"Don't try to spin me, sir! This is the no-spin zone."

11:30 am - Can you commit a crime if your actions aren't actually criminal?

Hal Halpin does not want kids not to get these games. He wants them to get them, and the proof is that nothing--NOTHING--is done by his organization to punish the scofflaws who thumb their noses at all the parents who don't want their kids to be able to walk into these stores and buy these mature games. JT

Merriam Webster defines a scofflaw as "a contemptuous law violator."

Last I checked, thumbing your nose at someone is not illegal (although biting your thumb is considered "fightin' words"...), and neither is selling mature games to kids.

So these stores are certainly not violating any laws.

Also, in order to be contemptuous, you must be consciously disregarding the law. If no such law exists, how can you be disregarding it, let alone consciously disregarding it?

Props to Andrew Eisen