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A Military Expert Speaks Conclusion |
This process of desensitization is extraordinarily powerful and frightening. The result is ever more homemade pseudo-sociopaths who kill reflexively and show no remorse. Our children are learning to kill and learning to like it and then we have the audacity to say, "Oh my goodness, what's wrong?"? Reality Check: Sixty percent of men on TV are involved in violence; 11 percent are killers. Unlike actual rates, in the media the majority of homicide victims are women. ...Gerbner 1994. In a Canadian town in which TV was first introduced in 1973, a 160 percent increase in aggression, hitting, shoving and biting was documented in first and second-grade students after exposure, with no change in behavior in children in two control communities. ...Centerwall 1992. Fifteen years after the introduction of TV, homicides, rapes and assaults doubled in the United States. ...American Medical Association. Twenty percent of suburban high schoolers endorse shooting someone "who has stolen something from you" ...Toch and Silver 1993. In the United States, approximately two million teenagers carry knives, guns, clubs or razors. As many as 135,000 take them to school. ...America by the Numbers. Americans spend over $100
million on toy guns every year. ...What Counts: The Complete Harper's Index
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