I was walking to school on a typical Tuesday morning, walking along Marconi. Normally I wouldn't dare walk down that street alone, but it was quicker, and I wanted to get there as quickly as possible. I wasn't really thinking about much, but when I looked up, I saw a young boy. He didn't smile, but held up a gun and pulled the trigger.
It was a toy gun, but I'll never forget that split second where my heart stopped, and that moment where I thought I was going to die.
This is just one of the examples that child violence is growing. The fact that a boy thought it would be funny to pretend to shoot someone is frightening, especially to someone who witnessed it firsthand. No doubt that boy has seen something similar on a television show, and thought it would be funny to do in real life.
I chose this article because it gives evidence that media violence is affecting young children. The seemingly harmless acts shown in cartoons (the characters being shot or falling from enormous heights, then simply popping up again) aren't so harmless when someone actually gets hit by bullets. This needs to be nipped in the bud before it can escalate into more dramatic problems.
http://www.lionlamb.org/media_violence.htm
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