Is Entertainment to Blame for School Violence?

What do Pearl, Mississippi; Paducah, Kentucky; Jonesboro, Arkansas; Springfield, Oregon; and Littleton, Colorado all have in common? They are all names of towns in which school shootings have taken place. These events captured the headlines across the country, hours of news coverage, and the attention of millions of people. People may ask themselves who or what is to blame for this violence. Many people ask if entertainment alone is to blame for school shooting, or if it just contributes to it, or if it is not to blame at all. We must find out the cause of school violence to terminate the problem.
In the past five years there has been a chain of school shootings that has intensely affected the nation. This chain has made it obligatory for our nation to examine what causes teenagers to commit these horrific crimes. President Clinton assembled a meeting of entertainment executives to discuss the role of entertainment in causing violent acts, and ordered a Federal Trade Comm...