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Article: Game over: Illinois Governor says some video games are too violent for teens.(Ron Blagojevich)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- February 18, 2005
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Aliens race toward you, firing plasma pistols at your head. Each blast explodes in a flash of bright light. Dodging the bullets, you grab a submachine gun in each hand and shoot back, aiming above the aliens' armband shields. High-pitched screams fill the air as your bullets strike the targets. Alien blood and guts spray everywhere.
As the Master Chief in Halo 2, one of this year's must-have video games, it's your job to save the world from evil aliens. But could your on-screen heroics leave you with offscreen injuries? Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois thinks so.
Blagojevich says violent video games are dangerous because they desensitize kids to violence ...