... more violent than children's TV shows? We can start with TV violence, but where would we draw the line? Without TV, children are still able to access violent movies, violent video games, and comic books. The problem is not the TV, it is violence and violent behavior, which unfortunately is part of human nature and cannot be boxed up and stored away. If TV violence depicted real life, a gun shot wound or a knife in the stomach wouldn't scare as many people as they do. A good example of this was the assassination of President Reagan. TV has taught most people to think that when a person is shot, that person would clutch the wound, cough blood out and collapse because of all the pain. But in real life and in the movie depicting the assassination of President Reagan, President Reagan did the opposite. Only after "complaining of a ...

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