Violence

In class this week we discussed the topic of media violence and how it effects children. In the article, Violent Television Programming and It's Impact On Children, it talked about how there should not be laws to help regulate TV violence because they don't see a problem. The FBI has also but out a  statistic stating that violence in children has actually decreased within the past couple years. Violence on TV has become so normal and popular that kids are now desensitized to it. But in the video, "Mean World Syndrome" Gerbner talks about how media violence doesn't make us more violent humans, but it makes us more scared of violence acts happening to ourselves. Gun buying rates in the past couple years have increased because a lot of people want to feel more safe. I understand how crime rates have gone down, but there are some things that children should not be accessible to. Todays televisions have it set up to where you can block certain TV stations, so parents can control, at least at home, how much violence their children sees.