N.Y. video game legislation

The knuckleheads in Albany are at it again. Honestly, doesn't anyone have anything better to do than split hairs when talking about how to keep "violent or sexual" video games out of the hands of minors? Here's some news from an Associated Press story:

"More than a dozen bills range from a ban, to taxing the videos more, to creating parental controls, to creating an advisory council to recommend action, to requiring warnings that the games could lead to epileptic seizures.
A Senate Republican bill, however, wants to go further than other states have been able to by creating a hardline rating system enforced by a felony charge in place of industry standards. But creating a crime out of a state rating system might not be constitutional, said Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
Hours later, the Democrat-led Assembly passed its version, which would prohibit games from being sold to youths if they contained both “depraved violence and indecent sexual images.” The bill was sponsored by Silver, Assemblyman Joseph Lentol and Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer — all Democrats. The measure would create a felony for violators and sentences of up to four years in prison. It also requires game consoles to have parental controls. "

That's right. The lawmakers want to make selling a violent video game to a kid a FELONY. Forget the fact that it is already against the law, they think the problem is that the high school kids working at Toys R Us selling these games don't face a harsh enough penalty! I mean, it's not like the problem is that parents nowadays are buying their kids these games without taking an interest and learning the game is bad for their 10-year-old, no it couldn't be the parents enabling the problem!

All these morons passing the buck on this "problem," when all that's needed is a parent to remind their kids that shooting hookers and policemen is wrong.

Honestly, violent movies and television have been around for years, but we're not throwing any movie theater workers in jail with a 12-year-old sneaks into an R-Rated movie, and we're not arresting cablevision when the HBO shows nudity in a movie when a child may be watching. So why is it that video games are once again the sole source of evil?