[url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/01/11/massachusetts-city-will-collect-violent-games]Article[/url] [quote]A city in Massachusetts will offer coupons to residents in exchange for violent games. According to the Boston Globe, Robert Dolan, mayor of Melrose, Mass., is planning to launch an initiative “aimed at persuading families to get rid of their violent video games, movies, and toys by offer­ing coupons to residents who turn in those items at the city yard. Residents who throw away items can retrieve a coupon sheet, which will include deals at local businesses and possibly a ‘get out of homework free’ coupon. “If a family has this discussion and maybe tries to get rid of some of this stuff, they are going to get one of these coupons,” Dolan said. “The child may be getting rid of something they like, but they are getting some value for it.” Dolan “felt compelled to start the program following the Newtown shootings” that took place last month and hopes to be collecting games by February 1st. The program will be called “New Year - New Direction” and “residents who throw away items can retrieve a coupon sheet, which will include deals at local businesses and possibly a ‘get out of homework free’ coupon.”[/quote] Somehow I don't think that this will get many people to give up games that they weren't already planning to get rid of. Nor do I think it will help keep children from being exposed to violence.