They are particularly scornful of the suggestion that there is no establishable link between screen violence and real violence, an argument that has about as much credibility as the tobacco lobby's arguments about smoking and cancer. The tobacco lobby analogy is popping up elsewhere. As for media violence, the debate here is fast approaching the same point that discussions about the health impact of tobacco reached some time ago - it's over. In fact, the tobacco lobby analogy can be taken one step further, not in regard to the weight of evidence but in the actual arguments used. Advertising is often used as one of the most powerful arguments for the media have influencing on us.
Kids can make shooting and hunting come alive again.
We can thank Quentin Tarrantino for illustrating that life can imitate art. In his most recent film, Jackie Brown , Samuel L. Jackson comments on how the latest action films affect illegal gun sales. When Chow Yun-fat used a 9 mm Baretta in John Woo's The Killer , that was all the underworld wanted to buy. This is, of course, at the very least, brand recognition. As most of us feel, the future of this debate lies not with either extreme.