If TV violence depicted real life, a gun shot wound or a knife in the stomach wouldn’t scare as many people as they do. A good example of this was the assassination of President Reagan. TV has taught most people to think that when a person is shot, that person would clutch the wound, cough blood out and collapse because of all the pain. But in real life and in the movie depicting the assassination of President Reagan, President Reagan did the opposite. Only after “complaining of a vague chest pain and taken to the hospital did President Reagan discover his wound. Medically proven, a gun shot can only kill instantly when the bullet is shot at a small area at the base of the brain” . Otherwise, a gun shot victim in real life would be seen moaning and groaning from pain and asking for a doctor. The most real-life violent program children have ever watched on TV before is probably a boxing match. In order to have children understand the message of how cruel violent behavior is, TV should show them what real injuries look like from fighting or being stabbed with a knife.

Children should see how dirty, painful, bloody and disgusting violence can be and how violence only makes problems worse, not better. After all, “in some parts of the world where children do not have computers and do not play video games, engaging in real fighting, throwing stones at each other, and getting injured on a daily basis is children’s play” The TV violence debate has been around ever since the TV was invented; politicians, humanists and all other kinds of activist groups have spoken out publicly against TV violence. But have we ever seen doctors give scientific proof that TV violence produces violent people? Have we ever heard of doctors stating that watching TV violence trigger nerves in the brain to cause violent actions? The statement linking TV violence to violent behavior in children is a “political one, not one based on any conclusive, scientific evidence”. Jonathan Freedman, a professor in the University of Toronto Department of Psychology, stated that some studies do suggest a link between TV violence and violent behavior in children, but that “the majority of them [studies] do not.