Facepalm: Equally hard equally it is to believe, the argue over violent video games and their alleged link to existent-life crimes still hasn't gone abroad. A autonomous country representative in Illinois wants titles such as Yard Theft Auto V banned from sale, claiming they are backside a spate of carjackings and violent crimes in Chicago and elsewhere in the land.

The Chicago Sunday-Times reports that rep. Marcus Evans Jr. has filed an subpoena to a 2022 law that prevents some video games from being sold to minors. Business firm Nib 3531 would ameliorate that law, prohibiting the sale and rental of all "violent video games" in Illinois.

The beak defines a violent video game as one that "allows a user or player to control a grapheme within the video game that is encouraged to perpetuate human-on-human being violence in which the player kills or otherwise causes serious physical or psychological harm to another human or an animal," which probably covers around xc percent of titles out there.

The amendment would prohibit CoD games being sold in Illinois

The amendments besides want to change the definition of "serious physical damage" to include carjacking. In Chicago, in that location were 218 incidents of carjacking reported to police force throughout January. "The nib would prohibit the sale of some of these games that promote the activities that nosotros're suffering from in our communities," Evans said.

Grand Theft Car V, the second-acknowledged video game of all time backside Minecraft, has been singled out as a particularly bad influence. Early Walker, who started Operation Prophylactic Pump to prevent carjackings at gas stations and shopping centers, said he contacted several state legislators to ban the game after noticing similarities between the way players hijack cars in the game and the real-life crime.

"I feel like this game has become a huge event in this spectrum," Walker said. "When you compare the two, you run across harsh similarities as it relates to these carjackings."

The bill would see anyone who sells or rents a vehement video game in Illinois fined $1,000.

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Calls to ban trigger-happy video games accept raged since the 1999 Columbine massacre, which was partly blamed on video games. Families of those who lost their lives in the shooting tried to sue several game companies, but the suit was dismissed.

Despite numerous studies showing no links between violent games and violent behavior, they are still demonized for many of guild's problems. In 2022, a Rhode Island representative wanted them taxed, the same year The White Firm famously compiled a video to illustrate violence in games. It appears that President Biden isn't a fan, either.

Banning fierce games in Illinois won't exist easy. In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court said video games are free spoken communication, catastrophe a California police that banned the sale of vehement titles to minors.

"Like the protected books, plays, and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas — and even social messages — through many familiar literary devices (such as characters, dialogue, plot, and music) and through features distinctive to the medium (such as the actor's interaction with the virtual world)," Supreme Courtroom Justice Scalia wrote. "That suffices to confer First Amendment protection."