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Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill : A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence
by: Dave Grossman, Gloria Degaetano

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 302.23083
EAN: 9780609606131
ISBN: 0609606131
Label: Crown
Manufacturer: Crown
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: October 05, 1999
Publisher: Crown
Release Date: October 05, 1999
Sales Rank: 21514
Studio: Crown

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There is perhaps no bigger or more important issue in America at present than youth violence. Jonesboro; Paducah; Pearl, Mississippi; Stamps, Arkansas; Conyers, Georgia; and, of course, Littleton, Colorado. We know them all too well, and for all the wrong reasons: kids, some as young as eleven years old, taking up arms and, with deadly, frightening accuracy, murdering anyone in their paths. What is going on? According to the authors of Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill, there is blame to be laid right at the feet of the makers of violent video games (called 'murder trainers' by one expert), the TV networks, and the Hollywood movie studios--the people responsible for the fact that children witness literally thousands of violent images a day.

Authors Lt. Col. Dave Grossman and Gloria DeGaetano offer incontrovertible evidence, much of it based on recent major scientific studies and empirical research, that movies, TV, and video games are not just conditioning children to be violent--and unaware of the consequences of that violence--but are teaching the very mechanics of killing. Their book is a much-needed call to action for every parent, teacher, and citizen to help our children and stop the wave of killing and violence gripping America's youth. And, most important, it is a blueprint for us all on how that can be achieved.

In Paducah, Kentucky, Michael Carneal, a fourteen-year-old boy who stole a gun from a neighbor's house, brought it to school and fired eight shots at a student prayer group as they were breaking up. Prior to this event, he had never shot a real gun before. Of the eight shots he fired, he had eight hits on eight different kids. Five were head shots, the other three upper torso. The result was three dead, one paralyzed for life. The FBI says that the average, experienced, qualified law enforcement officer, in the average shootout, at an average range of seven yards, hits with less than one bullet in five. How does a child acquire such killing ability? What would lead him to go out and commit such a horrific act?

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- "I watched all those shows and I'm not VIOLENT" rethought . . .
"I watched all those shows and I'm not VIOLENT" is often the retort. A sandwich is mine. Violent behavior results from a stacking effect per endless studies. Whoever is saying "they are not violent" probably didn't have an additional ingredient of home violence and neighborhood violence or an aggressive goading friend,or violent big brother reverence or later, constant road rage or was really unjustly fired or cheated on in their personal lives. Out comes are a result of the stacking of ingredients. We do not know what futures hold for kids so why stack on another heavy ingredient to clog the veins just hoping.

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- The new plague that has swept America.
I've often found it fascinating whenever the media is blamed for the violence that happens in the world. This is yet another pretentious, self-righteous individual who offers the media as the problem. The finger-pointing concept is one that is oh so tedious and moronic. No one is responsible for their own actions anymore. This kid killed himself, oh he was listening to heavy metal. This kid killed another kid, oh he was playing violent video games, let's go sue them. There is always a scapegoat. The very thought that the media is this powerful entity that controls the minds of millions of people is absurdly childish and idiotic. I find it extremely hard to take people who like that seriously.

As children, we are taught to take responsibility for our choices. Somewhere along the line, this excellent, reasonable concept got lost and forgotten. And oh how pathetic it is when we can't live up to those ... Read More

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- Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill
This book hits upon a topic that has become severe in this country; youth violence. It discusses many avenues that contribute to our youth using violence against each other. It brings to light numerous strategies that parents, teachers, and other adult agencies can use to decrease, if not completely vanish, the violence seen in our youth. Fantastically written, this book is a must read for anyone who has kids, deals with kids, or is just a member of our society.

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- Important as Today's Headlines
Lt Col Grossman spent a lifetime studying what made soldiers more efficient killers in combat and able to survive. His work extended in to the world of police officers. With a worldwide reputation Grossman is the goto guy.

And then Grossman turned his focus on the army of deadly young killers. Killers who achieve far better performance than police officers in combat. Somewhere in their "training" was a mechanism that turned off the moral control system and honed their responses. As one young killer explained why he first killed his enemies and then his friends, he was on a roll.

Bound to be opposed by Hollywood, the electronic games folks and others, Grossman has the credentials that demand attention from balanced readers.

Grossman documents the effectiveness of "games" which give potential killers the motor skills, training and discipline to be cold blooded mass killers, ... Read More

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