Pulling the plug on kids and violence Study confirms obvious:
less television = less violence Lt. Col. Dave Grossman AFA
Journal, October 2001 Edition How many kids were killed or
injured in school fires in the U. S. in the last five years?
Answer: Zero. Yet we do fire drills and have alarms and
sprinklers for something that is only an infinitely remote
possibility. How many kids were killed or injured in school
shootings in the U. S. in the last five years? In 1998 alone,
according to the U. S. Secret Service, there were 35 murders,
and almost a quarter-of-a-million American children “seriously
injured” by school violence. The possibility of your child being
killed or injured in school violence is small, but it is
thousands of times more likely than the possibility of a school
fire, and we have the moral obligation to do at least as much
prep for a shooting as for a fire. So what can we do to reduce
school violence? Convince kids to turn off the TV! In July,
2000, a joint statement was made to the U. S. Cong