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<blockquote data-quote="DaisyFace" data-source="post: 245641" data-attributes="member: 6546"><p>Janet--</p><p> </p><p>When I read your post, I had to check where you live...</p><p> </p><p>I notice a real disparity in attitudes about guns in the north vs the south. Yankees seem far more concerned about gun violence than southerners. I am on the Yankee side--no guns in the house and no gun violence in video games. on the other hand, we have a good friend from the south with a couple of kids the same ages as ours. He has no trouble with letting his kids play any kind of video game or watch movies with gun violence--but he draws the line at foul language.</p><p> </p><p>I remember the first time I saw him let the children play a game with violent gun fighting. What!?!?!? <em>O don't worry</em>...he told me...<em>it's rated Teen just for violence, not language...there aren't any bad words in this game at all.</em></p><p> </p><p>Now, I'm OK with bad language in movies....and I will let the children watch a movie rated for language....just as long as I don't hear those words repeated. Our friend? Absolutely shocked that we feel this way, and prefers that we not expose his kids to such movies. Graphic, gory violence, though...that's OK.</p><p> </p><p>So I guess you have to pick and choose your games and movies to coincide with your own set of family values. </p><p> </p><p>--DaisyF</p><p> </p><p>(Janet--I am not trying to imply that you are OK with graphic, gory violence...I was just intrigued by your response about having guns in the house and teaching the kids how to use them so young.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaisyFace, post: 245641, member: 6546"] Janet-- When I read your post, I had to check where you live... I notice a real disparity in attitudes about guns in the north vs the south. Yankees seem far more concerned about gun violence than southerners. I am on the Yankee side--no guns in the house and no gun violence in video games. on the other hand, we have a good friend from the south with a couple of kids the same ages as ours. He has no trouble with letting his kids play any kind of video game or watch movies with gun violence--but he draws the line at foul language. I remember the first time I saw him let the children play a game with violent gun fighting. What!?!?!? [I]O don't worry[/I]...he told me...[I]it's rated Teen just for violence, not language...there aren't any bad words in this game at all.[/I] Now, I'm OK with bad language in movies....and I will let the children watch a movie rated for language....just as long as I don't hear those words repeated. Our friend? Absolutely shocked that we feel this way, and prefers that we not expose his kids to such movies. Graphic, gory violence, though...that's OK. So I guess you have to pick and choose your games and movies to coincide with your own set of family values. --DaisyF (Janet--I am not trying to imply that you are OK with graphic, gory violence...I was just intrigued by your response about having guns in the house and teaching the kids how to use them so young.) [/QUOTE]
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