Sex,Drugs And Rock And Roll

14 Pages 3590 Words

c. A poll taken after the incident showed that 80% of Americans felt that the Internet bore some of the responsibility, and that 46% though it was the likes of Goth bands like Marilyn Manson and KMFDM who told the boys to do these things. The call for censorship was let out, with Senators rushing to finish new proposals and legislations, and special-interest groups boycotting just about anything they could find. Every log and stone was to be overturned in this search for the true culprit, and everything became suspect. Yet, with all this searching, everyone seemed to overlook a few pieces of information; a study, done by the FBI in 1998, which showed that the violent crime rate for that year fell 7%, bringing it to it’s lowest levels since the Second World War. Also overlooked were studies showing that only 1-9% of a child’s variation in aggression can be attributed to exposure to media violence, hardly enough to make them desire to murder their peers (Freedman 194), and while the popularity of such things as videogames and the Internet had...