Still?

 Please read the article Target/Kmart bans GTA V below to get my original thoughts.

So, get up early (have dental surgery today) and quickly check my online stuff and the first thing that shows up is the latest Youtube video updates with a Jimquisition video on the Australian Target GTA V ban. First thing that comes to my mind is 'Why haven't people gotten over this', but then a new thought occurred: 'Why are people overseas so damn interested in this story?'. In truth, it has no effect on their lives, yet they seem to be the most vocal on the subject. Maybe we are laid back here, though after discussing this issue with my brother (who is a casual worker at EB Games), we agreed that this whole event could be ignored over since places like EB Games and such are everywhere, they wouldn't ban it regardless of petitions and that not selling GTA V wouldn't harm Target or Kmart sales at all.

Update:
So, just watched the video and I'm not sure what to say. I still don't get why places like America seem so determined to make a fuss over this. I do have to disagree about Jim's point about bringing Australia in line with countries like America in regards with adult entertainment. Clearly the political aspect of Australia wasn't taken into account. See, the thing is, the country is going through a stage where we are dealing with issues of violence against women and children/domestic violence and it's a much larger problem then people realise. The government does it's usual enquiries, but people don't feel like their fixing the problem (our Prime Minister acts like a misogynist and even declared himself Minister for Women - what kind of an asshole does that?) and so we end up with people action like this. I previously said that I agreed that the information given in the petition was wrong, but I see their point and have no problem with Target and Kmart removing the game from the shelves. Besides, if anyone wanted to still get the game, there are multiple places you can get it and they will not ban the game since selling Games is there main purpose (where as Target and Kmart are not). Target and Kmart won't loose money, Game stores will make a little extra and so who really cares, it won't change your life with this decision. It's an Australian problem that Australian's will sort out ourselves. I don't want to get into this whole argument about our countries, but then again we could argue about America's ridiculous gun laws and the amount of school shootings that occur and their inability to solve that issue.

Just trying to give an insight to the political and social reasons behind the action and I apologies if it got a little too heated, but things like domestic violence are a real issue here and while this was a stupid petition with no real lasting effect, I do appreciate that at least the people are trying to fix a problem because our government won't (even if it wasn't very good).