Does media violence cause social violence?

The media can include television, movies, music, internet, video games, ext. Please include evidence if you can.

Does media violence cause social violence?
There have been quite a few cases where juveniles have blamed video games or movies for their acts of violence.





Personally, I think it does affect a small minority of people, causing them to go beyond their normal boundaries and commit crime. Others just use it as a scape goat to validate their criminal behavior.





Great question.
Reply:I'm not so sure it causes it, but I do feel that it certainly desensitizes people to it's ill effects.
Reply:Yes.


When little horror chucky and the were-wolves were learning and mastering in communicating with the idiot box in planet of apes.


Expose they could no longer differentiates between fantasy and reality or ghostly stories in planet of apes.


When it were just a movie that those actors woke up go back and work the next day in planet of apes.


Expose they were living in misery with communication problems with misinterpretation, miscommunication, communication failures and communication break-down that ended up with violent death when they did not mean to hurt the victims but woke up in the slammer and found that they had self destruct themselves in "25 minutes" in planet of apes.


While we blindly threw away the key and lock them up for good until the slammers all over were running out of space in planet of apes.


The blunders and slip-ups with human errors in the creation of living human kind into mankind of intelligent design with total loss of our creator's universal gifts of life vital for their survival and advancement of themselves in planet of apes.


The misery which could not be trace or solve by science or mathematics in planet of apes.


When artificial intelligence was created by living human kind in planet of apes.
Reply:i think it can i play runescape( www.runescape.com) and it makes me pretend i have a sword and am killing things all the time......