Violent movies and television shows have been popular since the 1960s. Westerns and Police shows have kept us entertained with gunplay and car chases. Movies and television shows has become more violent over the years. Politicians, like Al Gore and Bill Clinton, have officially asked the producers and television stations to tone down the violence in their products and try to have more family orientated messages. Ratings and advisories have been introduced to play a role in viewing decisions. Many studies have concluded that the violence shown on television and the destruction portrayed there, has lasting negative effects on those young adolescents who view it. Violent images on television, as well as in the movies, have inspired people to set spouses on fire in their beds, lie down in the middle of highways, extort money by placing bombs in airplanes, rape, steal, murder, and commit numerous other shootings and assaults. Over 1,000 case studies have proven that media violence can have negative affects on adolescents. It increases aggressiveness and makes them less sensitive to violence and to victims of violence, and it increases their appetite for more violence in entertainment and in real life.
             Violence on television often is disconnected from real consequences. Television violence is clean (lack of blood, minimal suffering, invincible cartoon characters). The use of violence on television is rewarded frequently. On television there is a clear description between the good guy and the bad guy, unlike real life, in which there often are indistinct boundaries between good and bad. On television the good guy gets recognition, material reward; the bad guy suffers and is made to look weak or stupid. The heroes may have good values, and the message may be pro-social, but it is conveyed in ways that make violence seem justified. Violence on television also may be humorous. The movie Home Alone, which has been shown on network television,...