Despite many thousands of myth’s out there, media does not effect people in a negative way. Although many people mindlessly claim they have proof for the ‘Media Violence theory’ (media violence effecting children negatively), they really do not. If asked, most will only claim some vague reason. It is essential to create awareness of the falsities within this theory, for it is on the verge of claiming many casualties, our rights, such as the First Amendment, for one.

The first thing we must do is to set out and look at all the arguments logically. First of all, if media violence were in fact warping children into mindless killers, and if media violence is on the rise, wouldn’t then, homicide rates and overall crime be rising? Media violence is unarguably on the rise. So then must youth violence. Although almost 2/3’s of the entire United States population strongly believes and would agree with that statement, that juvenile homicide rates and overall violence is increasing steadily, and more than 70% of the population believes that their child being shot or assaulted would not be uncommon. In fact, crime rates are not even at a standstill, but dropping dramatically

“Then her mother and I started helping her tell her stories. She wrote them, performed them, drew them like comics: sometimes bloody, sometimes tender, always blending the images of pop culture with her own most private fantasies. She came out of it just as fiery and strong, but more self-controlled and socially competent: a leader among her peers, the one student in her class who could truly pull boys and girls together.”

This is an excerpt from the website of a renowned comic book author Gerard Jones. He has teamed up with a team of social/child psychologists in a study with younger children, helping them control their anger through violent media.

Unfortunately for those supporting the ‘Media Violence theories’, studies and such are all well and debatable, until, we look at the children themselves.

These guys -- "a bunch of kids who like to play games," says Steve Gibson, a skinny 23-year-old with long sideburns, in his soft, slightly embarrassed voice -- are living out the fantasy of every hardcore gamer: earning a living making and playing 3-D action games. Steve runs a gaming website called shugashack.com; the rest work at companies that have sprouted up here after the runaway success of id Software's Doom and Quake in the mid-'90s. As shooter fans, they belong to a largely hidden subculture whose members serve as the ultimate arbiters of cool within the larger electronic-games industry.

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