Report RE: superhero and gun play

Original Post

by: mickey

Julie , what a really interesting issue, you bring up Some super hero's still used a little force, superman / spider man / etc even though we used to love them as kids ourselves , Hero's . my gosh im sure you could write books on this issue. Why do children get hooked on a superhero, look no further than the tv media, newspaper adverts radio airplay adds, Oh yes and the main one, indirectly, the parents . Let me explain my comments, The media advertise so called super horeos , The child gets hooked, so to speak, Mom can i have, Mom i want, then the parent gives in and buys Child A, the hero products, DVD etc. After this the child is hooked on super heros (SO Called) so called SUPER heros, that clearly demonstate violence on-screen W.W.F OMG what happens in this , i would'nt allow any child of mine to watch this, and theres another point, is'nt it the parents role to edit what there little ones view on T.V Bob the Builder, seem like a nice guy , works hard and sings along the way, we are all happy, What does'nt help is the film makers , making cartoon heros intoDVD films look at the hulk and spiderman, need i say more , Lets go back in time, for us oldies, do you recall the atari 2600 , with space invaders, dig dug, PcMan oh my life , i love PcMan ,the games of today , well god sake, they come with a 18Certificate, do young children play these games, you tell me, but i guess so. As for gun's again with todays culture, you could write a book on this subject, in the 80's you never heard of gun's drugs, people being stabbed, right here right now, just turn on the news, to see what youngster is the latest knife crime victim. This is a tough one so i hope some one posts on this subject, but to me, i would like to know this--- Parents buy play gun's for children (WHY) Is it the children watching  films on T.V with Gun's in them, Even emmerdale as had gun's in the show, emmerdale and east enders, I could run off at least one hundred films here and know that have guns in them and shooting, HERE COMES THE (MY) VIEWS i would guess SOME parents really dont care what there children watch, So they watch, lets say Old re-runs of the A-Team (EXAMPLE ONLY) look at the guns in that, mommy i want a gun , A child only needs to watch SKY NEWS to see guns , the gaza conflict . look within the last twnety four hours because of prince harry , being a complete racist, the news showed him with a machine gun, a child watching this, well may be he just may want one from santa, then again may be not, but the fact (FACT) is the child as seem it, the message may have got to the brain of the child, gun,gun,gun. With todays culture of gun / knife crime as silly as this may sound, doe the shops need to take them off the shelves , you tell me, but i think so, will the shops do this (UMM) what ever, i hope this helps and all the other comments to follow, this should be a interesting issue, 

Report Comment