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Media Violence

According to news reports, 15-year-old high school freshman Charles "Andy" Williams methodically shot and killed two classmates and wounded 13 others - smiling as he went and stopping at least once to reload the revolver he used in the attack - before being taken into custody by sheriff's deputies. He is being held without bond and apparently will be charged, appropriately, as an adult with murder ("Tragedy At Santee" 2001).
Acts of minors killing minors across our nation is sadly becoming trendy and familiar. School shootings are tragic and yet that is all that is said about them. It seems as though words of action to stop such tragedies are just that. Educated experts study reasons why such crimes take place, but the findings are rarely put into action. The violence and content that the media of the United States displays to children causes hidden irreversible damage that most deny. What it would take to minimize the spread of school shootings is simple and the results would......


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