everyone should be able to shoot everything.

[ex8404]

Juvenile violence is at a 30 year low. Maybe violence takes too much energy? Either way, we can't shoot everything because POTCO is rated E-10. To keep that rating, gun violence is out.

E-10 allows a certain amount of mild or fantasy violence. So voodoo violence is fine. Swinging what amounts to a magic sword is OK. Same with knives. No one has been killed by lighting cannonballs lately. Grenades? I don't know how they fit in except that you can't get them at Wal-Mart. Guns are just too real.

Oddly enough, according to the ESRB, simulated gambling should earn a "T" rating.

[SEAKING23]

What about daggers? people are stabbed in the back if they cant afford a gun.

I don't know about you guys but i haven't seen someone get shot with a magic 1700's gun.

[ex8404]

Originally Posted by SEAKING23

What about daggers? people are stabbed in the back if they cant afford a gun.

No. They aren't. But I am really not arguing. Just analyzing.

I know people use knives to commit crimes as well but the numbers are very, very low in America. The truth is that shooting someone is very real and very ugly. Disney has chosen to keep the game at E-10 and to keep the "gun violence" confined to the Undead and the monsters. I have no problem with that because I know that if I want to play a shooting game, there are plenty out there.

By asking the POTCO developers to include living-on-living gun play, we are really asking them to raise the ESRB rating to "T" and that is simply not in Disney's best interest because, face it, it's a kid's game.

[Jello743]

Originally Posted by ex8404

I know people use knives to commit crimes as well but the numbers are very, very low in America.

There not that low my friend, approximately 2.5 million according to the US Census Bureau. Thats just in the U.S.A too...

[SEAKING23]

I think we should ban guns here in america, if they did, people wouldn't need to worry about protecting them selves. And the murder rate would drop!

[Jello743]

Originally Posted by SEAKING23

ban guns here in america, people wouldn't need to worry about protecting them selves.

That wont fix any problem we have in America. There will still be terrorism, killings, stabbings, ect. If someone came up to you with a knife, you have to protect yourself thats why we have guns.

[SEAKING23]

Good point, but if someone came up to you with a knife, just get a kitchen kinfe. what i'm saying is if we ban guns, we wont have to worry about murder as much.

[Crestshot]

Originally Posted by SEAKING23

I think we should ban guns here in america, if they did, people wouldn't need to worry about protecting them selves. And the murder rate would drop!

I'm gonna point you to a little thing called The Constitution, more specifically, the Second Amendment.

A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

And Jello is right as well. It won't fix problems.

But back on to the original topic, it's all about what Disney wants the rating to be. Yes, kids will play games far above their rating. However, if Disney wants to draw more in, they can't have it too high, and therefore cannot let in shooting of real people.