From 1979 to 1989, the firearm homicide rate for persons 15-19 increased sixty-one percent. Male youth in the U.S. are more than five times as likely to be victims of homicide as to youths in many other developed countries. The violence in many entertainment programs has increased to over seventeen percent. The violence in entertainment today is affecting society as evidenced by the content of the material, the increase rate of violence, and the reluctance to deny access.
             Many people acknowledge that entertainment can effect people in an aggressive way but others may feel it is for pure enjoyment. In "The Violent Mind", Hyde and Forsyth explain that a society grown on television that consists of endless violence, it is unbearable without becoming violent ourselves (147). Children who spend a countless number of hours watching people enforcing physical harm to one another, its practical that they grow up to do likewise. Our society has become more violent since the rise of entertainment therefore, it must be the entertainment that makes us violent. Time magazine says, lessons in school can be undermined by today's popular culture; messages that blare from stereos, televisions and movie screens amount to a second education for the young ("Our Violent Kids" 55). The entertainment media has played a powerful role in the formation of values. Today's adolescents unlike earlier generations are receiving an enormous amount of glorified violence that they tend to mimic. To prove that entertainment was a tremendous factor of violence the Tribune News Service gives us an overview of what we had to witness about the Littleton, Colorado massacre ("Popular Music's Influence on Teens" 411K). The two boy killers were considered social outcasts, and were preoccupied with the violence presented in the media, music, and video games. They were also fans of the shock-rocker Marilyn Manson; amo
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