Too many guns in PG-13 movies?

 

Besides being anti-gun, liberals are anti-fun, consider this article from USA Today.

Gun violence in PG-13 movies has more than tripled since 1985, and now exceeds the level found in R-rated movies, a new analysis finds.

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Most pediatricians, psychologists and child psychiatrists agree that exposure to depictions of gun violence is unhealthy for children, says pediatrician James Sargent of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.This research offers “more evidence that the (MPAA) system fails in its mission to warn parents and protect children,” he says.

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/11/guns-violence-movies/3469607/

The so-called “violence” you see in PG-13 movies is pathetic compared to R-rated movies. Furthermore, pediatricians are not psychologists or psychiatrist, they may have an understanding of the body but not of the mind.

David Horowitz of Media Coalition, Inc., a First Amendment rights group, challenges the study’s conclusions about the effects of media violence and its argument that gun violence in films makes young people more violence-prone.

“At the same time that we’re seeing more images of violence or images of guns, actual indicators of real world violence have gone down,” says Horowitz. “Crime rates have dropped drastically, crime rates for minors and violent crime rates, all of these indicators of what they are suggesting are the implications of the results of this study don’t really show in the real world.”

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Thank you, Mr. Horowitz. I would also like to die that violence in our entertainment isn’t anything new. The Roman Empire has plenty of violence in the Coliseum, from killing animals to killing men, execution of criminals, they were a bloodthirsty people yet once the game was over, they went back to their normal selves.

Today we can’t even execute people on TV, can’t even give them lethal injection without some ACLU lawyer whining is cruel and unusual punishment (the 6,000 slaves Crassus crucified along the Apian Way to prevent a future slave rebellion would have loved lethal injection).

So where do we take our modern-day bloodlust? To the movies! And because Hollywood wants greater ticket sales, they make plenty of PG-13 films. Liberals themselves watch these films in great numbers, so why complain about them now?