are exposed to teach harmful lessons and desensitize children’s mind’s to the real suffering around the world. The television industries are the only people that can prevent children from being exposed to this onscreen mayhem, and they should be responsible for regulating what should be shown, who it should be shown to, and when it should be shown. The government is not going to clean up Hollywood’s mess for them. They created the television violence epidemic, so they should find a solution for it. If the television industry does not solve the media violence issue soon, many more kids will be affected and many more lives will be lost.

These four theories display how violent television is teaching children the wrong values and how television violence is shaping children behaviors and attitudes in a very negative way. Even though television violence is teaching kids to be more aggressive, and it seems like the misleading lessons will never end, there may still be light at the end of the tunnel. In “How TV Violence Hits Kids,” Jeffrey Mortimer states, “… Eron and his research colleague, Rowell Huesmann, as leading researchers on the effects of media violence on the young, have a message that is simple: Aggression is a learned behavior, it is learned at an early age, and media violence is one of its teachers. But because it is learned, there is hope it can be unlearned, or never taught in the first place (Mortimer18).” The television industries can prevent children from becoming aggressive people if they would just be more conscientious of the amount of violence that they are subjecting children to everyday.

Even though numerous studies have tried to find links between real life violence and onscreen mayhem, no solid results have been confirmed. Walsh describes a situation where a scruffy pair of Parisian lovers attacked a police garage and made off with an array of weapons. They ended up in a blazing shootout that took four lives. A search of their premises turned up a handbill for Natural Born Killers, yet the police found no evidence that the couple had even seen the movie. It could just have been a coincidence. Still, in the words of James Walsh, “… the idea that entertainment has little effect on private behavior strikes more and more people as absurd(2).” The problem of media violence is becoming a more difficult issue to ignore and there is as Senator Margaret Reynolds of Australia points out, �

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