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> A culture that sees mass shootings as normal That's just muddying the water by bringing up an irrelevant issue. We are talking about displays of violence in

> A culture that sees mass shootings as normal That's just muddying the water by bringing up an irrelevant issue. We are talking about displays of violence in movies.

bambax 4y ago
No. Images of school shootings can't be shared on social media. Why not? Wouldn't it help to show what guns are for?
- cato_the_elder 4y ago
  This verges on trolling. I'm sure as you know, guns are mostly used in wars, not school shootings. > Why not? Privacy of the victims?
  - bambax 4y ago
    Guns owned by individuals in the US are not used in wars. We could blur faces if that's really the one problem preventing sharing gore images of school shootings. Somehow I doubt that's the reason though.
Comevius 4y ago
The average American watches 5 hours of TV each day, 2/3 of the shows are about physical violence. The entertainment industry is a propaganda for the gun industry because people feel that violence is everywhere, and that guns are needed for protection. Research on the effects of viewing violence found a desensitizing effect, especially for children. People become less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others and more fearful of the world. This effect is much less pronounced for video games, which tend to not dramatize violence. There is a reason we try to curtail violence in the media in Europe. When you engage with a fantasy many hours a day, it becomes your reality.
- cato_the_elder 4y ago
  > The average American watches 5 hours of TV each day That's an overestimate, it's probably closer to 3 hours per day [1]. Also, if you exclude the elderly (like +55), it probably becomes significantly less. > people feel that violence is everywhere It really is though. Right now, there's a war going on in Europe. Curtailing it wouldn't make it go away. > Research on the effects of viewing violence found a desensitizing effect, especially for children. Like the vast majority of social sciences, that area is full of low-quality studies. [1]:"In the 2013–17 period, the U.S. civilian noninstitutional population ages 15 and older spent an average of 2 hours 46 minutes per day watching TV." (https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-7/television-capturing-americas-attention.htm https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-7/television-capturing-a...)
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> A culture that sees mass shootings as normal That's just muddying the water by bringing up an irrelevant issue. We are talking about displays of violence in movies.

bambax 4y ago

No. Images of school shootings can't be shared on social media. Why not? Wouldn't it help to show what guns are for?

cato_the_elder 4y ago
This verges on trolling. I'm sure as you know, guns are mostly used in wars, not school shootings. > Why not? Privacy of the victims?
- bambax 4y ago
  Guns owned by individuals in the US are not used in wars. We could blur faces if that's really the one problem preventing sharing gore images of school shootings. Somehow I doubt that's the reason though.

Comevius 4y ago

The average American watches 5 hours of TV each day, 2/3 of the shows are about physical violence. The entertainment industry is a propaganda for the gun industry because people feel that violence is everywhere, and that guns are needed for protection. Research on the effects of viewing violence found a desensitizing effect, especially for children. People become less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others and more fearful of the world. This effect is much less pronounced for video games, which tend to not dramatize violence. There is a reason we try to curtail violence in the media in Europe. When you engage with a fantasy many hours a day, it becomes your reality.

cato_the_elder 4y ago
> The average American watches 5 hours of TV each day That's an overestimate, it's probably closer to 3 hours per day [1]. Also, if you exclude the elderly (like +55), it probably becomes significantly less. > people feel that violence is everywhere It really is though. Right now, there's a war going on in Europe. Curtailing it wouldn't make it go away. > Research on the effects of viewing violence found a desensitizing effect, especially for children. Like the vast majority of social sciences, that area is full of low-quality studies. [1]:"In the 2013–17 period, the U.S. civilian noninstitutional population ages 15 and older spent an average of 2 hours 46 minutes per day watching TV." (https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-7/television-capturing-americas-attention.htm https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-7/television-capturing-a...)
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