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Originally Posted by Rochard
I don't think that's it. I grew up in a household full of firearms, handguns, mostly rifles. We hunted. Eventually I joined the Marines. But no one ever thought of killing another person, or stabbing them.
I think it's TV. The TV we watched thirty years ago was tame and lame. The crime shows on TV were more "white collar" (theft, missing persons, etc) and no one ever got hurt. Now it's all about brutal murders, realism, people getting killed.
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charles manson's "family" said they grew up watching people being killed all the time on tv with shows like gunsmoke, have gun will travel, etc as some kind of reason for having a love of violence so its probably not much different today. much more graphic i guess but my point is people have been blaming television for society's woes since it was invented.