Let’s be truthful for a change and shift our focus away from guns and onto the gratuitous violence that pours out of Hollywood and the movie and video industry. Tipper Gore was the last national figure to point to Hollywood as the true corrupting force at work on the minds of young people, especially the already troubled and most vulnerable to commit a terrible act against humanity. Even the simplest Ph.D in child psychology knows that children act out what they see. But remember what happened to Tipper? She was attacked for trying to curtail the First Amendment of free speech. Then she was accused of being antisemitic because so many of the Hollywood executives are Jewish.
So, until corporate America is willing to put human life over profit, kids, especially trouble ones, will have no lack of role models who shoot, kill and torture because it’s okay in so much of their visual worlds.
Brad Brigham
Colrain