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According to the National Institute on Media and the Family sixty-one percent of television programs contain some sort of violence each day children are watching television containing violence and they are naturally drawn to it. I recently went to Dave and Busters with my little cousins, and they ran directly towards the games in which guns are involved. Needless to say I find it to be very alarming that whenever a child sees a gun they are drawn toward it. Media violence isn’t exactly a new thing it has been around since the coliseum, and today many children are affected at all ages by media violence, but they younger they are the more vulnerable they are as well. Media violence should be censored, and the public should be willing to risk the dangers of censorship.
Violence in the media has always been a problem. The earliest form of violence in entertainment took place way before television and video games; one has to look back to ancient Rome. As many as 50,000 Romans......

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