Media Violence

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the promotion of violence via another media today, be it comic books, movies, or video games. However, over 200 years later, things have, in regards to media violence, not changed dramatically. Are toy guillotines given to children? Certainly not, but the quantity of violence present on television and video games certainly makes up for the lack of guillotines being handed out. This poses another question. Who is responsible for what kids see? Is it the producers that make the video games filled with violence or the directors of the television series? Or does the responsibility for what kids do lay elsewhere with the public and the parents? The public blame is, in most circumstances, readily focused on the most easily accessible scapegoat with parents claiming little to no responsibility for the actions of their children.
Secondly, parents and the public in general will always find a scapegoat to project their fears onto in regards to media violence. Art, comic books, movies, and ...

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