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Cause this works brilliantly when it comes to preventing minors access to alcohol and cigarettes :)
People know people that know people etc.

The point of these ratings is so that the parents can step in if they notice their kid playing games they don't want him to.

It also empowers retailers to decline the purchase, or to check with appropriate adults if it's okay for sale to their little 'uns. Done that many a time, but ultimately it does little practically.

By the way, I hear Australia has been melting over the past few days, while we had a week with the most snow of the season, fair and balanced :).

Not just melting mate, but burning and burning badly (man, many bushfires). As I am writing it is almost midnight and 29 degrees Celsius. Makes sleeping very bloody difficult. I'd prefer the snow.

Actually this works rather well in Denmark, so its only good to see that the US is finally trying to do something about it :).

Ahh, Denmark. A country I long to visit. Just finished watching "Bron" and am getting into "Real Humans (erk, that sounded rude). Plan to re-watch "Ørnen - En Krimi-Odyssè" after that.

It kinda works, it makes the kids unable to buy the games in person but they can still get them if they want to.

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I totally prefer the snow as well, I hate it when I can't even fall asleep until the middle of the night in the summer. I obviously hate fires even more :)

Yes the fires have been particularly bad so far this summer (a lot of homes destroyed). We need some rain, and badly.

We have some occasional fire problems when it's dry as well but not nearly as bad as over there. Just this autumn there was a fire on the hill a couple of kilometers away from the village where my parents live (1600m height, a big hill), luckily it was put out long before anything could happen.

I can't imagine why some people would even start fires deliberately.

It's really interesting to see where the Americans' priorities lie.

Yep, you have to be of a certain age to buy a game with this law (long instituted in most Western Countries), but you can carry an Armalite, with extended mag, into the store while looking according to the Second Amendment.
I know, it's an exaggeration, but you get the idea (i.e.: "Ya git da idya, dontcha bouey?").
Argh, racism alert!

It's crazy the firepower people in the US can legally own.

Well, hopefully that'll change soon too, although they should've changed their gunlaws decades ago..

Doubtful. Their gun lobby is way too powerful.

Just watched a daily show episode from January 16th that deals with this issue.

Apparently NRA sneaked in a bill that prevents their gun control agency to do any gun control at all, they are not allowed even to keep a list of bad dealers that sell illegal guns, dealers are not obligated to keep a list of their stock and who they sold things to, the agency is only allowed to check those dealers once a year and only does so every 17 years on average due to serious lack of manpower.

The agency has also been without a director for the last !6! years cause he needs to be appointed by the senate, a direct result of a bill that NRA sneaked in to the infamous patriot act in 2006.

So yea, the gun lobby is way too strong.

Wow that is really bad,there`s basically no way of knowing who has a gun and who doesn`t,a dealer can just give the guns out to anyone with money,no wonder crime rates are so damn high.

Just remembered the opening scene from the first episode of "The Newsroom". Everything that guy said is 100% true.

The problem is the Second Amendment was drafted and instituted when, and for a Century or so after, most of the US was Frontier country. It made sense. Now it doesn't.
The USA remains the one modern Western nation where they still kill each other more than anyone else.
The NRA is way too powerful to allow any changes though, believing it is still their God-given right to pack an arsenal of personal weaponry to be used against...each other.

I find it outstanding the number of gun advocates that honestly believe things like "the Holocaust would never have happened if the Jews has guns". It shows a tremendous lack of understanding about the situation.

It's true that gun ownership can reduce crime against you, but it's more likely to cause an increase in tension and violence in conflicts and otherwise non-violent crimes. There are countries with worse gun control and less gun crime. There are countries with higher gun ownership and less gun crime. I don't think there's many places with such a startling combination of high ownership and low control. Quite beyond that, there's a basic flaw in US mentality that leads to so much gun crime. It probably doesn't help that they also have just about the worst welfare system of any first world country.

I also find it funny that the Republican Party, who pride themselves on being so very christian, have no problem cutting back welfare. Nothing says "good christian" like leaving the poor to fend for themselves. That's ok though... they'll have plenty of guns.

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