If Your Kid's Playing M-Rated Games, You Can't Blame The Retailer
The national debate revolves around violent video games and what should be done with them still no sign of slowing down. The usual handwringers (professional and amateur) expressed dismay that games with guns and handles are sold to the youth of America, leading us to a future non-stop and Grand Theft Auto bursts of inspiration shootings violence nihilistic.
Cries question of "not someone think of the children" probably never disappear, at least not as much as the video games are perceived as not-kid distractions. (Note to Nintendo:. Are not really help with this error) Legal panicists paint a bleak picture in which 10 years stroll hypothetical Wal-Mart with newly purchased copies simulator 5000 murder and disappeared into their dark room, only to emerge moments later, armed to the teeth and greatly overestimate his or her life.
You see, the proverbial 10 years shooting outside a shopping center with a M-rated game is now 23 and perfectly capable of buying their own games million adults. Each year, retail audits and cinemas FTC with an army of minors secret shoppers. And every year, those numbers improve.
thirteen years ago (2000) was the lowest 85% of children were able to buy M a popular game. Since last year, the number was lower in the teens.
Only 13 percent of buyers of minors were able to buy M-rated video games, while a low 24 percent were able to buy tickets R-rated movies And for the first time since the FTC began its mystery shopper program in 2000, the retail music CD is absent for more than half of shoppers. Movie DVD retailers have also shown steady improvement, allowing less than a third of buyers child and buy R-rated DVDs without DVD movies that were rated R for theaters.
this number has not only improved significantly in the last decade, but did so voluntarily. The ESRB provides ratings and retailers to meet, all without the threat of fines or lawsuits. Therefore, if these 10 year olds are shooting each other in the face with fake guns in pixels, they do so without much help from retailers. 
and, as noted above, retailers not only to keep the game from falling into the wrong hands. Other influences "destructive" of violent movies and sweary rock / rap / bluegrass also kept away from impressionable young minds - at least by retailers. 
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