Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill : A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence |  | Authors: Dave Grossman, Gloria Degaetano
Publisher: Crown
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ISBN: 0609606131
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Publication Date: October 5, 1999
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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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 A Virus of Violence June 8, 2009
Team Wrinkle (Crawfordville, Florida USA)
This book should be required reading for every parent. Lt. Col. Grossman associates the "virus of violence" with the video games and violent movies viewed by the children. He points out that the training from t.v. our children receive begins at 18 months, and spans to 18 years. He likens t.v., video games and movies to a training simulator, much like NASA uses to train pilots. Eye opening! a must read!!!!!*****
A Persuasive Book for Parents June 6, 2009
James A. Mulick (COLUMBUS, OH United States)
This is a superb and sobering book. It presents the case that so-called first person shooter computer games can serve as sniper training for youth in the general population. As a psychologist and professor of pediatric psychology, I was fully convinced. Of course, not every child hooked on video games of this kind will commit a crime, but that some are made more likely to do so, I have no doubt at all. Read it if you have kids or would just like to have a sane society in which to live.
Interesting May 21, 2009
Robert Kulchar (Gulf Coast, Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was an eye opener. It makes sense. It states fact and makes you think. Good reading.
A lot of nonsense; but what if it's true? January 9, 2009
Anthony Gunn (Australia)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
These are big claims that Grossman is making. There are a lot of people protesting against his book. Why? As a parent myself, we parents have a vested interest in tv and computer games for kids. They make fantastic babysitters. With studies showing that parents' anxiety levels are rising in regards to their children being kidnapped, murdered, raped, injured, death by misadventure, drugs, teen pregnancy, joining gangs etc, parents are becoming more inclined to want to keep their child safely tucked away within the family home. The question to be is asked is that by attacking video games, are we really attacking the modern day babysitter? I'm guilty for using the tv to look after my kids while I can have some freedom (they are watching TV as I write this review). I"m not sure what the answer is. What I can say is that Tobacco companies have been able to successfully argue, for some time, that smoking doesn't cause cancer, because they have a vested interested in keeping people smoking. Is this the same with parents and video games? On the surface it could be argued that Grossman is talking a lot of nonsense. But what happens if it's true?????
"I watched all those shows and I'm not VIOLENT" rethought . . . December 29, 2007
C. Campbell (TEXAS, USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
"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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