12 People Shot at Mother's Day Parade in New Orleans.

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Rpruett said:

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Dunno if Americans are vastly psychologically/culturally different, but since strict gun control was introduced here in Australia in 1996, (including a ban on semi-auto rifles and shotguns, and restrictive ownership and licensing rules) we haven't had a single mass shooting. Not one, in 17 years. (In the 18 years before the legislation, we had 13 mass shootings, about one every 15 months)

That's fine and good, but Austrailia lives under a complete nanny state.   The banning of video games and forms of entertainment **for your own good**  rivals that of the UAE and Communist China.   We may never agree on this point, but I believe that this censorship is crazy and I think a healthy percentage of Americans would fall in line with that.

I don't want some politician or person in a position of power to decide, what I can and cannot see.  How is that anybodies right?  

It's not even in the same league as UAE or Communist China. I legally can walk down the street and buy God of War 3 or Hitman Absolution, or walk into Club X and buy a X-rated porno if I want to.

Could it be better? Yeah. But UAE and China are a world away. For instance, here I can write "Julia Gillard  (Our PM) is the devil" online and not worry about the cops banging down my door and sending me to a forced labor camp.

Censorship isn't entirely bad; shouldn't things like child pornography or a filmed rape be suppressed?