Violent Media Effects Youth, Parents, Leaders Be Proactive!

CNN Republican Debate Question regarding what leadership role if any does each candidate intend to take in inspiring and encouraging parents and society to take a more proactive role in exposing young minds to images that are more age inappropriate.

Columbine,the Massacre at Jokela High School in Finland and the massacre at Virginia Tech have to leave parents and community leaders questions about how we can better create home, school and social environments that can help nurture more healthy and emotionally equipped children.

Today children are exposed to more and more violent images than ever before in our media. Since actions taken by President Johnson back in the early 60's violent media images easily available to children have multiplied over a hundred fold. When President Johnson threw out the film codes and replaced them with voluntary film ratings the floodgates opened to allow the exposure of overly violent images in epidemic proportions to our children. Today the family hour of television is infected with violent images that would never have been acceptable in films made before the 60's. From video games to toys and rap lyrics our children are exposed to toxic levels of violent impressions which...( despite what some so called experts say)...do impact many immature minds in a negative way. What are some of the solutions to this violence overload and over exposure? Will our candidates work to inspire parents and media creators to take more responsibility in exercising more discernment where it comes to exposing vulnerable minds to overly violent media. From Sharon Anne Fox, San Rafael, California

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[leegeorgeson]

Sharon they play the same violent video games in Japan and Japan has a REALLY low crime rate.

[sharonafox1]

@leegeorgeson I lived in Japan. The culture in Japan is quite different from America. There is far more discipline, impulse control and respect for moral codes built into the Japanese culture.

[leegeorgeson]

@sharonafox1 Japan was a much more violent culture before videogames came along :) Especially in world war two.

I am Canadian, we play the same video games and Canada has more guns per person, we are still less violent, in fact right across Detroit, our crime rate is significantly lower :)

I would blame American violence on economics personally but don't get me wrong, I LOVE your videos :)

[sharonafox1]

@leegeorgeson So right, economics plays a giant role in violence. Also our unions trashed our educational system and corporations own the government+broadcast fear to the masses to keep their focus on defense instead of co-creating a world that works for everyone. Corporations need ignorant people to enslave to do the work they are not willing to do themselves. The rich get richer through predatory lending and the masses get angry, violent and use survival skills to survive rather than thrive.

[sharonafox1]

@leegeorgeson So right, economics plays a giant role in violence. Also our unions trashed our educational system and corporations own the government+broadcast fear to the masses to keep their focus on defense instead of co-creating a world that works for everyone. Corporations need ignorant people to enslave to do the work they are not willing to do themselves. The rich get richer through predatory lending and the masses get angry, violent and use survival skills to survive rather than thrive.

[JessFromMead]

You make a good Argument. I'm 16, I play M Rated games like Halo, Doom, etc (No GTA) but I can realize that a video game is not the real world

[qwexas]

Your kids will be exposed to a lot of things at some time. It's your job as parents to prepare them. Teach them to think. Ask them questions and encourage them to ask you questions. Protect them from it when they are very young, of course. Don't watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre with you 4 year old. When they get older, watch TV with them, helping them notice what they learn from TV as they learn it, so they can question it.

[leegeorgeson]

@sharonafox1 What I predict will happen is that the United States will fall as a super power but will be a better place to live after they get their shit sorted out.

I would say that Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, Italy, Portugal and Holland are better places to live now than when they were super powers, just to name a few lol. Hell even Greece with the mess they are in is a better place to live than ancient Greece...

[sharonafox1]

Apology accepted ...I genuinely appreciate all of your comments.  Thanks for contributing to the dialogue. It sure would be nice if parents were aware enough to to their job well.

[sharonafox1]

Hitler didn't empower anyone...he disempowered people to the point where they were no longer thinking for themselves.

I don't stick up for lazy parents...See my Lindsay Lohan video where I portray her mother.