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Nisha Gajjar
AP Lang
Affect of Media on school violence.

Whether or not exposure to media violence causes increased levels of aggression and violence in young people is the perennial question of media effects research. Some experts, like University of Michigan professor L. Rowell Huesmann, argue that fifty years of evidence show "that exposure to media violence causes children to behave more aggressively and affects them as adults years later." Others, like Jonathan Freedman of the University of Toronto, maintain that "the scientific evidence simply does not show that watching violence either produces violence in people, or desensitizes them to it."
In the past year, high school shootings have erupted in cities like Paducah, Ky.; Springfield, Ore.; and, most recently, in Littleton, Colo., where Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris shot and killed 12 classmates and one teacher, and subsequently committed suicide at Columbine High School. Congress, in an attempt to discover a......

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