Bill could outlaw violent video game sales in Tennessee
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March 8, 2006
By MELISSA DiPANE
6 News Reporter
NASHVILLE (WATE) -- State Sen. Tommy Kilby of Wartburg has proposed a bill making it a misdemeanor for stores to sell or rent violent video games to anyone.
Kilby says he put the bill together after getting feedback from concerned parents and law enforcement officials.
The bill states games depicting violence against anyone including authority figures, such as police, should be outlawed.
But one gamer says the bill would violate his First Amendment rights.
"It all comes down to parenting. This is not the place of legislature to choose what I as a 32-year-old male am able to play," Dave Roland says.
Kilby told 6 News the bill will have to be amended to outline enforcement.
It also needs to say at what age those games are appropriate to buy, rent and play.
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