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Violent video games: Yee may craft 'narrower' bill

Original post made on Jun 28, 2011

The U.S. Supreme Court by a 7-2 vote Monday struck down a California law that banned the sale or rental of violent video games to children under the age of 18. The law was drafted by state Sen. Leland Yee, whose district includes Portola Valley and Woodside.

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Posted by Arch Conservative
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Jun 28, 2011 at 1:52 pm

Isn't there a budget that is supposed to be in place? Yee should concentrate on that.
And the good thing is that Yee is not being paid at the moment.
Thank you John Chiang!!


Posted by Hmmm
a resident of another community
on Jun 28, 2011 at 9:42 pm

Maybe if Yee started to do something humane, such as work on banning shark fin soup, I could have more respect for him. Hey, it's real life violence - doesn't that count for anything? But that would cost him too many votes from his supporters. So instead, he goes for something like this.


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