Like me, I want to play video games forever. ... Sutherland, Rory, the author of " More Grand Theft Auto, less crime ", contends that video games help to reduce the crime rate: Evidence to link falling crime rates and the growth of computer games, however, may be more significant. ... What about me and other players? Nothing happened to me because I just play for whatever the game's purpose is. I kill people and they kill me with sportsmanship; I sell things to people and they sell it back to me. ...

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a report in September 2000 that found that most adult-rated shows, films, music and video games were marketed to children ("Television Content"). ... With this noticeable increase in violence appearing in television programs, the juvenile crime rate has increased. ... " TV did have an effect on me right from the beginning in the first grade, I was a member of a four kid gang that went around imitating TV westerns" (Brandon Tradeoff, NBC). ... It can be used by parents to block out any shows that are rated as violent or sexually explicit ("Television ...

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Another reason that makes me think that they shouldn't have different gun control laws in different places is because I knew a person that buys guns in New York, and some how got them over here and sells them to people by tripling the price. I have asked him how he got them over here, but he never told me how he did it. He told me that he has done this for many years until one time he got caught when he was selling them and was jailed for 6 or 7 months. ... According to the FBI estimate the homicide rate is beginning to fall from 7.0 to 6.2 per 10,000 in 1998.8 This tells us that not many...

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Research has shown that in neighborhoods where there is high rate of divorce, residential turnover, temporary people with no roots in the community, single parent families and poverty, the incidence of juvenile violence and crimes is high. ... They paid little attention me and my younger sister. ... I wanted my parents to buy me toys, take me out to eat and play, and just spend time with me. ... They were all older than me and they really took care of me. Many times, they gave me what I wanted and asked for. ...

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It's hard to take Freedmans side because of the influence I have see with young people around me, people I hung around or know. ... I am unable to see if in fact that they become mass murders at age 30 will take 12 more years to figure out since they are the same age as me. ... I grew up in a house were I couldn't watch rated R movies till I was in high school. Of course that didn't stop me though. ... In that the permission of watching R rated movies at the age of 7 or 8 was not need, but taken upon himself to decipher on which movie to watch. ...

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Even though they are rated for mature users, teens have little trouble finding an opportunity to play games where consequences are almost always never shown. ... It would seem to me that each case is different and unique from every other case. ... I think this research has led me to conclude that while there are many factors that influence violence at school, it boils down to what is in the hearts and minds of those who attack others. ... I don't think I can solve the problem of school violence, but this research has allowed me to look more closely at the students in my own school and ...

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Bisexual youth appear to experience higher rates of interpersonal violence than gay and lesbian youth, although the exact reason for this is not fully known. ... Courtney says, "At first I was a little skeptical about dating someone with a two year age difference but I couldn't help my physical attraction towards her, how she was self-dependent, popular, and continuously showed her growing love and affection towards me"." ... At times, her girlfriend would verbally abuse Courtney by saying, "If it wasn't for me Courtney, you wouldn't have anything. ...

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The TV will talk about nothing else but me. ... The kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn't have messed with me. ... Murder rates in the 10 most violent cities are at an all time low. ...

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For example, Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech shooter who killed 32 people before killing himself left a note that said, "You made me do this.... According to the Jefferson County, Colorado, Sheriff's Department in one of his journals Klebold wrote "I swear-like I'm and outcast & everyone is conspiring against me" ("Rejection, bullying and risk factors among shooters," 2012, par. 9). ...

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ough what they experience on television, children are forced into adulthood at too young of an age. The innocence of youth is lost when children stare endlessly at a screen displaying the horrors of murder, rape, assault, devastating fire, and other natural disasters. Although these are occurrenc...

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The typical R-rated, 90 minute film include between fourteen and twenty-one sex acts and unlike television most acts are visually portrayed. ... A version of Shaggy's hit "It Wasn't Me" talks about a man getting caught cheating "butt naked, banging on the bathroom floor." ...

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Gerbner and Gross discovered violent acts occur on American television at a rate of five acts per prime-time hour and eighteen acts per weekend daytime hour (Huesmann, Eron, and Legerspetz). ... "I kept asking myself why anyone would want to do that to Marie-Eve, and it suddenly occurred to me that it might well be the result of all the violence that my sister and I used to watch on television." . ...

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