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Comment Fact or Fiction!?!?!?! (Score 1) 839

I am reading this article and posts today, while my five year old son is watching cartoons. Mind you he was given these cartoons for X-mas, (sorry I celebrate the commercialized version) from "Santa". In one of the cartoons a group of people, along with a bird, are shooting, with shotguns, at a young girl that came into their house. She begins to dance to avoid being hit by the ensuing barrage of bullets. So in approximately 12 years from now my son could conclude that anyone can "dance" their way to safety, due to him watching this cartoon, if television was taken away from him and he got angry and got a hold of a shotgun. Does this accurately sum up the thought process of this teen? IT'S NOT THE GUNS IT'S NOT THE GAMES!!! It's the involvement of the parents with the children teaching them the fact's of life and death. The cartoon is Betty Boop and it was created in 1939. It doesn't matter what kids are seeing now a days our Grandparents saw the same thing just not as graphic or even in color. Did the gray scale used help separate that reality and fantasy for them??? Without a proper foundation to build reality on then kids will set their own reality. And if the only thing they have is violent mediums to build that reality on then I can see how this teen could say he did not know they would not re-spawn. But during his early years someone missed something to help him not be delusional.

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