He doesn't mention what game this is, who's making it, or how it can be played. With statements like this, is it any wonder that the bill unanimously passed 102-0? As if this situation couldn't get any more ridiculous, the people voting to pass this bill were quoted on Game Politics.com as saying that it's up to the courts to decide whether or not the bill is constitutional.

This is where taxpayer dollars are going, towards a bill that will be shot down by the courts like the countless other attempts in numerous states before it. This is a state that still doesn't have homes for people after a hurricane. Apparently, online flash games are a bigger problem than the kids who don't have homes, let alone a computer to play them on.

There's a bigger question then, and that's where did bashing of online flash games come from? Sources like the Parents Television Council. In a lavishly constructed manipulative editorial, PTC founder L. Brent Bozell states this about another online game, Super Columbine RPG:

It's stories like this that underline why states are cracking down on the sale of violent video games to minors. Violent video game legislation has passed in Michigan, Illinois and California, and is being considered in many states including Missouri, Kansas, and Minnesota as well as at the federal level. But the players of Super Columbine RPG don't need an ID to prove they're an adult. Any child can just download this sick game, free of charge, in the privacy of his own disturbed world.

The game has players taking loose control of Kleibold and Harris on the horrifying day and playing out the events. It's a message piece, right or wrong. There's some discussion on the availability of guns, parenting, and of course video games in addition to the sick act of deciding how the events should play out. That's not important to Bozell though, or that the movie Elephant also based itself on the same events.

He's pulling the same stunt Burrell did, preying on an uninformed public. He has every right to voice his thoughts on the game. That's encouraged no matter which side of this debate you're on. It's when he does something like this to shamelessly push people away from a new entertainment medium because he disapproves that it becomes a problem.

This is what people see from the video game industry. This is what the mainstream media covers.

That's why instead of ranting and raving on a message board about how much better the Playstation 3 will be than the Xbox 360, put that energy to good use. As a gamer, you've been pasted as a violent lunatic who takes pleasure in playing a game based on Columbine. That needs to stop. Write these senators. Tell them they're wrong or wasting their time passing bills that won't become law. Write the local news when they feature a story on games like Border Patrol.

Otherwise, you're only letting them win on lies.