Court tosses California video game ban

[Owen Sparks]

Crime is an action, not a tool.

 

[azmjs]

I wonder if there will be any way that this can be used to get at high schools that prohibit images of guns.

There may be a thread to pick up with regards to the apparent SC holding that violent imagery is not obscene, and therefore protected speech.

Iffy, but through law, all things are possible

 

[cbrgator]

I wonder if there will be any way that this can be used to get at high schools that prohibit images of guns.

Schools are not bound by the same standards as the state itself. It is permissible for schools to restrict the 1st and 4th Amendment rights of students. School regulations are not subject to strict scrutiny review like the states. School regulations need not be compelling, but merely reasonable (which is a very lax standard).

Nothing in this case will be construed to allow your kids to walk through the hallways of a school with a picture of an AR-15 on his T-shirt if the school doesn't want him to.

 

[mgmorden]

Nothing in this case will be construed to allow your kids to walk through the hallways of a school with a picture of an AR-15 on his T-shirt if the school doesn't want him to.

Indeed. The situation in schools is terrible these days. In my high school not only did forbid such imagery, but they also required that all shirts be tucked in (and that you wear and identification badge around your neck at all times).

During a SC summer I don't want my shirt tucked in. Its just uncomfortable. So I basically just refused to deal with it. If an admin made me tuck it in I'd walk around the corner and pull it back out. To heck with em. I was no thug - I graduated 2nd in my class with the highest SAT score that school had seen at the time (I say at the time that was smashed 3 years later - had a girl get a perfect 1600 O.O). I just didn't want anyone telling me how to dress.