Sometime today President Biden will announce to the President and the public a proposal to curb the shootings in our schools and other public haunts. Sadly, the major focus will be on weapons and ammunition. There will be some concern for more security in our schools and better care of the less stable people in our society.
The top consumers or the heavy consumers of violent television programs are males in the age group of 18 to 34, followed by females in the same age group.
According to research done by Huston in the year 1992, by the time a child is eighteen years old, he/she has already witnessed 200,000 acts of violence including 40,000 murders on television.
Since the early fifties over one thousand studies have been carried out about the effects of violence on television and in the movies. A majority of these studies conclude that children who are exposed to considerable amounts of television violence are more likely to exhibit aggressive behavior.
According to research done by Buchanan in the year 2000, children who watch more television or even play more video games are exposed to more media violence and tend to exhibit more aggressive tendencies amongst their peers.
According to Denis McQuail's theory published in 2002, violence from media, especially television is encoded in the cognitive map of viewers and subsequent viewing of television violence helps to maintain aggressive thoughts, ideas and behavior.
Most of the children in the age group of two to five years watch television for an average of 31 hours each week, which is equivalent to more than four hours of television viewing per day. No wonder, impressionable young minds are falling prey to the element of violence present on the television.” 3
What won’t be included in Biden’s proposal is anything that addresses the entertainment industry’s moral wickedness which they subject society to through films, television programing, computer gaming and even advertising.
Televised violence is known to have severe effects on all audience groups, be it children or adults. Before you agree to limiting your 2nd amendment rights, consider the following excerpts from some studies on the subject.
Televised violence is known to have severe effects on all audience groups, be it children or adults. Before you agree to limiting your 2nd amendment rights, consider the following excerpts from some studies on the subject.
1. “Prior to this study, it had already been well established that television influences many kinds of attitudes and behaviors by modeling them as appropriate and/or desirable. A highly successful multi-billion dollar advertising industry is built on that premise. More specifically, violence on television has been shown in hundreds of studies to have an influence on aggressive behavior. Over the past 20 years, numerous respected academic and public health organizations and agencies — including the American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association, the U.S. Surgeon General, and the National Institute of Mental Health — have reviewed the existing body of evidence in this area and have unanimously affirmed the validity of that conclusion. Three main effects of viewing televised violence have been noted in the literature: learning aggressive attitudes and behaviors, desensitization to violence, and increased fear of becoming victimized by violence.” 1
2. “Media violence poses a threat to public health inasmuch as it leads to an increase in real-world violence and aggression. Research shows that fictional television and film violence contribute to both a short-term and a long-term increase in aggression and violence in young viewers. Television news violence also contributes to increased violence, principally in the form of imitative suicides and acts of aggression. Video games are clearly capable of producing an increase in aggression and violence in the short term, although no long-term longitudinal studies capable of demonstrating long-term effects have been conducted. The relationship between media violence and real-world violence and aggression is moderated by the nature of the media content and characteristics of and social influences on the individual exposed to that content. Still, the average overall size of the effect is large enough to place it in the category of known threats to public health.” 2
3. “According to a report published by the American Academy of Pediatrics in the year 2000, violence (in the form of homicide, suicide, and trauma) is a leading cause of death amongst children, adolescents as well as young adults. It is a more prevalent cause than diseases like cancer or congenital disorders. 
3 comments:
I get the feeling you are advocating censorship legislation. That is contrary to the 1st Amendment, and gives incredible power to the government to decide what is appropriate or inappropriate. All these electronics come with an "off" button.
It wasn’t my intention to propose censorship legislation. Giving up 1st amendment rights to save 2nd amendment would be a foolish endeavor. I was merely pointing out how much influence the entertainment industry has over our society.
What I would advocate would be a grass roots effort to call upon these industries to adapt a code of ethics that doesn’t glorify or promote gun violence but instead promote responsible weapon use that would closer reflect the society we live.
That would be admirable, but undoable in todays society. Even in my youth the movie industry made "Machine Gun Kelly" et al. Violence and sex sells, and capitalism is about the bottom line vs what would have to be government censorship to regulate the content of what can and cannot be viewed. The responsibility still lies with the parents, and government control usurps that responsibility, (which it is trying to do) thus the encroaching nanny state. The society we live in now is a result of the permissiveness of the liberals that started in the 60's and now are in positions of higher education and political power, thus lenient sentencing for gangsters, illegals, the mentally ill, these groups responsible for the majority of gun violence, not law abiding gun owners.
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