A US politician is trying to ban violent video games in Illinois

Not for the first time, a US politician is seeking a ban on violent video games – and on this occasion it’s coming from a Democrat in Chicago. Illinois state representative Marcus C. Evans Jr. is seeking to amend a 2012 Illinois law that bans underage children from accessing violent video games. If passed, HB3531 would prohibit “the sale of all violent video games” in the state, with a penalty of up to $1000 (£709) for those selling violent games. It would also modify the definition of a violent video game to one that “allows a user or player to control a character within the video game that is encouraged to perpetuate human-on-human violence in which the player kills or otherwise causes serious physical or psychological harm to another human or an animal”. The bill would also expand the definition of “serious physical harm” to include a range of other types of violence, including “motor vehicle theft with a driver or passenger present inside the vehicle when the theft begins”. As the Chicago Sun-Times notes, the bill comes in the wake of increased carjackings in Chicago – with officers responding to 218 incidents in January alone. Representative Evans had apparently… Read full this story

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