Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Censored in Japan

Something about these things always seems odd, then it hits me. At 18, you can go buy cigarettes or join the army, but you are apparently to impressionable to handle video game violence.

Im so glad I live in the States. We take a much more rational approach to this. Aside from the few oddball alarmists/opportunists like Senator Yee and JackThompson, I think we recognize that the root cause of violence is in fact not games (like any rational person would conclude.) I think it's funny that critics name Japan as a stunning example of progress and like to talk about how advanced they are yet their attitude towards 21st century media is still stuck in the 1800s.

I play the most violent games and yet im a perfectly normal person. Heck, I don't even own any airsoft guns. I think it's funny how people are always quick to blurt out "violent games cause violence" but yet they haven't actually thought about what they are saying. Anyone who plays games online is all too aware of how many little kids play online. We've all heard their (annoying imo) squeaking every time we play call of duty or whatever. There are probably tens of thousands of them. And yet, we aren't seeing these massive armies of kids rampaging across America. In fact, crime has gone down.