Television violence is a major problem in our society. Some people are
working to end it, others are simply ignoring it, hoping that will somehow go
away, and some people are trying to tell America that what a child sees on TV
will not affect him. We must work to eliminate the problem now. Watching
cartoons on television may not make him grow up to be a cold-blooded murderer,
but the total impact of witnessing repeated acts of violence may slowly cause
our society to become more and more aggressive until there are too many killings
to list on the news and watching one while you walk down the street is a common
occurrence. We will never actually be able to tell what the ultimate impact of
violence on television is until it actually happens, but will that be too late
for us to recover from it? Only time will tell...