I've seen all this and much worse before. Our kids risk losing a sense of the true value and dignity of persons when they become insensitive to personal violence as well as violent behavior in society. Second, children and teens can come to accept violence as a way to solve problems. Playground and backyard conflicts are being settled in ways that would make Dirty Harry proud. Any amount of killing is all right, so long as one' s cause is just.
Violence is a hero's way to solve problems.
As a result, thousands of kids walk the halls of America's high schools and junior highs fearing for their lives each day. Numerous schools across the nation are instituting programs to teach kids that there are options other than fists, knives, and guns for settling disputes. Third, television violence serves to make kids more aggressive. In 1960, Dr. Leonard Eron studied 875 third-grade boys and girls and discovered there was a direct relationship between the violent TV programs they watched and their aggressiveness in school. He again examined the subjects when they were thirty years old.