"Make my day" and all that goes with it...

[fadedrose]

I think books and movies are a leading cause of gun disease, moreso than video games because the games are mimicking the more popular media.

Authors and movie-makers need to be made aware that sick people think this stuff is cool and the movies are showing them a way out of their problems.

Was Clint Eastwood's chair empty cause he shot the guy? Figuratively, he did.

But we're a young country. Just barely out of fighting a revolution to gain freedom, a civil war to gain a different kind of freedom, and the population was armed to the teeth. Luckily most guns are used by folks on their own property and are not assault weapons or even for protection, but are used for hunting, not for fun but for food.

Authors and movie-makers need to examine their role in creating the madness we now have in our culture.

[Not Me]

1. "Gun Disease"

like.

[Fresh_Start]

2. Do you realize who few people actually read book?

But I think it would be great if films showed people using guns as wusses with disgusting personal habits.
And what the heck, make the guns pink with purple flowers and the men wielding them afraid of their own shadows....which would not even be typecasting.

[fadedrose]

3. Most movies are adaptations of books . . . nt

[KittyWampus]

4. I would agree if you pointed to society as a whole in all it's parts and not just tv/movies

A grossly unpopular stance on DU but that's where I stand.

TV, movies, video games, music.

It is cool to be a gangsta.

Problems are solved at the end by someone pulling a trigger.

We changed how people think about drunk driving, smoking, spousal abuse, civil rights for all.

We need to change how we think about gun violence and violence in general.

[fadedrose]

5. OP doesn't mean to suggest cure, but just relief . . .

Many factors contribute to gun violence. But loads of people, some sane even, watch the shoot-em up stories available on multiple stations at all times.

Cop/FBI/Spy/War books/movies showing the wrongness of violence are not readily found and should be and I know with certainty that feelings toward gun violence will change.

[KittyWampus]

6. I would prefer to see culture and artists embrace "the rightness of peace", if you can see

what I'm saying.

Offer an alternative. A positive shift rather than focus on negativity you want to change.

I think we largely agree though.

I wish more of the conversation on DU was about changing our collective mindset.