Whenever you turn on your TV you're exposed to violence. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics "A child who watches three to four hours a day of non-educational TV will see about 8,000 small-screen murders by the time he or she finishes grade school". A study of 700 children was also done by Columbia University and found that a child who watches an hour of TV a day is likely to be more violent in his late teens and early 20's. That's just for one hour a day! TV can affect a child who does not know watch he'

Even in the movies we are exposed to violence. Many would argue that what we see in movies also influences or encourages us to be violent. John Gresham in fact sued Oliver Stone because he believed that Stones movie "Natural Born Killers" was responsible for the death of his friend. "A case can be made that there exists a direct casual link between the movie natural born killers and the death of Bill Savage. Viewed another way, the question would be: Would Ben have shot innocent people but for the movie? Nothing in his troubled past indicates violent propensities. But once he saw the movie, he fantasized about killing, and his fantasies finally drove them to their crimes. Bill Savage was murdered by a couple named Sarah and Ben, both were noted as not having violent pasts but Grishams argument was that the images and murders portrayed in the movie made a couple go out and kill his friend. He calls the movie "A horrific movie that glamorized casual mayhem and bloodlust. A movie

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