Bans on sales to children unconstitutional

So, it turns out that every single attempt to criminalize selling inappropriate video games to children has been ruled unconstitutional. Free speech is tricky. If government can't regulate it, it can't criminalize anything based on content.

Ironically, the government is allowed to regulate sex, just not violence.

This does point out how empty the government's threat is every time they talk about regulating TV or movies or radio. The MPAA and other rating systems are corporate, not government, not because they're afraid of the government, but because if the government did it that would be unconstitutional. And then babies could see naked breasts.

OK, bad example. But they'd also be able to see relationships and violence which their still-forming minds aren't ready to handle.

I like video games. (I can stop any time I want.) But young children shouldn't be seeing some stuff before they're ready. Politicians want credit for protecting the children, but it's illegal for them to do so. And Wal-Mart pretends not to sell video games to youth, but does anyway because it's in their financial interest to sell more games, and to pay a low enough wage that their workers aren't motivated to enforce the rules.