How many times, while watching television, have you seen a dead body or someone being killed? Countless, because violence sells! However does this mean that the media is to blame for the growing number of violent crimes in our country? I believe not!
Many of today's television shows would be taken off the air if there wasn't some sort of violence on them. Take the show “ER” for example, they don't always show you how their patients become injured but they always show you the victims at their worst times. In the show “Law and Order” They never show the killer actually killing the victim, because that would ruin the whole show, but they always show the crime scene when it is first discovered. Meaning that there are dead bodies and lots of blood everywhere. The point is violence is one of the many things that human beings think is exciting, and usually when we conceive something as being exciting we try to either watch or carry out that act as much as possible.
Violence among young people today is a mixture of many things. The parents of these kids do not connect enough with their children to realize that they are troubled. High school students make life a living hell for anyone who goes their, even the popular kids, everyone gets made fun of at some point. Television/video games are so much easier for kids to play than something that means they would have to sweat, and therefore they see violence on a daily basis. Lastly the Internet is the single most used source for teenagers in the United States, and on the Internet is anything that you can desire. In our case violence is what is desired, and at some point in every young boy's life they want to know about it.
Experience tells me that at some point in every teenage boy's life they feel they need to experiment with some sort of violence of reckless endangerment. In mine and my friend's case, we would construct small bombs, made out of household cleaning substances, and set them off in a field by our houses. We also loved setting off fireworks, and constructing and launching our homemade rockets. There is a certain void in normal teenage boys that needs to be filled. The need for destruction. In some kids that void is easy to fill such as, shooting their “GI-Joes” with their “BB-gun.” Or throwing their stuffed animals off of their porches and into oncoming traffic. However for some teens they decide that they need more, so they decide to become their favorite heroes off of television and eradicate all of the evil forces in their lives.
The point is that the “blame game” for violence among young adults can't be won by any one reason. It is a combination of many different factors that result in a violent adolescent, not just the television, internet, or movies. But the way that kids are raised can result in a violent lifestyle.
