Deborah Harrell wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graphic, Violent Images Can Curb Kids' AggressionUh, Chad old boy, it was *actual pictures* of the _results_ of violence that changed the kids' attitudes:
Precisely: pictures of the results of /actual/ violence.
Actually /reading/ the story, one comes across this:
Cornwell argued that some of the current problems of violence among teens and children may stem from the fact that they are often surrounded by media that "minimize the consequences of violence."
People who are killed with real guns don't get another life. There are no "power ups" that can restore their health points.
And for those who survive who proudly show off their scars and say that getting shot was "no big deal", there are the others who aren't walking around proudly showing off their scars because spinal cord damage left them unable to walk, confined to a wheelchair and peeing through a catheter, and who frequently run up on the order of $100K in health care costs, probably to be borne by the public because they were not covered by insurance . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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