Gee, when I was young, a long time ago, teenagers, myself included, could own and use BB guns and even 22 cal rifles. I can’t recall any multiple or even single random shootings. So why has that changed? Of course then we didn’t have Hollywood producing any movies that promoted and glorified that kind of violence. And we still believed we would all answer to God one day for our actions.
“Of course then we didn’t have Hollywood producing any movies that promoted and glorified that kind of violence.”
Or, Call of Duty.
***Of course then we didn’t have Hollywood producing any movies that promoted and glorified that kind of violence.****
If you paid attention to the NEWS MEDIA back in 1968 we did.
Back then TV shows were so safe it was called “The national baby sitter.”
Movies were under the Hays Code and most were so safe for kids you could drop them off and not worry.
Then Bobby Kennedy was murdered by a Palestinian immigrant and the news media went berserk!
They blamed 5 shot bolt action Army Surplus Rifles, “violent TV shows, pulp fiction, toy guns and movies which “glorified violence!”
So to keep Federal interference away the TV shows dumbed down to kiddie shows.
Pulp fiction changed their covers, toy guns disappeared from stores, Army surplus rifles were banned from import,
Movies shown on TV were butchered to remove scenes of “violence”.
But the movie industry got a pass when they said they would replace the Hays Code with a joke of a ratings system. “G,M,R,X” was the first.
So with the Hays Code gone, movie makers re-shot scenes adding more blood, gore, guts, and lots of sex to get the now coveted “R” and “X” rating.
It got worse through out the 1970s. At this time the mental institutions were closed down, porn was legalized so comic book publishers began to publish violent porn comics “for adults only” but the kids were reading them.
In the 1980s movies were deluged with serial killer movies hacking young teens. The camera giving us closeups of the most brutal murders, with lots of spurting blood.
Also in the 1980s cable TV made a big comeback and bypassed the FCC rules showing many of these uncut brutal movies all the time.
By the 1990s came the Internet and ultra-violent video games.
I recently saw about ten minutes of an ultra-violent movie for adults but aimed at kids. Dozens of the most violent deaths that would have never been allowed under the Hays Code. Again, in just 10 minutes!
Since those days we have released onto society a whole generation steeped in blood and gore with no moral guidance, who think shooting up a school or night club or church is no different than a video game. Fun!
As I said, fifty three years the TV and movies were blamed. Not a word about the ultra-violent TV and movies today from the news channels today. They only blame guns.