Shouldnt violence be banned in movies after such incidents at Virginia?

Question

Virginia killer emulated violent Korean film-CENSORS should act!

Answer 1

no, people need to get it together and quit blaming everything on anything but the REAL PROBLEM!! You have no idea how many scary movies I have watched...do I want to hack someone up?? NOPE!! These people are SICK. Censor all the movies and games, etc...guess what ...they will STILL KILL!!!

Answer 2

I really do not think you can ban violence in movies, and I am not sure this is the problem, or if it is, it is only one of the many factors. My husband and I have this discussion about censorship all the time...I remember when books would be banned and people would burn them..but in my opinion, it takes a degree of intellect to read a book, I think for those that are simple (for lack of a better word)or unbalanced music and movies are much more powerful. I believe it is easier for these people to take what they see in movies and hear in music out of context...Ultimately, I believe this individual was unbalanced, and most normal people would not do this obviously... but the question is why do we see this violence more and more? What I wish is that artists(musicians, producers) would be more responsible in what they put out there. I do believe that seeing violence over and over again desensitizes people....and I believe children(and I do consider people in college: kids- he was 23-and maybe it would have happened anyway but it's not like it was years ago-when you were 18 you were out on your own;don't get me wrong someone unbalanced is unbalanced but I think there are many more variables today contributing to that then there were years ago... )- are very suseptable(?) to this... I also think the media focuses on this way too much-leading the way for copy cats-I think if it was published in the paper and that was it, you would not see this as often, but that is only my opinion...Oh Yeah, and I do have to comment on the ease he had in getting a gun...what kind of background check did they do..I know people can get guns off the street, but our governments should not make it easy for people....To be honest, I cannot understand why someone would want a gun except for a cop...I think if you own a gun and have it loaded and ready, it is more likely someone in your family will get shot with it...My dad was a cop and he had the gun in one place and the bullets in the other(all locked up in the attic,in my parents' bedroom) It was never loaded at the house, and I did not know where he kept it until after he passed away...He was not so concerned with someone breaking in, then one of us getting hurt....and this was in the seventies

Answer 3

People have been emulating those they think have a hold on them, whether it be a positive hero or even a killer, which seems to be on the uprise, since the beginning of time. The movies are responsible for what they create and we, as a society, are responsible on how we act on our own behaviors. It's a choice to follow or not. Abused wives are portrayed in films as pacifists and in the real world most women are. We can all relate to someone in a film and some take it to the extreme.

Answer 4

No why should they. The Romans weren't watching movies and playing violent video games during their war campaigns or crucifixtions.
Attila the Hun, Alexander the Great, The Vikings and the Barbarians did not own a playstation nor play Grand Theft Auto.
They certainly didn't own guns but did much damage without them. You need to look at the history of the human race our violent tendencies have nothing to do with vidoe games, movies or music. That's just how we are. Humans kill for sport power and the hell of it. We have never needed an outside influence just an excuse. It makes it easier to fault something other than ourselves.

Answer 5

There is always two sides of a coin. Movies do have educative value & effect on the happenings of the society but it act both ways. Where as it teaches violence, it does teach the ways to deal with such extremes of happenings. Moreover the cinema sells what people like to buy.

Answer 6

Although that might be nice to ban violence in movies i don't think that would help any because it's rather selfish to blame the movie industry for actions that people tend to take. And it's up to the individual to distinguish the difference between a violent movie and then trying to go out and apply it to their daily lives. People need to take responsibility and realize that it's a movie not an excuse to go out and commit a violent act or crime.

Answer 7

I watch violent movies, play violent video games and listen to violent music but I am not about to go out and kill people. These things have nothing to do with if he was going to do this or not. He would have killed all those people weather or not he has ever seen a violent movie in his life. The crazy people don't need things to blame their actions on, he killed all those people not a movie.

Answer 8

OK, then no movies about war can be allowed, even historical ones. No movies about the WTC attacks can be aired, because there is violence. No movies about Kennedy's assasination, no movies about historical events that were violent. I've seen violent movies and I've never murdered 32 people. Blaming the movies is like saying that music causes suicide - its nonsense. Cho made a decision - HE is the one to blame, not a violent movie - that is not logical.

Answer 9

Yes. Killer learn from a lot of places including moveies. Movies learn a lot from real life.

Answer 10

Yes, because obviously there was no such thing as violence until movies depicted it.

Sort of makes you wonder where they'd have gotten the idea for it from if it didn't exist before, huh?


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