I don’t think more enforced gun control is necessarily the answer.
Those that desire guns in their possession are going to find a way to get them
– strict laws or not.
In
my opinion it is cleaning up the media that needs the enforcing. The media
needs to quit glorifying horrific
crimes and violence. Even the commercials are getting out of hand.
John Wilkes Booth wanted to be remembered – and he is. Perhaps not
in the manner he would have preferred – yet his name lives on. We associate his
name with Lincoln ’s
murder.
At least two movies were made about Amy Fisher the crazed teen who shot
the wife of her former lover or Wanda Holloway the famous pom-pom mom
who plotted to kill the mom of a cheerleader who was/is the same age as her own
daughter so that her cheer-leading daughter would be so devastated and
uncheerleader-like that there would be a position open for her own daughter to
become a cheerleader at the school in Channelview, Texas.
You want your name to live on, commit a horrific crime and it will
be made into a movie. Maybe several.
There are so many advertisements now that seem to promote
disrespect and crude behavior along with their products. Many unfortunately see
this as “funny” and “acceptable”
There are several video games that promote violence. Extra points
or levels or whatever are awarded when you have “killed” or overthrown or
whatever. I suppose that has always existed in fairytales and cartoons. But
wasn’t there a time when we could separate all that from reality?
Bullies, in my opinion, are normally bullied by family members. In
order to overcome their own pain, they must turn around and treat others as
they are being treated. For them it may provide a temporary relief. I don’t
know. But their behavior is getting out of control. And I think the media has
already gone out of control in some aspects.
There is still a wholesomeness which exists if you look for it –
but you do have to look for it. It’s not like it was 40 years ago when all the
families were cookie cutter stereotypes. When the biggest problems that
occurred were when Wally forgot to take out the trash or Princess didn’t get
asked to the prom.
I do like how commercials have developed into not always putting
the man on a pedestal and giving him the opportunity to stay at home and change
the diapers. And fewer and fewer representatives look like man-made models –
they have real people who have flawed faces. They are more human than those
fashionly faces that had nothing to do with the product whatsoever.
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