However, I will note – It’s easier for me to get a .308 rifle than it is to get an airsoft gun here. Because airsoft guns are all but outlawed, and are treated as real firearms by the law. As in, you will go to jail for a number of years, for owning a childeren’s toy.

Our gun laws are kinda really fucked up.

Or, to paraphrase the great scholar and prophet Black Dynamite: We legislated that shit before you even walked in the room!

Your logic, isn’t logic.

The sort of thing that gets posts removed during any talk of US elections?

For people who believe Australia is a puritanical country where no violence is allowed on our screens, here’s a mostly complete list of games banned or censored in Australia due to extreme violence:

50 Cent: Bulletproof, Dark Sector, Dreamweb, The Getaway, Left 4 Dead 2, Manhunt, Mortal Kombat 2011, NecroVisioN, Postal 1&2, Phantamasmagoria, Reservoir Dogs, Shellshock 2, Silent Hill: Homecoming, Soldier of Fortune, Syndicate 2012.

Eight of those were later released under MA15+ guidelines thanks to minor cuts. Only two of those games were worth playing.

…Actually, now you’ve got me wondering if there are Malaysian post-apocalyptic movies.

> For years, Australia’s censors effectively banned games with graphic violence, making titles such as Grand Theft Auto and Mortal Kombat hard to charge money for.

Well, no. Games with extreme graphic violence, those that pushed the R18 rating to its limit, were _sometimes banned_. More often than not they were allowed for sale unedited, usually squeezed into the MA15+ rating bracket. The latest Mortal Kombat was refused classification, but every MK before that was released just fine. Every GTA game has been released here with violence intact, but GTA3 was censored post-release to remove the ability to pick up prostitutes, and GTA: San Andreas was also removed from shelves when the Hot Coffee scandal broke, but was re-released once that code was excised. Again, violence intact. Fallout 3 was edited slightly, with references to real-world drugs changed to fantasy substances. Again, all violence intact.
It’s growing tiresome, always reading about my country being portrayed as a backwater of technology and censorship by uninformed headlines.

Also, I strongly doubt that you are ‘usually one of the first people against censorship’ with an attitude like that.

Too bad about Ninja Gaiden, it was one of the greatest 8-bit game series ever.  (And predicted the Age of Eternal Darkness that we are living in now, but I’m presuming Jaquio won.)