Yes, if we ban alcohol everything would be better too... try taking their beer out of the table and lets see what happends.

Ban violent videogames.

Yes. That'll work.

Nope, don't work on making sure the wrong people don't get them. Just whip that mighty banhammer out and end it at the source.

Fine - ban rap music, all religous texts, knives, fire, ROCKS - in fact, ban EVERYTHING that can even, maybe, possibly, slightly cause VIOLENCE.

Ban plastic bags because kids can choke on them!
Ban mobile phones because people might drive while talking!
Ban alcohol because it can cause violence!
Ban ALL violent films and ANY music that even HINTS at violence
Ban people from buying fertilizer because that could be made into bombs
Ban people from owning knives, even for cooking purposes, because someone could be stabbed with them.
Ban people from wearing large coats because they might shoplift while wearing them
Ban people from talking Panadol or Paracetamol because some take 50 tablets at once to get high (and to anyone who thinks this is a good idea, it utterly destroys your liver as well)
Ban people from owning lawn-mowers - the sharp blades might hurt jimmy!
Ban WW2 documentaries - some neo nazi might get inspiration from it!

BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN

Taken to its logical extreme, everyone would be living in white padded rooms, eat only organic food (which isn't actually any better or healthier than regular food), couldn't say anything to each other than "good morning" and "goodbye", and have no entertainment at all.

The old geezers in government want to ban video games because
1) They don't play games so it doesn't effect them
2) The government can jump up and down and say "Hey, we FUCKED THE ECONOMY, but we're BANNING GAMES TO SAVE LITTLE HANZ so VOTE FOR US!"

Germany: Soon-to-be controller of thought.

I hate living in germany ~.~

What, no-one's said BAN THIS SICK FILTH yet?

For shame.

Thats quite ridiculous... Hopefully they come to their senses and correct this blunder soon...

Derp derp derp derp

Also ban the law. Shit happens when they break it and it happens all the time.

I could make some historic joke about trying to make a whole populous think the same way as the governing body, buuuuuuuuuuuuut... too easy.

But I'll just leave this here

i'm french and here we don't give a shit about all that stuff
violent game / violent movie / violent music
i ear it from britain usa australia and germany but here, nobody really attack the videogame industry that much, i don't know if it's because it's over or if we're are just not there yet...
i can't really remenber a story about a french going on a rampage remotely related to videogame

Don't exaggerate every request that our Bundestag get.
At least some reasonable peoble in the bundestag will stop this from getting a real law. The video- & software market have a big enough lobby to kick that request.

At last we can sing in an bath tub on sunday :D

I've always wondered, how do scientists know that violent videogames is going to make people more violent anyway? I'd really like them to use their 'violence-o-meters' and try it out on someone who is beating up a punching bag.

Man Germany chill out man..

The more restrictive you are, the more angry the gamers get. And that is a lot of potential voters lost, mein freund.

So just be less restrictive and all is easy town.

You know, I kind of hope that they do ban all violent games (well, not really, but hear me out here, I'm making a point). At least for a little while anyway. Then, after a few years, when they see that their rate of violent crime has not changed at all (or has, in fact, possibly even gone up, due to people not having another outlet for their tendencies), then they'll see how utterly fucking retarded they were being. And then the rest of the world would be able to point at Germany and say "Let that be a lesson to us all" or something whenever the topic of banning games inevitably comes up again.

I put a ban on germany...cause banning doesn't have to make sense!

plus I AM TEH LAW!!!

I live in Germany...
Dear American people, can you please help us to get rid of our insane authorities, like you did before...? pls

@Projectexodus -- I went to grad school with some people who were doing some research attempting to prove that video games create violent children. They do it in very spurious, pseudo-scientific ways (in my opinion). People play a violent video game and a different group plays a gentler game. Immediately after that they'd go interact with children in a room and they'd measure the level of "violent act simulation" which were operationally defined in many ways to include pretending you're shooting someone, wrestling, play-fighting, etc.

Their research did actually show that violent video games made kids more violent, and non-violent games made them more docile. But when the grad students were talking about this, I just had to say, "So?" People have been imitating violence as a form of entertainment ever since ever. Why is this outlet any worse? No one has proven that to me, yet.

"Most sort of diversion in men, children, and other animals, are in imitation of fighting."

--Jonathan Swift