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Originally Posted by SeeBass
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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Lots of things, which is why you cannot solely lay the blame on any single factor. You can't blame gun culture, like many are doing here, without understanding all the factors that have contributed to that culture.
Media shapes peoples minds, doesn't matter if it is movies, tv, music, or video games.
Do I think media makes people grab a gun and walk into a school and start shooting people? Of course not, but you can't deny there is an impact.