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IMHO, parents should be teaching their kids that guns of any kind are unacceptable. Real guns, toy guns, video game guns. They are all garbage.  Agree?  Disagree?

Not specifically guns, but as a parent I was hyper-sensitive to the amount of violence my kids consumed.

In lots of movies we watch the hero kill his opponents, often indiscriminately, but heaven forbid we see a boob.

Guns themselves aren't the issue. It's the normalization of someone pointing a gun at another human and pulling the trigger, which should be treated as appalling instead of entertaining.

Sure, 99.99% of people can watch violent media and play violent video games and not be affected. It's the people on the margins who ARE affected by it that are the problem.

To fix it I feel like we need to start pushing back against a culture of violence as entertainment. That doesn't mean to eliminate all violence from the media, but at least start by treating it as a last resort and by showing the consequences of it, instead of having our heroes casually punch, stab, or shoot anyone who gets in their way.

[cctop]

IMHO, parents should be teaching their kids that guns of any kind are unacceptable. Real guns, toy guns, video game guns. They are all garbage.  Agree?  Disagree?

Not specifically guns, but as a parent I was hyper-sensitive to the amount of violence my kids consumed.

In lots of movies we watch the hero kill his opponents, often indiscriminately, but heaven forbid we see a boob.

Guns themselves aren't the issue. It's the normalization of someone pointing a gun at another human and pulling the trigger, which should be treated as appalling instead of entertaining.

Sure, 99.99% of people can watch violent media and play violent video games and not be affected. It's the people on the margins who ARE affected by it that are the problem.

To fix it I feel like we need to start pushing back against a culture of violence as entertainment. That doesn't mean to eliminate all violence from the media, but at least start by treating it as a last resort and by showing the consequences of it, instead of having our heroes casually punch, stab, or shoot anyone who gets in their way.