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Recent events, featuring shootings by police, shootings of<\/em> police, children shooting themselves, parents shooting children, and, just in general, a whole lot of shootings, makes me ask, why are we so violent in the United States?<\/p>\n

It’s not the guns\u2014or, rather, not\u00a0just<\/em> the guns that you can find in around a third of all US households. I suspect it may have something to do\u00a0with the culture of violence we invite into our homes every night.<\/p>\n

I just took a look at the prime-time TV schedules<\/a> of the five major networks for 2015-16, and, depending on how you want to count it, I see that of the roughly 90 hours of prime-time TV available each week, you can watch a show that features crime or\u00a0violence as a regular part of the show during something like 39 of those\u00a0hours.<\/p>\n

Sure, the numbers of both prime-time hours and violence-based shows fluctuate throughout the year, but the ratio remains relatively constant: roughly\u00a040%<\/strong> of the network prime-time schedule consists of violence based shows.<\/p>\n

Gun control isn’t the answer. Censorship isn’t the answer. I don’t know what is, but it does seem that we have\u00a0a violence-addicted culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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