Public_Enemy_Number_One

Public Enemy Number One In Public Enemy Number One, Mike Males says, “America, from Michael Medved to “Mother Jones,” has discovered the real cause for our countries rising violence: television mayhem, Guns N’ Roses, Ice-T, and Freddy Krueger.” This is a very strong statement. Placing all the blame for society’s problems on these factors is very risky. Television, for example, does have some excessive violence. The fact that Tom and Jerry, run around throwing dynamite down each others throats, and dropping anvils on the others heads. This is nothing compared to the violence that occurs on the news everyday. Children know the difference between Tom and Jerry and real life. We know that Tom and Jerry aren’t really hurting each other, that they aren’t reality. They are cartoons. You can’t really paint a tunnel on a wall and run through it, children don’t believe this. Why would they believe that they could blow someone up and not hurt them' While the school shootings on the news, are so real, it is hard to believe. Many television shows have positive messages about life, and how to deal with growing up. In a recent episode of 7th Heaven one of the children’s friends, Simon, music, people, real, children, blame, violence, believe, television, parents, society, problem, positive, one, movies, world, very, tom, mike, males, life, know, jerry, fact, each, don’t, blaming, been, aren’t, america, violent, told, through, think, themselves, teenagers