When I grew up I played with toy guns all freaking day and if I pretended to shoot it most of the time it was at other kids I was with. Hours of gun play by young boys pretending to shoot at each other. In the 50's and 60's the heroes were men who shot guns and westerns were the hits of the day.
There was no finger pointing at this type of play and there was more killing when these kids grew up. The glorification of the Bonnie and Clyde's and Capone's are no different today either.
But todays kids play violent video games and the killing has dropped.
So what is different?
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