Why is it so hard for you guys to tell the difference between fiction and reality?
Fiction breeds reality.
No, it really doesn't.
Really? Then why is almost everything we have today originally started out in fiction many decades ago. The point is that Hollywood SELLS violence. Every action movie from the Marvel Comics to Batman to Teenage Mutant Turtles is based on
graphic violence. If you can't see how this affects children, how graphic video games affects them, then you have some real cognitive denial issues!
I've read quite a few peer-reviewed psychology articles that explicitly disprove your point.
But I'm sure it's comforting to have something to blame.
Then you should keep reading Doc until you get to the ones that support what I say. Who knows, you might even come across one of the ones I wrote myself on Applied Psychology. It isn't just violence in movies and on-line games. It is violence in the homes, and that doesn't even need to be physical violence, but merely emotional, then there is the violence in the world, most ESPECIALLY the violence in the schools, perpetrated on children by the schools themselves. I have about a HUNDRED articles on it I can send you! The school gets away with it under the euphemism: "Zero-Tolerance."