Campaign against violent video games off to slow start

Mason City’s Mayor, Bill Schickel, says he hasn’t gotten much feedback frommerchants after declaring in June that he wants Mason City to become thefirst community in the nation to have a “zero tolerance” policy on violentvideo games. Schickel proposed a five-step community response, including having parents tell their kids violent video games are off-limits.Schickel says he IS getting a wide variety of feedback.Schickel says families and community leaders need to actively promotealternative forms of recreation.