Damn That Constitution! Free Speech Mucks Up Everything!
from the just-get-rid-of-it dept
There have been a bunch of stories lately about the various attempts by state governments to ban the sale of violent video games to minors. Of course, in the past, similar laws have been tossed out for being unconstitutional. Apparently, to one reporter, it's the Constitution that's the problem. If it weren't for that darn Constitution then we'd be able to take away basic rights much easier, you see...
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that darn constitution
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!
The Constitution made me do it!
- PB
http://precision-blogging.blogspot.com
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or...
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Re: or...
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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