It's All Their Fault

Blame the movies! Blaming media outlets is often the first conclusion reached when a child or a young adult has committed a violent crime. If not the movies, then music, television and video games are blamed. However, the media is not the first place where the finger needs to be pointed. What parents and organizations against movie violence need to realize is that Hollywood is just that, Hollywood. Movies, games and TV are forms of …

…instead of blaming the media. Government or any other kind of regulation should be the last step. Taking violence out of all entertainment outlets would not solve the problem. Children can still turn on the news everyday and see the same situations or worse on the news. Until the world we live in can learn to be violence free, there is no need to take it out of movies that are strictly for entertainment value