tylerdfc is onto an important bit of idiocy – Bill Would Hold Game Makers Accountable For Players’ Actions:

House Bill 2178 proposes to hold the makers and sellers of violent video games liable if someone under 17 years old commits a crime, due in any part, to playing the game.

It’s not bad enough that you aren’t responsible for your actions anymore, but we see again the tired, long-since discredited theory of strong/direct media effects rearing its stupid head.

Only in America do we focus on the .00001% exception in making policy. One kid wigs out and burns down the motherhouse after watching SpongeBob while 50 million watch the same show and carry on like normal kids. Hmmm- must be SpongeBob’s fault, no?