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   that darn constitution

   

   Mark, May 10th, 2005 @ 1:56pm

   
   

   Actually, if you go to the trouble of clicking through to the article (http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3319402), it's not clear what angle the writer was working. It's an extremely brief AP piece -- only seven sentences long -- that reads as if it is the beginning of a longer treatment. All it says is Michigan lawmakers are set to ban violent games, but other similar efforts have been struck down by the courts. There's no position pro or con on that situation in the text, unless there's a longer version somewhere on the web.
   
   What people seem to be responding to is the headline: "Parental unawareness, Constitution hinder effective video game ban." I don't know how the AP works, but my guess is that an editor wrote the headline, not the guy who wrote the article.

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   The Constitution made me do it!

   

   Precision Blogger, May 10th, 2005 @ 2:17pm

   
   

   SO this dude plays Grand Theft Arson 12 hours a day, and after awhile he commits a murder. His defense is that the game he got addicted to, which made him commit murder, shouldn't have been so violent in the first place. In other words, his defense is:
   
   The Constitution made me do it!
   
   - PB
   http://precision-blogging.blogspot.com

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   or...

   

   dave, May 10th, 2005 @ 2:27pm

   
   

   ... we could just have some effective parenting. Now there's some fresh thinking!

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   Re: or...

   

   Anonymous Coward, May 10th, 2005 @ 9:18pm

   
   

   "we could just have some effective parenting. Now there's some fresh thinking!"
   Flawed thinking more like.
   I'm the youngest of seven children. My siblings and I run the gambit politically, religiously, ethically, and economically.
   Yet, we all had the same parents and the same rules.
   There are too many things that are just random.
   Some people are just assholes and there's nothing you can do about it.

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