Germany considers jail time for violent video game creators

Last month, when 18-year-old Sebastian Bosse opened fire in his former school, wounding 37 people before finally committing suicide, some politicians in Bosse's home country of Germany pinpointed a potential scapegoat: Counter-Strike. According to The Guardian, they argued that since Bosse was an avid player of the terrorist-themed PC game, the bloody content may have desensitized him to real-life violence to such an extent that he went on a shooting rampage.

Now, those politicians in Bavaria and Lower Saxony have drawn up a bill that would criminalize video game violence "on humans or human-looking characters." Both gamers and game manufacturers could be held responsible, facing fines or up to a year in prison. Game industry insiders are already planning protests, according to the Guardian article.

To a gamer, this must make Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman look far more moderate. Meanwhile, the true effects of violent video games are still up in the air