing people with guns such as school shootings and such the number is closer to 80% or 90%. The reason? Violent people are attracted to these games. The games don't create violent people.
if video games affected kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive music.
ah, the wisdom of whoever said that first.