I have been an editor and writer all my life-from elementary school and onward.
And as many of you know, a writer is someone who just has to write.
So here I am, writing.
Violence begets violence. No longer do the good guys always win. No longer does the blood and gore remain offscreen. Shooting imaginary villains on your X-box, or watching the villains die on your favorite TV channel lowers your sensitivity to pain and dying in general. I used to believe that all the hokum about TV violence was just that-hokum. It may have taken some years - with television and video games getting worse and worse and more violent each year but I have changed my mind. Violence on television, in movies and in games makes it much easier to contemplate killing as a reality exe...
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