In Brazil, violent video games are bad. Violent books, movies, advertisements all ok.

I’ll admit, there are some pretty sick, twisted, and downright disturbing games out there. But that’s just the thing — they’re games. Games are meant to take you into a realm of fantasy. A place outside of laws, science, and yes, even morals. Unfortunately as of late, video games such as Grand Theft Auto and Modern Warfare 2 have been getting a bad rep for their unlawful plots and seemingly sinister undertones. Several countries are now moving to enact laws that would ban violent video games with one such country being Brazil. Valdir Raupp, a Brazilian senator has pushed forward his own bill that would make the sale, purchase, storage, and transportation of any outlawed games punishable by up to 1-3 years in prison.

There’s only one problem I see with this growing anti-violent game crackdown: Video games are increasingly singled out, yet are there not many more times the amount of violent movies, books, magazines, advertisements, etc? Why aren’t they being banned or regulated…?