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Show Al0_ _ TheSalt Lake Tribune NATION Friday, May 14, 1999 Video-Game Manufacturers senators, sponsored two amendments to the Senate's juvenilecrimebill that address objectionable material in video games, Try to Take Cover @ Continued from A-1 music, movies and the Internet lence in their games. scheduled sored by Hatch and Sen. Sam “murder simulation” by some, taught Harris and Klebold howto aim andshootin reallife. avoided questions. They didn’t want to discuss the issues of vio- Both amendmentspassed the Senate on Wednesday. The first amendment, sponBrownback, R-Kan., asks the Fed- a to run and hide.” But many videogame makers at the trade show And one convention seminar for Thursday about ethics in entertainment software —and presumably aboutviolence in games — was suddenly can- eral Trade Commission and the celed. No reason was given. Department of Justice to examine the extent that makers of video One publisher, Interplay, which puts out the violent car game, Gun Bill Gets Second Look From the Senate the Republicans’ 55-45 control in the Senate. A voteis expected today. With Republican support, the Senate Thursday also passed restrictions on juvenile possession of assault weapons and ammunition clips. The pro-gun forces recognized how vulnerable they had made @ Continued from A-1 themselves when Reno attacked ed in defeating an amendment to Wednesday's legislative action in unusually harsh terms Thursday morning. a youth-violence bill that would have required mandatory checks. eo games make teens aggressive is forcing game makers to take the young audiences with violent or “Carmageddon 2” (in it, players are awarded points for running Ads for some of the most vio- down pedestrians), said that they have only three violent games out “Despite all you hear. the evi- lent video games promiseit's “As of more than 200. Andit is mostly easy as killing babies with axes,” adults who buy their games anyway, he said. “When people think of games, sellers at gun shows. Green, Interplay’s director of communications. “Over 80 percent of the people who purchase our gamesare over the age of 18."" meetings with the NRA and restive Republicans, “requires 24hour background checks for all transfers of firearms at conference. Within minutes Clinton added his voice. “For the life of me,” Clinton said, “I can't figure out shows,” according to his official summaryof the proposal. how they did it, or why they passed up this chance to save new proposal with other Republicans and they supportedit, meaning it waslikely to pass in light of tors who had backed Craig on The argumentthat violent vid- defensive dence simply does not exist to games, music and movies target sexually explicit entertainment support a link between playing a or that “You're gonnadie.” ting mass murder,” sored by Hatch and Sen. Pat Leahy, D-Vt., encourages Internet violent video game and commit- said Douglas Lowenstein, president of the In. teractive Digital Software Associ ation, during the trade show's opening remarks. “Video games don’t teach people to hate, they don’t teach people to embrace Nazi ideology.” But Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch wor ries about how easily young chil dren cangetviolent video games and he wants the current video: gamerating system, which works The second amendment, spon- service providers to make Internet filtering programs available to subscribers free or at a low cost. These programs allow par- ents to block out pornographic Websites fromtheir computers. “He[Hatch] is certainly not goingtoblameall ofthe world’s violence ononething,” said Senate Judiciary Committeepress secretary Jeanne Lopatto, “But he much like the movie rating guide can’t ignore the powerful medium to be enforced. “Thetime has come forus as a and he wants to give parents the nation to demand more accountability from everyone involved — including the entertainment in- that our children are exposed to, tools they need to help them.” The juvenile crimebill, which providesstates $450 million for the Republican senator stiffer sentencing and to build mittee on May 4. “Whycan't this more detention facilities as well as other measures to curb juve- dustry,’ told the Senate Commerce Com- industry, which is a sourcefor so much good in America, do more to discouragethe production and marketing of filth to children?” Hatch, nile crime, has not been debated yet in the Senate Lowenstein said Thursday morning that “the entertainment along with two other Bonded & Insured —- eal U 966-9366 sonssttnn| Pacman = <e «2 (7) FE 15 VENTS — = yy transplants!!! come from violent games are just make-believe. “They are a release. It's entertainment,” hesaid. “It’s not to be taken seriously.” the Senate has decided to makeit ingless byits critics, that enabled voluntary background checks by easier for felons, fugitives and other prohibited purchasers to buy guns,” Reno said at the Justice Department’s weekly news Craig’s latest proposal, which he said he hammered out after Craig said he had cleared the lives.” Several key Republican sena- Wednesday had already begunto original decision to press for a floor vote on mandatory gunshow checks because they were convinced that they had political momentum behind them. At a White House summiton teen vio- lence Monday, representatives of the firearms industry had endorsed the gun-show checks, and even the NRA hadsaid it would considerthe idea. Amid frantic vote counting, gun-control advocates decided they would try to press a measure by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, DN.J., to regulate gun-show sales. 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