The ESRB rating system is the most efficient of them all in my opinion. Games are rated for a reason. Thompson always acts like all games are rated E for everyone and any 9 year old can waltz and buy whatever he wants. If a kiddie gets his hands on Resident Evil 4 then an adult gave it to them. If a game is rated M, that mean you basically have to be an adult to play it. If you can't handle violent images by the time you're 17, if a violent image literally makes you pick up a gun and kill another human being (he doesn't seem to consider the gravity of what that actually says about a person's mental state of being), the problem isn't games people, the problem runs much deeper than that.
Of course, we all know that...As gamers, none of us have tried to dive off a building and summon Valefor or shoot somebody with a shotgun, I'm sure. It's not really any more of an immitatable art than what's on T.V. or movies or what-not. If Thompson really wants a country where the goverment only lets you see exactly what they want and nothing else is allowed to touch your eyes, then he should just hop on a plane and fly to a country where the government controls everything. I'm sure he'll like it plenty.
The books schools allow students to read are worse than games are anyway. Lord of the Flies is about a bunch of evil little preteen bastards with spears. Shakespeare has two teenagers committing suicide... But I guess books are OK now that the literature debate has ended... And now rock n' roll is OK... Now comic books don't warp your mind anymore either... These things just get replaced and replaced and never end. It's human nature to blame everything on everything but what it needs to be blamed on.
Adam arguing with him about it doesn't do much. Both of them are just shouting nonsense at each other when neither is remotely persuadable on the subject. Kind of like me typing this entire post was pointless