Utah politicians have never been known for actually knowing what they're talking about. I found this transcript of a discussion in which one politicians debates the president of the Utah Retail Merchants Association regarding controversial video games.

The politician repeatedly confuses Bully, the recent high school sim game from Rockstar that created a lot of debate about violence in video games prior to its release but ended up being about as violent as a Hello Kitty game, as "that Columbine game". He's confusing Bully with Super Columbine, a web-based RPG developed by one person. He even asks what Super Columbine's rating is, which shows his ignorance of the issue because Super Columbine is not a game sold at retail stores, it's just a very simple 2D role playing game that one very bored person made in their spare time.

The scary thing is that these people have the power to do thing like ban violent video games, even though they clearly have no idea what they are talking about.

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