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Democratic Senator Tommy Kilby's SB3981 seeks to outlaw the sale of violent games within the state.

Add Tennessee to the list of states considering gaming legislation. Last week, Democratic Senator Tommy Kilby filed SB3981, which would make it illegal to sell or rent an "extremely violent video game" in the state of Tennessee.

The bill defines the phrase "extremely violent video game" as "a video game in which the range of options available to a player includes killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting an image of a human being," with a number of clauses specifying that a game would have to be patently offensive to prevailing community standards, among other things, to be considered extremely violent.

The law also takes into account whether or not the virtual victim is an authority figure, whether the victim is conscious of the abuse taking place, and whether the player of the game intends to inflict severe mental or physical pain or suffering on the virtual victim.

Other factors that would nudge a game into the "extremely violent" category "include infliction of gratuitous violence upon the victim beyond that necessary to commit the killing, needless mutilation of the victim's body, and helplessness of the victim."

If passed, the bill would take effect July 1.
By Brendan Sinclair -- GameSpot
Posted Mar 9, 2006 5:50 pm PT

This is bulls**t!

I am a legal adult. If I want to but a violent game, then I have all the right in the world to do so! Or is this not the "land of the free"? (Yeah, stupid remark there, but it still kind of holds true.)

The government here is trying to tell me that even though I am of legal age, that even though I can vote for president, I am not capable of understanding that the violence in a video game is not to be exercised in real life.

Bulls**t!

If this goes through, I may just decide to leave Tennessee.