Read this article about an enlightened politician's take on why his country is falling into criminal chaos. Go ahead, skim it if you like, it will help to really contextualize how misinformed, potentially stupid, this man really is. I do try to avoid openly insulting others, but then some just really make it too difficult to resist.

Skimmed it? Read it? Good! Now, does anyone remember why they banned switchblades in America? Anyone know the old Link Wray song "Rumble"? They tried to outlaw that in America too. They said that both, in their own respective times (switchblades were featured in movies quite a bit in their heyday), promoted gangs and violence, and so irrational out of touch adults (I'm an adult, but not so out of touch, I assure you) and fear mongering politicians, rather than promoting personal responsibility/accountability, blamed these things rather nonsensically.

The ratio of violent video games sold or rented is widely disproportionate to the amount of acts of violence replicating or simulating similar acts. In other words, millions have played GTA3,4, whatever, but of the millions that have played those games, a minuscule percentage went off and reenacted what they played in those games in real life.

Here's a fun theory. How many violent criminals actually bother playing most violent video games in the first place? Think Manson, or BTK, or Ramirez, or Hitler (just threw him in for a funny), or most serial killers all enjoyed games of Doom between murdering people?

Here's an even better one. Obesity! In America, (where I live) it's at what they call epidemic proportions. Seriously, it's fast becoming one of the number one contributors to premature death for most adults in the land of the free and the home of the Whopper. So why hasn't anyone tried banning Pac-Man for contributing to this epidemic? I mean, the game is all about eating, and since people are eating too much, shouldn't we look at how video games clearly contribute to America's weight issues?

It's not The Master Chief's fault some people are killers, any more than it's Pac-Man's fault heart disease and diabetes are rampant health problems.