 Aloha! Thanks for your consideration of the views expressed in this ThinkTech commentary, which we are calling, shouldn't movie producers constrain all the violence? It's hard to deny the connection between violent movies and violence in real life America. But neither the movie industry nor government nor the public do anything about it. More and more of our movies are built around violence, and frankly the violence we see in those movies is getting worse. The level and shock value of that violence has become nearly ubiquitous. It is at least one significant cause of the increase of violence we see in our society. We should all be concerned. We have failed to regulate the guns, even assault weapons, and we also surround ourselves with movies that teach us that using them is okay, and that modern medicine can miraculously fix the gunshot wounds we suffer, at least for the good guys. Look around and you will see that we have a generation growing up in a sea of movies teaching violence and vengeance, and murder, blood, and gore. They are learning in the process that all of this is somehow okay. Against this background, violence has also become associated with right-wing politics. Using his dog whistle rhetoric, Trump has been able to evoke violence against his political enemies. This has become normalized, and if Trump gets back into office it will be all the more terrifying. Of course, we should speak and write and legislate against guns. But we should also speak and write and legislate against violence in movies. If that means limiting the First Amendment, it will be for a good cause, public safety and the protection of our citizens and civil society. We've got to get back to movies as a nonviolent art form. In some ways the genie of violent movies is out of the bottle, but we've got to do something to put it back in, and avoid the destructive lessons that so many movies now provide. If the industry will not regulate itself, we must demand that government, with the help of the courts, properly regulates this problem. Thanks for your consideration of the views expressed in this ThinkTech commentary, which we are calling, shouldn't movie producers constrain all the violence. Aloha.