Just another thought to ponder on. It's probably been brought up millions of times by people. But anyway, I'm interested in seeing what you people think about media and whether or not it's responsible for violence.

Personally, I think blaming media is the biggest load of shit there is. People say "Oh there's so much violence nowadays. In the good ol' days, people were nice and had tea parties." --- No.

In the "good ol' days" there was still people like Jack the Ripper and H. H. Holmes (the first American serial killer - from 1893) And don't forget the whole dog eat dog world of the old west. Did they get their ideas of killing from watching movies and playing video games? No. They just decided they felt the need to kill people, and thus they did. Holmes was even killing people for a reason. He made money from it by taking insurance claims with a fake identity.

And then there's the thought "But they didn't have gang back then having wars all the time and killing several innocents." --- No they didn't have gangs, instead they had Crusades and death marches to kill innocent people, and they made sure that they were dead. There was none of this drive by stuff where you can easily get injured, and not killed. Instead it was a sword in the gut and several stabbings, followed by your house being burned down.

And what happened about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings? That was tons of people being killed for no reason at all. Both of those places were trying to surrender to the americans for almost a year and yet they still got bombed.

We don't have more violence today because of media. We have different violence, and it's a lot dimmed down. We have people getting shot in a drive by, instead of people having their villages burned down.