January 3, 2013
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Violent media poisoning nation’s soul, says moron
There’s no comment section I can find on Seattle PI, so, here’s what I emailed in response to the imbecile who wrote this pathetic claptrap:
If violent media is “poisoning the nation’s soul”, then why is violent crime roughly half what it was in 1991? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#Crime_over_time )
Games and movies and TV are more violent now than in 1991, we agree — and violent crime is *dramatically* lower, despite the economic problems that often cause an increase in crime.
It’s funny you don’t mention this, but you DO mention Dave Grossman. Let’s see, 14 years ago, we had a homicide rate between 6.8 and 5.7, as the 1998 figures aren’t in the chart I’m referencing. In 2010, as you see, we have a homicide rate of 4.8. This means Mr. Grossman’s predictions are proven wrong, and it takes <1 minute to find this out — but you fail to mention this inconvenient truth. Why is that?
