What Do You Think About Violent Video Game Ruling?

California cannot regulate the sale or rental of violent video games to children, according to a Monday Supreme Court ruling, which threw out the state's ban on the sale or rental of violent video games to minors.

The ruling said governments don't have the power to "restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed," according to Huffington Post reports.

"No doubt a state possesses legitimate power to protect children from harm," Justice Antonin Scalia said, according to the report. "But that does not include a free-floating power to restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed."

According to the Huffington Post report, California law would have prohibited the sale or rental of violent games to anyone under 18. Retailers who violated the act would have been fined up to $1,000 for each infraction.

Should the state be able to prevent the sale of violent games to children? Are complaints of graphic violence in the games warranted?