German Minister Wants Jail Time for Violent Game Creators, Distributors …and Players

[w1z4rd]

This includes games like counter strike, and I would imagine BF2.

According to a report in Spiegel, a bloody school shooting in Germany last month has led to renewed calls for action against violent games.

As reported by GamePolitics, an 18-year-old Counter-strike player assaulted his former middle school in November, wounding a reported 37 people before taking his own life.

The rampage led Minister of the Interior Gunther Beckstein to propose amendments to German law which would authorize prison sentences for those who create or distribute game content which features “cruel or otherwise inhumane acts of violence against humans or humanlike creatures.”

The real shocker is that Beckstein would lock up violent game players as well.

Penalties proposed by Beckstein include up to one year in jail and/or fines.

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[Telkomisaloser]

Moaners.... look at me I play GTA and I don't steal cars... nore kill anyone

 

[Alan]

Idiots

They are looking in the wrong place.

 

[w1z4rd]

Battlefield 2 will no more make me want to shoot people in real life, than chess turn me into a racist, or monopoly turn me into a power hungry landlord.

 

[noswal]

Probably start with locking up the kid's drug dealer

 

[NewsFlash]

Assholes! The problems started when they took away the fathers discipline and powers and gave power of might to the kids and now they blame everything else but their own stupidity for the world turning upside down. Human Rights..The future international curse word!