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http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3045574>>>>
>>>>Our TV's says 34?
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>>>>If Michael Moore and your movies says true, your system helps people have gun easly. You should change this.
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>>>Your perception is not correct. To obtain a gun legally, you have to be over 18 and go through a background check, and you have to license the gun. There isn't much we can do about people obtaining guns illegally, just as there isn't much we can do to prevent the sales of drugs.
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>>>What would you recommend we do?
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>>I recommend a small change in cultural outlook.
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>>For example, maybe in movies, tv and games, shooting and killing could be treated as a 2nd resort instead of first?
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>>Then, when killings like this happen, maybe the news media could stop turning these creatures into cult heros, and simply label them the cowards and garbage of society that they are without giving them pages upon pages of space for weeks on end.
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>I agree with what you say, although if somebody doesn't realize that movies, tv shows, and games are a fantasy world then they have problems.
That's true, of course, but I honestly believe that desensitisation is a serious issue. When one is inundated with graphical images of killings day after day, one can become desensitised to the horror of it.
Let's look at one small item, and before I say this, please realise that it is not meant as any sort of moral judgement. You can go out and shoot a deer and not be bothered by it. Why? Because you were raised to it. I was not, and I simply could not do it. You are desinsitised to the death of the animal you shoot. I am not. This is not a jab at hunting. It is just an illustration of the difference between being desensitised and not. I'd bet (and you may correct me here if you like) that the first time you killed an animal, you had a different emotional reaction to it than the latest time you killed one.
I also realise that hunting is real and movies are not, but images can stay with people. If you did tests, I think you'd find that the first time someone saw blood and gore in a movie they'd be far more affected by it than the 500th time.
