Calling the videogame industry’s arguments against a California law that would ban violent game sales to children “logically and morally bankrupt,” the President of the [URL=http://www.parentstv.org/]Parents Television Council[/URL] has penned an op-ed in which he throws his support behind the measure that is now before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Timothy Winter [URL=http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2010/05/10/7twotakesprocopy.html]penned the article[/URL] for U.S. News & World Report. While those unfamiliar with violent games might conjure up “an image akin to a Tom & Jerry or Road Runner cartoon.” Winter warns, “That is not what we’re talking about.”

Winter then runs through a few examples of violence in games that a child might witness before offering:

The overwhelming weight of scientific research suggests that these games can be harmful to children. The Parents Television Council has found more than 3,000 studies linking a child’s consumption of violent media to a child’s behavior, yet we’ve found less than two dozen that conclude differently. [URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/05/11/ptc-prez-california-violent-game-law][B][COLOR=#8e0505]Read More[/COLOR][/B][/URL]

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